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Ok that solves the mystery which shops open 9-5 weekdays while I'm at work. I thought they are just retirees, students, and stay at home…

Wage rise is ok as long as productivity rises as well. Unfortunately Australia's productivity is a flat line last 10 years. And looking at…

Nah, there is no unethical in tax minimization, it's just fiscal tactics. Lets say you accumulate 2 months of annual leaves and want to…

Bought one before COVID and it's still working. However while watching movie from streamio is so dark that sometimes I don't see anything.…

Or each year sell 20% of your property to your niece to take advantage of lower brackets. So each year you only have to pay 3k for CGT if…

Ok, so if I visit Costco 5 times a year, I would : buy membership, buy 5 gift cards 20each using that membership, then cancel the…

OP basically does not want all of the headache of maintaining the property while letting his nieces staying for free. One option is to add…

Don't forget increasing council rate and reducing bin size, wtf

I'm paying for lotto subscriptions, I know... 😢

The more I visit a location/country, the least fav it becomes...Based on that concept, Australia is my least fav destination😜 Sometimes…

Ok guys wait for me for tomorrow's topic : "30 mil dilemma ..." 👌👌

In a 10 pieces box, I got some pieces as small as half of 2 fingers 😮‍💨

What did he do? How long did spend his time finding the issue ? And finally how much did he charge you ? And where are you btw…

Spewing credits for Labor delivering surplus is abit of BS and I feel like Im obligated to say it : it's because of recorded commodity…

Australian household inflation-adjusted real disposable income felt 8% (Mar-2024) compared to Mar-2022 : this is the worst among 20 OECD…

I can relate to OP. This is not about fair or unfair. This is about the balance between safety and the increased cost on the road. If…

Seeing how everyone wants a sub 10$ meal, I wonder how shops survive ? Rent, utilities, minimum wages ... all increase but we all want 10$…

When you need to fix the car asap to get it on the road. You don't wanna to wait a week for online order to arrive while the car is sitting…

Does Australia have unemployment problem ? Last time I heard the RBA did not lower the interest rate because unemployment was below 4%…

Feeling obligation to say I'm not a fan of Musk or Trump. But where are you when China slapped tariffs on Australian wines, coal, etc... a…

Food. Leftover food from work. They would throw it away anyway so there was one time I brought home a tray of wings and drumsticks, lol.

Care to share the sources ?

Interesting... when I vote, I vote for a party, esp the party's ideology, not a person. The big gov concept never sits well with me…

The explosive increase in public jobs under Albo is actually because he's converting contractors and labor hire people to per employee. So…

What you are saying is purely conjecture. It might or might not happen when cutting publix jobs. In fact, if gov becomes "economic…

The question now is if minority gov better or worse (than now) ?

That one bad example but is it the norm? I'm in tech and we have lots of capable permanent employees. But for areas we do not have…

To be fair: removing a toxic+unproductive permanent employee is a PITA and cost as much (if not more) than contractors. It's actually…

So why don't we have independent entity to audit government spending like a listed company ?

Btw, there are more than 41000 public servants receiving pensions of more than 75k per annum