Service NSW Update: Used Car checks, NSW Vouchers Expire,Strata Annual Reports, Home Safety in Winter & Quad Bikes Safety

 

Hello John It’s now free and easy to get the true picture of a used car’s history before you make an offer. Simply check its most recent odometer readings via our Check a vehicle registration page. You can view up to the last three previous readings for free. If a car’s odometer reading is lower than it should be when compared to the previous readings, its odometer may have been tampered with. Remember current vouchers expire 30 June If you have any current Back to School NSW, Creative Kids, Active Kids or First Lap vouchers make sure to use them before they expire on 30 June. See what vouchers you have available in the Service NSW app or in your MyServiceNSW Account on the Service NSW website. Find providers where you can use your vouchers by visiting our Vouchers page.   New vouchers We're making changes to some of our voucher programs with new vouchers available from 1 July. The Active Kids voucher program will offer $50 towards sport and recreation activities school-enrolled children either want to try or are already into. These vouchers will expire 31 January 2024. The Creative Kids voucher program will provide a $50 voucher to use towards enrolling school-aged children in creative activities such as art, drama, dance, design, coding or music. These vouchers will expire 31 January 2024 and are available if the existing $100 Creative Kids voucher hasn’t already been used. A new Active and Creative Kids voucher program will start early 2024. The First Lap voucher program will contribute $50 towards swimming lessons for children aged 3 to 6 who aren't enrolled in school. These vouchers will expire 30 June 2024. For more information, view our media release. Strata annual reports due 30 June Are you on a strata committee or own a strata-titled duplex? In NSW, all strata schemes must submit their 2022 strata annual report by 30 June. Make sure you’ve submitted yours before the required time to avoid an overdue penalty. You can submit it online via the Strata Hub, or in person at a Service NSW Centre. Home safety tips for winter From heaters and electric blankets to heat packs and hot water bottles, many of the things we use to stay warm can also quickly become dangerous. Even keeping too much warm air inside can make mould a health issue. But you can keep your household cosy, safe and mould-free by following these tips from Product Safety Australia. Start your end of life plan with what’s important today Big life events – from marriages and new homes to the arrival of grandkids – can change your life completely. That’s why they’re also sensible times to make sure your end of life documents reflect your life as it is right now. To make this easier to do, we created The End of Life Planner tool. It can help you write or update your will, funeral wishes, organ donation instructions and more, so your loved ones are taken care of. Getting home safe is what matters most Quad bikes are a leading cause of death on Australian farms. In the past 10 years, over 180 families have lost a loved one in a quad bike incident. There are steps you can take to prevent quad bike incidents. Ride smart: insist on helmets, fit a roll bar, use active riding skills and never push a quad bike beyond its limits. Visit SafeWork NSW for free information on how to protect yourself, your family and your farm.

Australia’s population booms again with post-COVID migration surge -.id Informed Decisions

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NEW ENGLAND STEAM TOUR - NSW TRANSPORT HERITAGE

 

Experience the return of steam to Tamworth, Armidale and more with locomotives 3265 and 3526 on 10—20 August!

Two former NSW Government Railways steam locomotives will visit the New England region, marking the first steam train in Armidale since 1997.

With one-way trips from Maitland or Werris Creek, plus five days of return shuttles from Tamworth or Armidale, experience the beauty and history of the NSW railways with us.

Tickets on sale now!

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IPART has released its Final Report on the review of desalinated water prices - NSW IPART

 

 NSW IPART - represents the Independent  Pricing And  Regulatory Tribunal.  For NSW residents ensure safe and reliable services at a fair consumable price for water, energy, public transport, local government and a licenced Administrator of water. electricity and gas.

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Our Father......'The Lord's Prayer'

Our Father's Prayer, otherwise known as 'The Lord's Prayer Hymn' is a prayer that may transgress one's mind to reflect on their very own life, especially sung in an upbeat meaningful way. In our world today, we seem to have a growing number of agnostics and atheists, around. The world was not just created out of nothing without a Superbeing creating it and I have every belief that simply God created the universe and other universes (if there is any) and we know how our world started in the beginning through the book of Genesis here. This book was written by Moses. I suppose this may have surprised you as it did me - I never asked who the author was and the meaning of Genesis is 'In the beginning....', which is how the Book commences.

There had to be a beginning. A beginning for us as humans and a  beginning for creating our beautiful world. And yet God had done that.

This is obviously for many reasons: from the way a person has been treated by others in a religion, by who they were previously involved with or mixing with the non-believing peer groups within their own lives, or for many other reasons.

Anyway for everyone, this post is for you:

The Lord's prayer comes from the Gospel of Matthew with a shorter version of The Gospel of Luke. So who wrote the Book of Matthew.

It has been traditionally attributed to St Matthew, one of the 12 Apostles, a former Tax Collector.

Here is Chris Brunelle's version

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. 

Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, As it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us. 

And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.

Healthy Pet Day - RSPCA - NOWRA

This is a great initiative for Pet Carers to have their pets checked up:

 

The concept of Safety in Relationships Survey - Relationships Australia

 

Relationships Australia is pleased to announce the release of our latest monthly survey. In April we explored 'relationship pressures' by re-administering a survey question from the Relationship Indicators survey we conducted last year. You can read the results from the April survey here.  For more information on the survey, you can contact the Relationships Australia national office here.  In May, we used the monthly survey to re-examine the concept of loneliness - something which has increased in recent years Click here for survey results. The results of this survey will be out shortly. In June, we are looking at the concept of safety in relationships. You can complete the survey here. Regards,  Relationships Australia national office Please let us know at any time if you would like to unsubscribe from this list.

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Videos for The 'Yes Vote' and Also An Add for the 'No Vote' for Referendum 2023

Here are some videos found that could make you decide, which way to vote for the up-and-coming referendum. Both videos are by our very own indigenous Australians.

Click here for Noel Pearson's Speech for the 'Yes Vote

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Interesting Videos On Our Federal Leaders of Parliament

 I have found these videos that portray the leaders of Australia as good human beings Leaders. What we all tend to forget is when we criticise the Leaders of Parliament, they are as human as we are. They are real people, like us.

Maybe we need to be compassionate to each leader of our country and understand where they are coming from. I always believe that a strong Opposition Leader may not be as strong as and confident Prime Minister. Yet a weak Opposition Leader may come up as a strong and Confident Leader, straight away but in time, yes they might even reach there.

Found a couple personal touch videos  and  the others are  s[eeches in Parliament:

Click here for Peter Dutton's family and more - Liberal

Click here for Anthony Albanese's on his Family - Greens

Click here for Adam Bant- Greens

Click here David Littleproud's Maiden Speech - The Nationals

IPART decisions on 17 special variation and 2 minimum rate increase applications - NSW IPART

 NSW IPART - represents the Independent  Pricing And  Regulatory Tribunal.  For NSW residents ensure safe and reliable services at a fair consumable price for water, energy, public transport, local government and a licenced Administrator of water. electricity and gas.

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WIC Act framework review - extension of submission period - NSW IPART

NSW IPART - represents the Independent  Pricing And  Regulatory Tribunal.  For NSW residents ensure safe and reliable services at a fair consumable price for water, energy, public transport, local government and a licenced Administrator of water. electricity and gas.

Yes, that's right if you want to know how costs may be going up or down, in relation to the above-mentioned areas, this is the place to understand the processes of price setting. Did you know that?

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Chifley Community Update - Hon. Ed Husic

 

Dear friend,
 
The latest round of the Local Sporting Champions (LSC) and Local Para Champions (LPC) programs is now open. 
The program provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships. 
The Australian Sports Commission will oversee the process of conducting eligibility checks and will begin assessments for all eligible applications in August 2023. 
All applications must be submitted directly to the Australian Sporting Commission via the links below:

• Apply for Local Sporting Champions
• Apply for Local Para Champions

 
Nominations close at 5:00pm on Monday, 31 July 2023.
 
If you have any questions about the grants, do not hesitate to contact the Australian Sports Commission via email on lsc@sportaus.gov.au or phone (02) 6214 1462.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Ed

.Id Informed Decisions - June 2023 Edition

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Unspoken Clues May Benefit Someone From A Mental Health Conversation - Mental Health First Aid

To me, any conversation that may be sending a shining light into someone's life is so beneficial to another person's life. And guess what you may not know that. Mental First Aid & Mental Mental Health meant nothing to me  20 - 30 years ago except that it felt like someone that wasn't normal could not cope with normal life. 

I am no expert on mental health, but I know I believe mental health is a part of all our lives. I remember when I was at school, there were high expectations to do well in our Higher School Certificate because it is what our parents wanted to do. I knew I couldn't reach a pass rate at Higher School Certificate and I thought any positive result was better than getting negative results. Maybe I should have dropped out in Year 10, but my parents urged me to do well. In the middle of moving houses from Paddington to Kingsford and then they had to commence renovations on their new house. Bloody distractions for me. I tried for the first term of year 11 to study and then gave up on the 2nd term. All I wanted was an office job and I mostly got that. Yet, I didn't blame Mental illness for that, it was part of my life. Actually, it was actually my life.

I know I wanted to play in the 2nd XI soccer team for the school and ended p to be the highest goal scorer of the team (playing right wing) at three goals for the year. I even gave up my casual job at Woolies Double Bay for it.

To me, and people may think that I'm crazy in saying this, one's day mentally includes high and low emotions second by second of life. In other words, living day to day we have to deal with all types of emotions. It seems dealing with happy emotions is easy but dealing with sad emotions, we need to know how to get ourselves out of it. we can ask everyone in the world for answers, yet only ourselves, individually will have the positive answer to get right through it.

Anyway, I believe any conversation you have with anyone is a conversation. A conversation that may prevent someone claiming it is mental illness, that would be great!

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IPART has released a draft report on our review of the rate peg methodology - NSW IPART

NSW IPART - represents the Independent  Pricing And  Regulatory Tribunal.  For NSW residents ensure safe and reliable services at a fair consumable price for water, energy, public transport, local government and a licenced Administrator of water. electricity and gas.

This is a chance to have your say on your Council's rate pegging. Share, this post if you want to.

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Could private capital resolve our housing crisis? - .id Informed Decisions

I agree. I'm actually shocked that according to our population of 25.69 Million in 2021, we have 2.2 Million Landlords and 2.9 Million renters. I actually thought it would have been around 5 Million each. And of these how much are overseas investments?

Personally, I would like to see multiple 'Tiny Houses' of villages, where one or two renters could be accommodated, allowing for the courtyard on each property,  access to great public transport, community hall and completed amenities for a very good lifestyle. I understand it is not everyone's 'cup of tea' but if private capital went into this type of property investment, there could be many benefits provided to all. Less homelessness, more properties on the rental market and a fair rental price charged.

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Solar Feed-In Tariff for 2023-24 - NSW IPART

NSW IPART - represents the Independent  Pricing And  Regulatory Tribunal.  For NSW residents ensure safe and reliable services at a fair consumable price for water, energy, public transport, local government and a licenced Administrator of water. electricity and gas.

So, here is the end results for the Solar Feed Tariffs, that you can confirm with your Solar Energy provider. See how you go with them and check if they are complying.

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