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You should realise that the pay is too low for them to be able to spend any time waiting.

They’ve effectively privatised it. They’ve established a non-profit company called Building Communities they they’ve contracted out building and managing “social and affordable housing” to for the next forty years. The government will still own the land that the buildings are on, but housing will no longer be managed by Homes Victoria (which itself was spun off from the Department of Families Fairness and Housing Victoria to manage public housing). It all stinks, and it’s going to lead to worse outcomes for everyone.

The Australian Wendy's is not related to the American Wendy's at all.

It was only banned for displaying a map that appears you show China's "nine dash line". That's rather contentious at the moment.

What kind of event? What dress code?

• If it’s “casual”, that’s fine
• If it’s “smart casual”, it’s borderline, but may be OK depending on the crowd
• If it’s “semi formal” or “cocktail”, it’s not appropriate
• On the other hand, if it’s a jazz restaurant, that’s absolutely perfect

Definitely not too bright.

Nothing wrong with wearing that with stockings. I wouldn’t say anything if my teenage goddaughters wore that. Tell your mum to get a life ;)

No, they made assumptions about receiving funding from the federal government and local councils without receiving any commitments: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/victoria/victoria-banked-on-getting-200m-in-federal-funding-when-it-bid-for-games-20230820-p5dxyt.html

It was never going to be affordable given how much security would cost with it split across regional areas. It was always going to saddle the regional areas with the cost of maintaining sports facilities they’ll never fully utilise.

Victorian Labor has a nasty habit of signing up for things they can’t afford, and then hoping the federal government foots the bill.

Also, this should really put into perspective how small the $5M settlement for COVID lockdown is in the scale of things.

It's a US stoner thing. There's even a movie about two stoners getting the munchies and trying to get to White Castle.

In case you're serious, the Gay Games is modeled on the Olympics, but for gay people. It's a sports competition.

Telstra has almost completely switched to a pre-paid direct debit block model. It’s very difficult to get a pay-as-you-go plan unless it’s a business account with multiple services. The way it works is:

• Pre-pay some fixed amount per month
• Includes unlimited national calls and text messages within Australia
• Includes a certain amount of “fast” data in Australia, and unlimited data throttled to a lower speed after exceeding the “fast” data allowance
• Includes an allowance of international calls to selected countries
• Additional international calls or calls to other countries require pre-paying for blocks of calls
• International roaming costs $10/day for calls and text messages, charged daily
• International roaming data requires pre-paying for blocks of data

Telstra switched to this model in the last year. Optus switched to a similar model as well.

The reason was they were having huge problems with dishonoured direct debit transactions. They’d have to try and chase the people for the payment, then disconnect them if they still wouldn’t pay. There was a lot of cost involved.

Switching to a pre-paid direct debit model makes it simpler and cheaper for them. If the transaction is declined, they cut off service immediately, and it’s the customer’s responsibility to sort it out before service will be restored. It greatly reduces risk for them.

I understand why they switched to this model, but It frustrates me as someone who always paid their bill. You can’t just leave your phone on roaming in case you receive a text message, and you need to commit to a certain minimum amount at a time for international calls rather than just paying for what you use at the end of the month.

That's not true any more. They now charge $10/day for roaming whether you use anything or not. It's getting very hard to get an actual pay-as-you-go plan any more. Everything had shifted to pre-paid monthly plans. Blame it on people not paying their bills or whatever, it's still annoying.