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This could be awesome when you see who's involved. https://www.gamesradar.com/ray-donovan-spin-off-the-donovans-guy-ritchie/#:~:text=Ray Donovan-,Guy Ritchie is making a spin-off show from one,America's best crime drama series&text=Ray Donovan%2C the US crime,creative dream team behind it.

The British Airways Killer Two parts out now.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/14/centrelink-call-centre-performance-aged-pension-claims-services-australia-new-staff

Luckily you can apply 13 weeks early. Five months is still unacceptable though.

Image it wouldn't differentiate. My mate waited 6 months last year to get his approved and it was a basic application. I haven't read the article but hard to see how anyone can defend that long a waiting period.

Nope Read it again. It's $5.00 for 365 days and you top as require. It's as cheap as chips for SMS's.

I had the same problems. If you can, get yourself an AldiMobile pay as you go sim for $5.00 and just top it up when required. With your phone taking two sim cards, it makes it even easier. https://www.aldimobile.com.au/collections/payg

Det som göms i snö AKA The Truth Will Out Bit of a slow burner but I really enjoyed it. Two series out on TPB with hard-coded subs. Detective Peter Wendel returns after a long sick leave to form a team to reopen cold cases; the team find clues that an innocent man has been convicted of murder. Sorry, couldn't find a trailer with English subs.

I reckon Thomas will have to play at least a year in a state league before any club even thinks about picking him up FJ. The PR over it would be a nightmare.

Yep A bit like the residency rules for the ATO. Everyone's circumstances are different. I couldn't imagine people who have hardly gone back to Australia, if at all getting portability straight away.

I can't see that happening TBH. Pretty sure once you have portability, that's it.

My take is when they say "former residents" they're referring to people living overseas who are coming back to claim the pension. Not people living overseas who have portability.

Yep The 2 year period is a one once off. I know two people here who have portability and have been told by Centrelink it's forever. Here's some more info. https://www.mlc.com.au/content/dam/mlcsecure/adviser/technical/pdf/age-pension-qualification-and-portability.pdf

We've all got different circumstances. Some single, some married, some married with kids. Different budgets etc. Scorecard had access to the RSL and cheap rent that most won't before he returned to Thailand. Still kicking has gotten himself cheap rent but looks as if he's staying in Oz. My biggest gripe is that you have to do it (return to Oz) if you want the pension. But it is what it is I guess.

Don't forget, still kicking isn't single, he's married. Also, why would you live there if you didn't have to? His wife owns 2 properties. Something doesn't add up.

This was tragic. Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mstyslav Chernov offers a window into the practices of conflict zone reporters and an unflinching, anguishing account of the 20 days he and colleagues spent covering Mariupol.

What a pity. https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/news-2024-angus-brayshaw-retires-melbourne-demons-concussion-impacts-exclusive/623ea7f0-4cf1-4b96-b5f5-751945d06b2c

You've previously said you're on the single OAP rate of about $1200 including benefits PF. But you say you're married so why aren't you on the married rate? If your wife has 2 properties, have they been included in the assets test?

So are you renting from a friend or family member? I find it difficult to believe you are paying $240 per week and the owner hasn't put the rent up in 7 years.

Is that State Hosing Commission? My good mate who has just moved to Thailand was paying $450 per week for an average 3x1 in an average suburb. And that was renting through a friend.

Still kicking, which is it? Last month you posted this.

This one has terrific reviews. Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.

What's going on in Melbourne land Uncle Alex? Sounds like West Coast circa 2006. AFL 2024: Melbourne footballer Joel Smith accused of cocaine trafficking The failed drugs test probe into Melbourne’s Joel Smith has taken a dramatic turn, with anti-doping investigators accusing the Demon of cocaine trafficking. See how the AFL responded. Anti-doping investigators have accused Melbourne footballer Joel Smith of cocaine trafficking in a dramatic escalation of his failed drugs test probe. After reviewing his phone, Sport Integrity Australia officials have uncovered multiple text messages sent by Smith referencing cocaine. In one message to Demons teammates last year, he ­offered them a quantity of the drug, it is alleged. This masthead has not confirmed how many Melbourne players the SMS was sent to, or the amount of ­cocaine he offered. SIA has asserted to Smith that he has violated several anti-doping rules and asked him to respond by mid-March, before it delivers a finding. The league is understood to be awaiting the outcome of the SIA probe, with the case potentially going to an AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal. Allegations and evidence could also be referred to police. The AFL put out a statement on Tuesday, after the Herald Sun revealed the bombshell development. “The AFL confirms that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) have been asserted against Joel Smith of the Melbourne Football Club under the Australian Football Anti-Doping Code,” the statement said. “Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has notified Smith that three ADRVs for “Trafficking or Attempted Trafficking” of Cocaine to third parties are asserted against him. Under the Code, Trafficking in an anti-doping context is relevantly defined to be ‘Selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering or distributing a Prohibited Substance, by an Athlete ... to any third party’...” Smith would continue to be provisionally suspended pending the finalisation of the case, the AFL said. “Under the Code, the new asserted ADRVs will be further investigated by SIA and these matters may ultimately be heard by an AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal in the coming months,” it said. Smith, 27, was already facing a suspension of two years after testing positive to ­cocaine on a game day late last season. He was initially hoping for a ban of three months after his positive urine sample was collected when the Demons ­defeated Hawthorn by 27 points at the MCG in round 23. But the ramifications for Smith could now be much more serious, with a potential four-year ban mooted, while Melbourne also faces questions. Smith’s management and legal teams ­declined to comment. A SIA spokesman said the agency would not comment on “operational matters”. One source close to the probe said Smith should not be “scapegoated” over what they asserted was a wider club issue. “It looks like they are planning to hang Joel out to dry for behaviour that is commonplace at Melbourne,” the source said. “It is not unusual for a group of young men who party ­together to share drugs. Joel might be foolish but he’s hardly Tony Mokbel. “The club should be taking responsibility for what is happening to Joel instead of blaming him in order to cover up a much wider problem. Joel is not a bad apple in a barrel of clean ones – the whole joint is rotten.” The latest of several off-field blows to Melbourne comes more than three years after former president Glen Bartlett raised concerns with the club board about its culture. Crisis talks were held with AFL commission chairman Richard Goyder and ex-league boss Gillon McLachlan, but Bartlett was forced out by the board in April 2021. The club also showed its long-time doctor Zeeshan Arain the door after he raised concerns. Demons chief executive Gary Pert recently claimed the club’s culture was “the best I’ve seen in 40 years”. His comment came amid significant concerns about Smith’s positive test and the behaviour of teammate Clayton Oliver. Star midfielder Oliver recently avoided a criminal conviction after being caught driving while his licence was suspended. A court heard he had been suspended after being hospitalised for a seizure, but he had not opened the letter to inform him. In December, Oliver’s sudden departure from a pre-season camp in Lorne led to a long absence from the club given as being for personal reasons. The four-time best-and-fairest winner returned only three weeks ago. Smith, the son of Dees high-flyer Shaun Smith, has played 42 games since he was signed as a rookie in 2016.

You pretty much said Centrelink will deduct tax as if you're a non-resident. Again, I don't think it's their job. You also said this which I think is absurd. "Perhaps Immigration tell the ATO you are a non resident and the ATO sends out all the non resident TFN's to the banks and the bank withholds the 32.5%".

I've already debated this with you repeatedly. I'm not going to go around the mullberry bush with you again and again. I've got a completely different opinion on how, if bought in, the new proposals will be enforced. At this stage, no one knows. Keep rehashing the same stuff doesn't make it right, or wrong. Let's agree to disagaree.