Last week in my post Australia’s Bulk Billing Explained and $7 GP Fee Co-payments I talked about the current Australian Government’s plan to make a visit to the doctors more expensive. There is another proposed change the government wants to introduce which will make student fees in higher education much more expensive. The government wants [...]
June 2014
It’s been a glorious day here today in Brisbane, 23°C (that’s around 73°F) and very sunny with clear blue skies. Not bad for winter. Certainly much better than it was a couple of years ago as you will see from the weather radar from back then. This though is how we prefer our bank holidays. [...]
Last week I kicked off a new series called “Cycling in…” with a post called Cycling in Adelaide: City Commute and the Hills. Now I have to make an admission at this stage, I don’t even own a bike. I did used to have one back in the UK, but it was just about the [...]
One of the main concerns for anyone considering moving to Australia, especially those who aren’t so young, is the cost of health services here. As you know, we had a federal budget not so long ago which I wrote about in my post The Misery Index 2013: a Response to Australia’s Budget. Top of my [...]
Well, it doesn’t get much more exciting than this, does is it? Actually, this is exciting, very exciting. And I’m not just talking about… The day I became a rambler Rambling, or walking aimlessly through the countryside, is something I have always associated with (predominantly) older people. It’s a good way for an older person [...]
