Heckler on Banks
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Report card that 'could do better'
Heckler WRITING reports for the end of a school year used to be one of the more bizarrely enjoyable duties a teacher had. Certainly it was onerous and time consuming but it was also cathartic.
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Another snappy customer - bank on it
Heckler TWENTY-FIVE years ago I started a cheque account with a small bank, new to the Australian market. They gave me a $10,000 overdraft limit and paid interest on any credit amount.
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Can't bank on straight answers
Heckler How do banks make obscene amounts of money? I'll tell you one way. Seven days ago I went to the three ATMs at my (insert well-known name) bank at Bankstown to withdraw money - just the usual...
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An Olympic legacy from which we can't escape
Heckler WITH the London Olympics almost upon us, it's only a matter of time before we see articles in the press about Sydney's legacy from Homebush 2000.
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Nice card, pity about inquisition
Heckler YOU really don't want a Health Care Card - believe me.
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Last post for something we rely on
Heckler SO THE powers that be are closing my post office. They can't justify it being there any more and they say it's unprofitable. Well, of course it's bloody unprofitable, it's a post office.
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Where's my silver lining?
Heckler WE'VE almost completed the time-consuming process of putting solar power on our roof and I have become very anti-cloud.
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Effronteries of scale
Heckler ONE day recently the chief executive of a large company was on TV telling us that his corporation would terminate 1000 jobs in order to improve "efficiency and service to the public".
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Stop buying, start saving
Heckler I'M GOING out on a limb here, but should we really be calling talking about a housing affordability ''crisis''? Or is it more the case that people can't amass a deposit because they are too busy...
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Don't Gogh: it will drive you insane
Heckler I HAVE always been a firm believer in Jean-Paul Sartre's saying that ''hell is other people'', which is why I don't like going to places where there are lots of people.
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Thieves did not cash in
Heckler Last week our family was rudely jolted into the modern world when three vehicles were broken into as they sat unlocked in our driveway in our sleepy, semi-rural suburb in north-west Sydney while we...
