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Despite Australia’s skyrocketing housing prices, many homes from the hit TV show The Block are duds – failing to make a profit even years after they first hit the market.
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We spend less than most, but furry friends cost us a packet
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Complaints down but gas disconnections on the nose
COMPLAINTS to the Energy and Water Ombudsman NSW have fallen almost across the board on the North Coast.
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Australia trading cheap medicine for sugar exports: nurses
HEALTH workers in NSW warn medicine prices will rise under lopsided patent deals planned for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Can retirement really be an extended holiday?
GIVEN the choice of scrounging every penny just to survive or jumping ship to a life of comfort in your autumn years, what would you choose?
Australia’s prosperity hides undercurrent of poverty
COUNCILS of Social Service from every state and territory have called in unison for a national plan to tackle poverty in Australia.
Quarter of men buy make-up
WOMEN and men are poles apart when it comes to beauty.
Rates, high council debt a concern to ratepayer
IT’S hard to see anything changing when it comes to rates in Gladstone, and the increasing council debt is a concern to ratepayers.
Price hike today means cigarettes now more than $1 each
EXCISE hikes from today will add 12.5% to the price of cigarettes and continues the cost increases to smokers meaning many pay more than a dollar per fag.
Reader letter: High rates will push us out of our homes
A PENSIONER whose rates have risen from $788 to $1170 says the “brutal” costs are too much after previous rate rises.
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