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Keeping up with your mortgage repayments might soon get harder. Not only is the Reserve Bank likely to raise official interest rates sometime this year, but other costs like petrol, food and even coffee seem to be getting more expensive.
Date Time Share With Sydney lockdown to be extended, Federal Government must urgently heed NSW Treasurer’s call to help those with least With the Greater Sydney lockdown expected to be extended for another month today, ACOSS is again urging the Federal Government to extend the lockdown Disaster Payments to lift incomes for all without paid work to at least $600 per week, including those with the least – people trying to get by on social security payments or with no social security at all. As the NSW Treasurer has written in The Daily Telegraph today: “First, the Disaster Payment exclud...
"Oh, you're looking different this year." she says. These experiences have been mine once or twice, and I know I’m not alone. Queer folk have sat in the discomfort of family gatherings for a long time - funerals, weddings and the ‘Season to be Jolly’. We know the lingering stares, questioning and outright rejection that comes with being queer at Christmas time. It isn't right, but often the alternative is sitting it out altogether. It doesn't matter if you're pretending your lover is just a roommate (and an orphan), or you aren't spending the occasion with them at all, it stings the hea...