Meet the oldest Air Ambulance Nurse in Australia

I just voted in the poll "Are governments doing enough to control electricity prices? Yes or no?" and I voted for the "too early to tell'. The prices have gone up while we were under the federal labor party, we need to give Mr Abbott and the coalition time to undo what labor ruined while in office. The coalition has to clean up like the Howard coalition did. We will see and I DO hope that Mr Abbott remembers his promise. 

They call it IPART; they have played a huge role in the electricity prices. The"I" stands for independent. Ha Ha. 

One should check first the insured replacement value of the car when comparing the savings . Coles replacement value for a well kept 15 year old vehicle with a very low milage is far less than NRMA and that is why there is a substantial saving . Compare apples with apples . 

I hope that this club proves to be a genuine & trusted source of information, Help us to stretch our dollars to last for our years of no income. A lot of us will not have been able to accumulate a large enough super, to provide enough pension to live a decent life style. 

Guys..Youre doing a good job. Lets look at Home and Conrents Insurance. YoY 2008 to 2009 with AAMI $794 steadily increased over the 2010 2011 2012 Now asking $1416 with no change to the property and contents What The?? By the way Ive never ever had a claim in 35 years? Whos winning here?? I recon there are many like me out there...Lets go! 

I wonder how genuine this FiftyUp club is... Why no one want to openly admit that to get Coles insurance best price one has to disclose what is best offer is ! How genuine Coles insurance is if that is the way they trying to drum up business for them self's.. To me that looks more like stilling customers from other businesses even if is done in such a low manner .. If they are so genuine and concern about what we paying with someone else they should just name they BEST price regardless who is offering what...I think this whole set up is questionable including FiftyUp Club ...they selectively pick a mail and comment which will be shown to the other members ... not right ! 

Did you know that drivers over 70 in NSW for the year 2011 (latest figures available) were involved in 3,807 crashes? Compare this with a total of 14,130 crashes for drivers aged 30 to 39. Even if you triple the crashes for the older drivers, it's still less than the younger group!! It's time insurance companies and others recognised that doing business with the oldies would be a wise move. More to follow at a later time. 

Regardless of age, people need to remember that being licenced and driving is a privilege, not a right. With licences now being issued for up to 5 years, I think that it would be reasonable for all drivers to participate in a one day defensive driving skills program as part of the drivers licence renewal process. This would have a positive effect on collisions involving fatal or serious injury and should flow on to lowering insurance, registration and licence costs. 

My take on rising power bills despite reduced usage is this. The cost of power goes up so everyone cuts the amount of power they use. This reduces the profit of power companies, which they are never happy about, so they put the price up to bring the profits back up. So what do we do? We again cut our usage and the whole cycle starts again. 

I used to think I was smart. But after contact with a lot younger people I have discovered that at age 70+ I know nothing. Particularly about driving, social behaviour, honesty and tolerance. The sooner many stores and organisations teach their personnel how to better deal with people, particularly the oldies, the better off they, their personnel and us will be.