Draft Waste Management Strategy

Thinking we might go for Option 2: New Enhanced Service with hopefully 50% pensioner discount.

Council seeks feedback on its Draft Waste Management Strategy including community preferences on two hard waste collection options. In our most recent consultation with Monash residents, you told us you would prefer the flexibility of an at-call service for hard waste collection.

Draft Waste Management Strategy and Hard Waste Collection Options

AGL Electricity phone app

Android app to follow so will just have to wait...

Australia Post - MyPost

Although I've never bought a postage stamp in my life went ahead and filled out the forms and took to the local post office and got - another card. Just received e-mail from Aus Post enticing me to register for a secure (yeah right) digital mailbox. That's right, it's a DIGITAL one!



Email from Australia Post, I didn't ask for and don't need one of these.

Current electricity bill

ET pleasantly surprised that it's "only" $265 dollars.

New alliance in bid to curb power prices

A national alliance of business, community and consumer groups has been formed to back new policies to curb the rise in electricity prices.

Update: Telstra Home TV Bundle

One of the things I did back in July 2010 when I retired from work (nice) was to rationalise and consolidate all our finance stuff like banking and super, household utilities and – entertainment. After a bit of research decided to sign up for the Telstra Home TV bundle for $198/mth which includes HomeLine Reach, BigPond Elite Cable 25GB and Foxtel Platinum iQ.

Since then the bundles have been upgraded, 25GB is now 100GB,  so I jumped onto Whirlpool to see if people were getting free upgrades – they were. Rang Telstra and arranged for the upgrade to 100GB without any issues and was informed it would take 4 –5 days. That was on Saturday, today received a email from Telstra that the upgrade was complete and we are now on 100GB for the same monthly $198 – happy with that!

Sneaky smart-meter price hike on Melbourne Cup eve | News.com.au

MONEY-hungry power companies will hit households an extra $1.1 billion to install smart meters after winning approval for hikes on the eve of the Melbourne Cup.

 

The decision will lead to bill increases of about $60 a year just in meter charges, and will take the gloss off any interest rate cut tipped to be announced today, the Herald Sun reported.

The Australian Energy Regulator has been forced to back down on efforts to limit smart meter installation costs to about $760 million, between 2012 and 2015.