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I would never complain about the neighbors’ cooking meat/fish/fowl even though I have been vegetarian for over 50 years. However, I will, and have in the past, complained about thick acrid smoke coming from a BBQ nearby in the unit block as a result of the owner’s lack of cleaning skills. Failure to properly clean the BBQ grill/plates after use results in very offensive greasy smoke and smells that linger well after the snag, fish, steak etc have been devoured. And it is particularly offensive when that smoke gets into a bedroom! And like you Jacka, these selfish neighbours take great care to prevent their smoke from entering their own appartment – much like smokers who insist on sm oking on their balcony so the smoke does not make their own unit stink!

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And not from any country that went down the ‘Belt and Road’ investment pathway or where a country has more debt to one country for infrastructure than they can generate to repay it.

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Until and unless airlines decide to reconfigure their seating plans allowing more room per person (which means, of course, a reduction in the number of passengers they can carry with a consequential reduction in income) then people who cannot fit into a normal economy seat without encroaching on the neighbouring seats should have to buy sufficient seats to accommodate their size. Failure to do so impinges on those unfortunate passengers allocated seats next to them. The budget airlines generally have the smallest seat space which is exactly how they are able to offer lower-cost flights. This is not fat shaming or discrimination. Seat sizes are published on the airline websites and people should consult these before booking thereby avoiding embarrassment at check-in.

Having said that, people are generally getting bigger and that means taller and heavier not just fatter. And this is at the same time as airlines and other public transport continue to shave centimetres off their seat size to pack more people in to boost profitability. Eventually, any form of public transport will be unavailable to anyone over the age of about ten.

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Most of us will remember when smokers were corralled at the back of the plane. This is no different. People travelling with kids 12 and under should be placed in a single section whether completely partitioned off or not. This would have benefits for parents/carers of said kids by not having to endure pointed comments or rolling eyes of other passengers, the kids will all be together and entertain each other, the cabin crew will have all the kids in one place for feeding, provision of games and colouring books, and the adult travellors with kids would have the support of all the others traveling with kids. Win-win-win I’d say.

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Once YLC outsourced the website and forum, just about all commentary ceased. It was very difficult to ‘reregister’, almost impossible for the site to remember log in details – I still have to log in every. single. time. even though I keep ticking the remember me box. Frankly it is just not worth the effort. And now you keep getting pop-up begging boxes almost demanding you take out a subscription and PAY for it, not withstanding the number of ads have increased at the same time as all the changes. It is just not worth it any more.

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It’s only an issue because confused ADULTS are making it so.

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The difference, Jan, is that schools can, and probably should, be monitoring what students are doing on their laptops which they cannot when students use mobile phones because the phones are not working through the school system. This should have been implemented several years ago. It is bit horse has already bolted and the parents must take responsibility for that. Few students would be paying for their own phones yet parents seem to think the phones are essential when the kids are already in a safe place (or meant to be) where they can easily be contacted should an emergency arise. Parents can call the school office just like in the olden days before mobile phones! I see absolutely no reason for students of any age to have their phones in class.

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Once Pfizer and Moderna vaccines became the ‘preferred’ vaccine for almost everyone, there was little call for AstraZeneca unless there had been an adverse reaction to the bivalent vaccines. This is nothing to get excited about. Likewise, the Novavax vaccine has not been widely used despite the original perception of it being more ‘natural’.

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I absolutely would have taken this further. They cannot replace a three-year-old TV and then refuse to replace the replacement less than six months later. Six months life on a ‘new’ TV is well below the expectations of a reasonable person. I would also expect a new warranty to come with the new TV, not just a continuation of the old one, which, in any case, is likely to have already expired on a three-year-old TV.

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Yes cancel the contract. China should never have been sold/rented in the first place. No foreign agency should be allowed to buy, rent, lease or hold any Australian critical infrastructure or assets including ports, airports, trains or train stations, electricity grids, agricultural land, or water rights, dams or distribution for a start.

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So before COVID, what did these people do to get their groceries? Funny how interim solutions to temporary problems are expected to always be made permanent at little or no cost. Can’t those people you mention go back to what they were doing before?

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The letter says “there are few hackers active on it” (your network). That being the case, no need to worry and no need to keep a ‘secret’ or hand over any money!

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You would like to think it was closed down because, with such low unemployment, it was no longer necessary. Sadly I seriously doubt this was the case. It is just another example of the Labor Government dismantling everything the last Government did. In my view, if someone is taking unemployment payments it is incumbent on them to be doing absolutely everything they can to get off it and into work. There will always a minority who are not able to work for a number of different reasons and those people need and should be supported. But unemployment is not and should not be a lifestyle choice. There has never been a better time to obtain employment in just about any sector and that includes the unskilled and uneducated. Typical Labor ideology in play here and it is you that will be paying for all this largess through higher taxes.

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More clickbait headlines from YLC.

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So many organisations and comp[anies are forcing their customers to apps these days. All very well but if you do not have a smartphone, lose it or if you do or simply choose NOT to conduct your affairs through your phone you are being excluded from goods and services. The latest for me is Vodafone. They have now removed the option of logging in through their website (rather than the app). This means that I am now forced to use the app or go elsewhere. I use Vodafone pre-pay (yes yes I know it is more expensive but I only pay for what I use – 365 days usage on calls and monthly rollover on unused data). I had to cancel my credit card and get a replacement and now there is no way to change the details with Vodafone. A complaint has resulted in nothing and no promised call back either. And this is not the only company to do this. A total disregard for sections of their customer base in my opinion. Likewise with the banks. First, they forced you into using ATMs and now they are forcing you to their apps. All well and good until there is an outage, a hack (don’t tell me it can’t happen), you are in a dead spot with no coverage (as happened to me recently just 2 hrs outside of Sydney) or your phone is lost or stolen. Then there is no access and no redress. I am so over being forced to do things then told by the same company that there is ‘no demand’ for that particular service.

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You do realise that Christmas and Easter – 2 of the most important sets of public holidays are Christian based right? That is, public holidays decided by religion. I do agree that migrants to Australia should abide by the prevailing customs and traditions. If not we risk losing them completely over time. Is this what people really want?

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The trouble with your argument Kyeho, is that Harry has NOT in fact documented anything. He has made a whole series of allegations, many of which have either been repudiated as false in facts or have not been responded to in any way. As Dr Phil says, no matter how flat the pancake it still has two sides. We only have Harry’s version of events and most of those are petty squabbles that all families have from time to time. His drug taking for example is not news, at least not in the UK. It was well known at the time that Prince Charles as he was then, put Harry into treatment and then took him to see drug rehab centres and talk to the inmates. I notice this was not acknowledged by Harry. Harry and Meghan seem to place much store on a couple of things: taking responsibility for own actions, acknowledgement of wrongdoing and forgiveness. Precious little evidence of any of these things by the two of them.

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I don’t care what colour they are as long as there is an equal number that takes cash as those that take cards. That is the problem, not what colour they are.

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But that is part of the problem Lynda, people just turning up ‘for a chat’. There are amenities and venues for this social service that are better equipped to deal with loneliness or whatever is causing GP appointments ‘for a chat’.

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Canada is the (only) other country that this rule applies to and it is blatantly unfair. One solution to johninmelb issue of the UK being broke, would be to stop paying ‘pensions’ to working holiday and other short-term residents, then redirect that money to other ex-pat pensioners who contributed for their whole working life.

And in case there are people who think ex-pat Brits are double dipping getting both a UK pension and the Australian aged pension, they are not. Whatever they receive from the UK is deducted from the Australian payment. So ultimately, Australia will pick up the tab for the underpayment of UK pensions over time. And the full UK new state pension is currently about 185 pounds a week approx $336 a week (the old basic full pension is just 145 pounds a week approx $260 a week) and you have to factor in currency exchange rates and bank fees which means the actual amount received may be much less. Compare Australia at $936 for a single person a fortnight – about $130 a week more than the UK pension, and still people say it is not enough. Consider those ex-pat pensioners who do not qualify for an Australian pension for whatever reason. They are particularly disadvantaged by this discriminatory and arbitrary rule of freezing the pension at the rate in place at the time of claiming.

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