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Savvy Senior: How to protect yourself from identity theft scams
2025-04-10 14:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Dear Savvy Senior,I am very concerned about Elon Musk and the so-called DOGE team getting access to my Social Security number and personal financial information through their government office raids. What can I personally do to help protect myself from this identity theft mess?Worried SeniorDear Worried,Its a great question! Ive been hearing from many older readers around the country who are deeply troubled by the news that the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency has been granted access to millions of Americans Social Security records that include highly sensitive personal information.The major concern among data privacy experts is what could happen if your Social Security number, bank account information or tax records somehow get leaked or breeched in all the data shuffling. If your information gets in the wrong hands it could lead to identity theft, which means scammers could use your personal information to open credit card accounts, bank accounts, telephone servic...
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The family bond that would make Zac Lloyd a very special Nathan Berry Medal winner
2025-04-10 10:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
SportRacingHorse racingBy Craig KerryApril 4, 2025 6.45pm, registeror subscribeto save articles for later.Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Of all the awards young jockey Zac Lloyd has in his sights, none would mean more to him and his family than the Nathan Berry Medal.The medal, named after the talented hoop who died in 2014 aged just 23, is awarded each year to the top jockey over the Championships at Randwick, which start on Saturday. His twin brother, Tommy, shared the first medal in 2014 with James McDonald, who has gone on to win another three.Lloyd was just 10 when Nathan died from Norse syndrome, a condition related to epilepsy. But the two had already formed a close bond.Two months before the tragedy, Lloyd was a page boy at the wedding of his cousin, Whitney (nee Schofield) and Berry, who regularly watched over him and his siblings.He was a really good man, pretty much the exact same as Tommy, Lloyd said. Both great pe...
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Economic turmoil created by Trumps tariffs will affect everything from coffee to interest rates
2025-04-10 10:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Politically, Trumps decision was perhaps the biggest intervention by a US president in an Australian federal election since Lyndon Johnson visited the nation in October 1966 to effectively endorse Harold Holt who would lead the Coalition its largest ever victory.The economic turmoil is being driven by two factors. Trumps plan upends how the globe has operated and grown since the 1940s. It also means huge financial shocks that will filter through governments, businesses and consumers.The biggest hit will be borne by Americans.The Budget Lab at Yale, a non-partisan research centre, estimates the tariffs announced this week will lower American economic growth this year by 0.5 percentage points. In the long term, it puts the permanent annual cost at between $US100 billion to $180 billion.You can see how it comes to such a large number. It reckons the tariffs on countries that supply many of Americas clothes such as Bangladesh (tariff hit of 37 per cent) will push up apparel pric...
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Comedian Matt Okine opens a cosy wine spot in Brisbanes south
2025-04-10 10:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
AdvertisementEating outFoodLocals (and their dogs) are flocking to this former post office for rare and precious but affordably priced bottles from Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Canada and beyond.Matt SheaApril 1, 2025, register or subscribe to save recipes for later.You have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Readers who follow Australian comedy might most readily associate Matt Okine and wine with his role in a sketch on Nazeem Hussains series Legally Brown.Called White Person Dancing Lessons, it was one of the best moments in the shows 2013 run. In it, Okine arrives at a secret location to learn from Hussain and Ronny Chieng the art of dancing like a white person that is, with no rhythm or grace.Its not until Hussain and Chieng make him guzzle a few glasses of red wine that he gets the hang of it.But it turns out Okine has...
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Cutting Sunshine hub would kill Airport Rail, says Allan
2025-04-10 10:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Itll leave regional passengers stranded because building Sunshine is all about making sure regional communities can connect into Airport Rail, and it sends a very loud message to the Melton community that you can forget about electrification under a Peter Dutton government because of his cuts to the Sunshine station project.LoadingState Transport Infrastructure Minister Gabrielle Williams said Dutton did not understand the significance of the Sunshine hub.It is stage 1 of Airport Rail, and what he is proposing puts all of its benefits at risk, she said.Williams said the Melbourne Airport Rail and Suburban Rail Loop were not an either/or proposition.Allan would not say how much it would cost to cancel contracts on SRL East if it could not be progressed, while SRL Minister Harriet Shing refused to rule out signing any more contracts before the May 3 federal election, adding that negotiations on further packages continued. However, further contracts are not imminent.The Victorian g...
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