Sigh!  that's a 'stRay fly'!!!  :^O

"Age pensioners, along with recipients of the Disability Support Pension or Carer Payment, will receive assistance totalling a 1.7% increase in the maximum rate of the pension, with an annual increase of up to $338 for singles and $255 for each member of a couple"

Well .....thanks Julia....OH and I got a grand total of $190 extra in our pension today.

Can anyone explain this?  Will we get more next time as well, or is that it?

I thought it was only supposed to start on the 1st June....maybe it is only half the amount you will finally get?

Evening gerries.

Spend the money wisely Gilly.

 Got a letter today from the Electricity supplier.

Will be fitting a -"smart meter* soon

(at no charge)-lol.---the charges will be included

in your future supply bills.

These smart meters-mean the supplier can have your meter

read -without someone coming and do the reading.

Saving the Co money--but the user pays.

---------bend over Richo-and cop it again-lol.

Evening gerries. Spend the money wisely Gilly. Got a letter today from the Electricity supplier. Will be fitting a -"smart meter* soon (at no charge)-lol.---the charges will be included in your future supply bills. These smart meters-mean the supplier can have your meter read -without someone coming and do the reading. Saving the Co money--but the user pays. ---------bend over Richo-and cop it again-lol.

I got $190 as well.........

Richo, we have had the smart meter since last yr. and our electricity bills havent gone up.........yet.

Because we live in the hills we have a special radar thing on ours, so they can read the meter..........wish things would go back to the good old days, when utilities werent privitised. The bills more or less stayed the same.

Afternnon all

The sun is out here and the wind has dropped so I have to go and start raking the leaves again.  The backyard is covered in them.

The WORLD IS CHANGING - WE'RE FALLING THROUGH SPACE... AARRGGGHHHHH!

Well anyway that's how I feel, how about the rest of you?

Those lovely days of party lines with the phone, candles when blackouts happened... electricity never a worry - to us - we were too small... shopping done by our mothers... money earned by our fathers...

Oh what has happened?

What is going to happen over the next twenty years before some of us fall off our twigs?

T'is a worry, it surely is 😞

Ni ni all happy dreams 😉

Evening Gerries-yep Darki-have 6 and 1/2 grandies,

whats the world going to be for them in the future.............Richo.

morning all.

"they" say that the next war will start in the Middle East...the way Syria is behaving, I can quite believe that!X-(

afternoon all

Where are you all hiding ????