There was Tanawah world on the Sunshine Coast was 70's and a bit of 80's Will see what I can dig up https://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/news/backward-glance-the-sound-of-fun-echoes-through-the-years-170120
Yeah for sure, especially if the chain of measures is not clean. IE with my smart meter they know my export and pay me 2c, that then goes into the neighbours house who are on a dumb meter and they get charged 39c. I think things like that might be dark spots in the data the govt might be working off, but the retailers will know exactly how much "dark energy" (satire) there is in their purse.
Same here, charge all the batteries all the time on OVO free plan, very good in winter I'd be curious to see if they have done their homework. A small percentage sponging is no worries but if we all sponge there might not be as much excess anymore... which is fine. Also the tailers are just gonna bump their plans, in someway, ie last time AusGrid dropped their shoulders and increased their *peaks
When you say outright you have, for example 450k for a 500k apartment? If that is the case then you just need to get a mortgage for the difference and be done with it. With that much of a deposit I didn't think they would see it as much of a risk, but who knows. A mortgage will be much lower interest than a personal loan. Also have you factored in all of the extras... legals, stamp duty, etc etc.
I sense the weekend will be a symphony of lawn mowers
Yah all good questions and good responses. Suspend is great for this handheld, but as @PlasticExistence@beehaw.org mentions linux isn't great at suspend out of the box and having a very configurable embedded system like the steamdeck lumps it in this basket.
I got one of amazon.com.au in June. The price was pretty much the same as the direct conversion from USD, and it got delivered the next day. Obv a 3rd party seller but have been super happy with the purchase.
hows your balance, need some topup action?
I do like me a Wendy's burger
I think a lot of the 'customer owned' banks are usually good, they can be regional based as well. IE for Newcastle area Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent Buildng Society both have lots of branches and good customer support for local. I used to like StGeorge until Westpac took them over, went downhill after that

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