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Jan 14, 2014 9:39:27 GMT 10
Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jan 14, 2014 9:39:27 GMT 10
Hi all. Sorry I've been quiet the last couple of weeks. Been chillin' and enjoying the nice weather (it's been nice here in Canberra, anyway)
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Jan 22, 2014 9:14:35 GMT 10
Post by angra on Jan 22, 2014 9:14:35 GMT 10
Abbott shows his amazing grasp of international politics. On Syria, his profound pronouncement (whilst on a junket in skiing resort of the rich and famous, Davos...)
"Let them show they are goodies by laying down their arms."
Goodie Goodie Yum Yum!
And check Bill Oddie's 'coat of arms'.
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Jan 23, 2014 16:55:07 GMT 10
Post by angra on Jan 23, 2014 16:55:07 GMT 10
Personal beef with my bank.
My account was overdrawn this week by $100 (necessary post-Christmas expenses). Now my bank is charging me $6 a DAY overdrawn fees. They didn't refuse my overdraw, just whacked a hefty charge on it.
Can someone work out the interest rate on this? I reckon it's well over 2,000 %.
The Bank is ANZ.
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Jan 23, 2014 17:12:04 GMT 10
Post by jack on Jan 23, 2014 17:12:04 GMT 10
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Jan 23, 2014 17:22:00 GMT 10
Post by angra on Jan 23, 2014 17:22:00 GMT 10
Here's the evidence from my on-line account. Copied just now.
22/01/2014 OVERDRAWN FEE $6.00 $113.86 - 21/01/2014 OVERDRAWN FEE $6.00 $107.86 - 20/01/2014 OVERDRAWN FEE $6.00 $101.86 - 20/01/2014 ANZ ATM M*** $100.00 $95.86 - 17/01/2014 DEBIT INTEREST CHARGED $2.22
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Jan 23, 2014 17:36:17 GMT 10
Post by angra on Jan 23, 2014 17:36:17 GMT 10
Luckily the debt was cleared today when my pension was payed. Yes I'm a pensioner. It's only $18. But imagine if I had had to rack this up over a few weeks. or months.
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Jan 23, 2014 18:19:27 GMT 10
Post by jack on Jan 23, 2014 18:19:27 GMT 10
Believe it or not, $6/day is actually a fairly modest hit, considering the CUA credit union charges $15/day. According to ANZ's fees and charges, their overdraft facility of up to $1K is available for a fee of $5/month. www.anz.com.au/resources/4/c/4cc46f80457af6d8acdebeab6c2532f8/ANZPersonalAccountFeesCharges+V3011.pdf (pdf) We had the o/d facility with CUA for free over at least 10 years. Then in Sept 2009 they unilaterally began charging $3/mo. That's not bad, I suppose, but I stupidly didn't read the amended fee document closely enough and never really looked closely at the monthly statements. Thus, we paid $75 over two years for a facility that we were never likely to use. Okay, $75 over 2yrs is bugger all in the scheme of things, but I'd rather have just given it to the Salvos or someone deserving.
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Jan 25, 2014 11:44:34 GMT 10
Post by angra on Jan 25, 2014 11:44:34 GMT 10
We're buying two flags. The Aboriginal one and the Australian one, and are hanging them both up side-by-side outside our house for Australia Day.
And this isn't just to piss off the rednecks who live down our street, but to make a point.
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Jan 26, 2014 6:53:13 GMT 10
Post by angra on Jan 26, 2014 6:53:13 GMT 10
I just don't get it.
Why all the hand-wringing about Australia Day? Sure the white people have a lot to answer for over the treatment of the original inhabitants of this country, but amends can be made, official apologies given and even Abbott is talking about recognising aborigines in the constitution. There's a long way to go to be sure, but I don't see the same cultural cringe from the yanks over July 4th.
But if you want to say sane today, don't visit the right-wing blogs to see what they're are saying about Adam Goodes being Australian of the year. And don't bother with the left-wing twitter storm about Jessica Mauboy 'selling out' by singing today in Sydney.
Let her have the last and in my view the greatest say.
"I am able to celebrate Australia day and embrace the stories of survival. I want to know the stories and share them with people as well.
I have accepted that as a big part of my life, as a 24-year-old indigenous woman.
You want to help that situation, to help people heal and maybe singing a few songs and being the colour I am can help.
Let’s not be bitter, let’s be proud of who we are and being here and living so they get to tell their family’s stories to the next mob.
We’re all free and good to go, that’s the opportunity we have to grab. We have to help each other to make it better, to make it special."
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zoot
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Jan 26, 2014 15:21:49 GMT 10
Post by zoot on Jan 26, 2014 15:21:49 GMT 10
I believe the best thing we could do is change the date we celebrate Australia Day. Maybe we can move it to July 4 so that our dedicated flag wearers and flag wavers can include Old Glory and the Confederate flag (great christ on a crutch, I hate flag waving). Then January 26 can be honestly marked as the foundation of NSW, Invasion Day, or Survival Day or whatever.
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Jan 28, 2014 21:25:10 GMT 10
Post by jack on Jan 28, 2014 21:25:10 GMT 10
For the last word on the Antarctic misadventure of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy, perhaps expedition leader Chris Turney might borrow something like the following from Prime Minister Tony Abbott: On the high seas all sorts of things happen; there are winds, there are tides, there are other things that they’re focussing on. ... Even people who are the very best at their job will occasionally make mistakes - test cricketers occasionally drop catches, great footballers occasionally miss tackles.
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/28/navy-indonesian-incursions-after-wind-tide-distractions That ought to silence Turney's critics, because Abbott's winds-and-tides dodge certainly seems to satisfy his government's boosters in relation to the Australian Navy's "straying" into Indonesian waters. In these days of satellite positioning and radar, it beggars belief that navy vessels could stray so widely, on not one but at least two occasions. Regarding the Navy's Indonesian detours, my conjecture is that Abbott was terrified that any embarrassing disasters occurring in the course of those initial tow-backs might discredit his Government's policy; hence he required the Navy to go all in. The PM seemed quite sanguine today about pre-empting findings of an anticipated inquiry into the incidents. Sadly, the Government and its boosters will have no compunction about letting the Navy take the rap for supposedly "dropping the ball," while Abbott and Morrison duck for cover. Nor will any alarm bells ring in their heads for a defence service increasingly politicised and subject to the whims of executive government. 'Conservatives'? - my arse!
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Jan 28, 2014 23:29:01 GMT 10
Post by jack on Jan 28, 2014 23:29:01 GMT 10
I found this series of comments on my facebook feed strangely refreshing. D, who is the 30ish scion of a family of reflexive Coalition voters, posted an item about Abbott suspending marine parks. D: There is also a plan dredge through the Great Barrier Reef in Townsville to open a Coal Port!!!!
P: Scabbot's already done that
D: I didn't think it was a goer yet
P: I heard it was already done, I could be wrong.
D: I know the stupid plan got the go ahead, but thought there was still some red tape they had to go through... Cause if it actually goes ahead it is the most fucking stupid thing any Australian PM has ever done!!!!
P: it's to be expected from a muppet like Abbot though, there's more brains in the end of my knob than in that dumbass,
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Jan 31, 2014 14:54:41 GMT 10
Post by jack on Jan 31, 2014 14:54:41 GMT 10
Woot woot, a brand new look and feel to the old board!
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Feb 1, 2014 11:27:28 GMT 10
Post by angra on Feb 1, 2014 11:27:28 GMT 10
Dogs are good folk. And I always thought border collies a cut above the rest. Here's one amazing pooch called Nana. (Thought it time for some feel-goody stuff) www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8FfNQ_E0l0
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Feb 10, 2014 9:51:55 GMT 10
Post by angra on Feb 10, 2014 9:51:55 GMT 10
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