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Vic Labor is destructing faster than the Libs. Two ministers have quit effective immediately, leaving not only the Cabinet, but politics entirely. And the Suburban Rail Loop might be cancelled.

Things keep moving faster and faster. I got a call this afternoon saying the tentative date for my cochlear implant surgery is Sept 19.

Thanks mate.

I am having a battle with an insurance company who are robbing me blind. About 45 years ago, just after moving from Sydney to Melbourne and buying a house, my sons were about to start school and my daughter was born. My wife suggested that I should get life insurance to protect her and the kids if anything happened to me. There was a company in Gippsland that offered a Private Pilot's Insurance product, as most companies steered away from PPL holders. I took out a policy which covered whole of life, ie, payable only on death. After paying premiums for over 45 years, and my kids over 40, and mortgage paid off, my wife and I decided that it was getting too expensive to keep increasing the policy in line with CPI and froze the payout at the figure at the time. However, despite a fixed payout, the premiums continued to increase. Then my wife passed away in 2022, so the beneficiaries are the kids. But the monthly premium is now 25% of my monthly pension, and I will get nothing back myself. I worked out that if I ceased paying the premiums and banked the amount with no annual increase, I would save the payout amount in 7.25 years, even less with interest. I explained this to the insurance company, saying I have only the pension as income and rely on it to live. They said they had to keep increasing the premium to pay for additional costs due to my aging. I told them that was utter bullshit as they acknowledged that the payout was frozen. They said I could cancel the policy, but I have asked them to confirm this would result in forfeiting any payout and I am waiting on their reply. I told them that while what they are doing may technically be legal, it is morally unacceptable. I said they had worse morals than an online scammer.

I downloaded some transactions from my bank account into Excel CSV's to do my tax return, but when opened in Excel, the date column was too narrow so the dates showed as ######, and the amount column was not formatted. No problem, make the adjustments and save the sheet. Except that when I reopened the sheet, the changes had not saved even though I had selected YES to the question SAVE CHANGES? Any suggestions?

I guess you're not talking about here.

Correct.

Correct. That is the last Pictogram I have, only received on Facebook this morning. Until they post more, I will use other brain teasers.

Correct.

A friend of the devil is a friend of mine. Lyrics from a song by the Grateful Dead.

A good look to start his stint as premier - first press conference in a K-Mart basement.

Wife: Have you seen the dog bowl? Husband: I didn't know he could.

You have to hand it to short people..... They can't reach it themselves.

I was at the Men's Shed and 5 or 6 phones all went off at the same time. Different alarm sounds.

Jacinta Allan served as the 49th Premier of Victoria and leader of the Victorian Labor Party from 2023 to 2026. Her tenure ended on 28 July 2026 when she resigned ahead of a leadership challenge from her deputy, Ben Carroll.