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Willing to bet it's one of those standardised tests.
Need a pen, paper, calc etc.
See [this thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/tduzqj/-/i0mbeow) where an ex employee of the Victorian Public Trustee talks about a client suicide while on the phone and the heartless way the boss handled it.
Man I thought Revelian meant pertaining to some philosopher called Revel. It’s just one of those neologistic names that sounds like a word but isn’t spelt exactly the same, like Atlassian or Google.
>acting with integrity, customer service, effective communication and delivering results
There are countless examples of them not actually caring about those things and being unaccountable when they transgress.
You will find clients who really need help and I hope you deliver, while others are clearly exploited or neglected and sooner or later you will come to that crossroad. Good luck.
r/Trustee_n_Guardian
See also [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/tduzqj/-/i0mbeow) where an ex employee of the Victorian PT talks about a client suicide while on the phone and the heartless way the boss handled it.
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Yesterday I booked a driving test in the wrong area in NSW, a place that is too far away and that I've never been before. I didn't realise until now but the test is tomorrow morning, so I can't cancel it. Is there any way at all that they will give me a refund?
Call them. You will lose your money and will have to rebook. Or go do the test. Maybe pay more attention next time. Chalk it up to experience.
The reason why you won't get a refund is that you have taken up the spot that won't be filled on such short notice. Hence the 2 day prior rule.
There is a magic way to get out of anything. Listen carefully and repeat after me: "I have cold and flu symptoms".
You used to be able to transfer/cancel it online. But this was 10 years ago.
There's an option to cancel it online, but they only allow you to cancel it two days in advance :/ which does make sense but it's an honest mistake
then id say you've either got to accept the loss, or attend the test?
You can call first thing in the morning, but if the website says 2 days, then you're out of luck
My other problem is if I can avoid the test and not be penalised further than just my payment. For example if they don't let me book another test for six months...and I have no clue if that's true
Maybe say you developed covid like symptoms overnight and they may allow you to cancel and rebook?
Whats the options on the table here?
If you can't make the test, then you cant make it. If you get banned for 6 months (which i really doubt is the rule), then you just have to deal with it.
There was a cooling off period, but i'm pretty sure it was days rather than weeks. Also, the months was probably in peak covid when you couldnt get a booking for x months.
Ohh right. Hoping for the best when I call them
I imagine plenty would be but I can't pin down which ones.
Katoomba.
In a drought, all of them.
In a properly biblical flood, none of them.
In between? Gee, I dunno... the ones that aren't on floodplains? Or the ones that aren't right on the edge of major rivers/water sources? Or the ones that are significantly above sea level?
I'd have thought a cursory glance at a map/gradient chart would tell you everything.
Lismore.
Surely it wont flood for a 3rd time.
All of them if you don't move into a house on the floodplain.
Both all of them and none of them.
It depends on the size of the flood.
Ones on hills
Armidale.
My dad lives in Dorrigo, and his town hasn’t had any issues with floods. They’re right on top of the mountain range outside of Coffs Harbour. So all the water flows down the rivers out of the town. The only thing that happens is there is the main road to the town, Waterfall Way, sometimes floods because there are a few waterfalls that flood the road, but there is another way to get around that so it’s not a massive issue.
Armidale.
Katoomba.
Look for towns that are very hilly, not sit on a major river or a river in general and not on floodplains. Avoid the coast for coastal erosion or I'd say the outskirts of Coffs harbour as it is mountainous.
Cobar's main street floods after like 2mm of rain. It's pretty funny. Also you'd have to live in Cobar.
Dubbo has a river through the middle of town, but most of the floodplain is parks and sporting ovals. Their worst on record goes a few blocks into town and still hit very little residential. There are plenty of spots there that aren't ever going to be touched by floods.
Basically anywhere can have localised flash flooding if 100mm gets dropped in a hurry. Look for spots at the top of catchment areas and away from major waterways.
You can check out the catchment map below. Generally the closer to the edge the less water has the potential to be coming past you.
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=26915bcc6aae4dc9be6fb6b5a26f1d84&extent=133.1354,-40.4649,165.5891,-25.5043
And cross reference with a topographic map to find the highest points in each catchment
https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/lrdg/New-South-Wales/
I live in NSW Central Tablelands a small town, thought I was smart checking the public records for flooding years ago when buying house nothing on record but still got caught out with minor flooding due to inadequate council storm water drain and neighbours house having inadequate drainage, now in a dispute with council & neighbour sadly
And just to be clear I mean west of the mountains. (For the most part I reckon mountain towns are safe) :)
The town at the top of Mt Kosciuszko... What'sIt'sName?
Orange, NSW
Orange, NSW
That does make sense! :)
Not for another 100 years. Surely.
Hahahaha
Have you ever been to Armidale?
It sits in a wonderful little valley.
You won't have much luck on the west because it is very flat and towns are built on rivers.
Maybe try cobar? Or lightning Ridge? They don't sit on rivers or creeks so safe bet.
There isn’t one.
Thredbo is closest, it floods occasionally.
Katoomba is still prone to localised flooding.
I have been to Armidale, but didn't know it floods.
Exactly I know people that have been flooded in upper Blue Mtns area
Thankfully rarely around the bottom end when it gt a downpour in the central basin.
For air, the basin floods with smoke every winter from inversion.
I knew it snowed sometimes. I remember. I just didn't know it flooded. I thought it was too high up.
It is not so much absolute height, but relative height and where the water flows. There is also flooding from run off and flooding from accumulating water.
Lismore floods because it is on the outlet of a large basin. So the runoff from that basin building up water as the outlet is through a "narrow" choke point.
Armidale is in another smaller basin and a similar effect happens at the bottom end of town just north of the eastern road towards Dorrigo and other places. IME, it isn't a common occurrence, but it has happened.
Flooding along the Nepean-Hawkesbury River system is mostly due to a number of choke points along the system. Someone linked to it recently.
That's interesting. I didn't know Armidale was in a basin.
This company again? How do they just keep getting away with it?!
Never mind a little human meat in there. No one would ever know.
Because this is Australia where money speaks louder than laws.
Cuz they’re rich, they probably also have friends who are politicians all around the world.
What companies do they have in their portfolio? Just in case I was considering a boycott.
Édit: Found it. There goes Hans and Primo meats plus Huon smoked salmon….
https://jbsfoodsgroup.com/our-brands
Proceeds of crime speak louder than laws....
Probably? Watch the 4 corners episode. They've got everyone in their pockets.
They bought the Huon salmon farm company in Tasmania, I shudder to think what horrors will come from that.
Also majority of beef in Coles and Woolworths.
[https://ab.co/3MSHaXF](https://ab.co/3MSHaXF)
18% over the past 2 years for rent.
Have they seen house prices over the past 2 years?
Whats next, breaking news fuel prices up 20% over the past 2 years!?!?
So is everything else.
Except wages.
G'day, I've been thinking on how to make a suggestion to council/the school about this:
The bus zone at the school is being used by parents to let kids out of their cars (orange highlighter). This is not legal (no stopping/no parking in a bus zone). There is a couple of convenient parks (highlighted in green) that the empty 12 seat busses get parked in, there are 3 or 4 of these busses, always there 10 minutes before school starts, so I think they are the OOSHcare.
The rest of that circle has houses. Many teachers park there for the day, no worries, there is also street parking further up. There is a loading zone driveway next to the gate / bus zone if the teachers have a heap of stuff to bring in that day.
There are 2 other entry's to the school (black arrows) that have their own issues, but at least we got a couple of accessible parking spots (blue highlighter).
I'm wanting some feedback if I'm being a Kevin, or if my suggestion to have a "kiss and drop zone" marked as no parking during school days would be appropriate. Thoughts?
Back when I was in primary school, they implemented the same thing. Imo, was a great change, but it’s still not a perfect solution. We had a school of ~500 kids, and the kiss and ride zone was 6 car lengths long. At the end of the day, there’d probably be close to 10 cars queueing along the street waiting for their turn to enter the kiss and ride zone.
The school ended up asking parents to register to use the zone during afternoon pick ups, and capping the number of users. The registered users were given a sign with their family’s surname on it to display in the windscreen, kids would stay seated inside the school gates until their pickup person arrived, and a staff member supervised kids getting into their family cars. If the kids weren’t sat there waiting already, the driver was asked to go around the block and line up again.
In the mornings there wasn’t ever really those issues, so anyone could use the zone (not just registered users). Morning drop offs are typically spread out over a bit of a wider time period, and there’s less child safety issues associated with dropping off than picking up.

Willing to bet it's one of those standardised tests.

Need a pen, paper, calc etc.

See [this thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/tduzqj/-/i0mbeow) where an ex employee of the Victorian Public Trustee talks about a client suicide while on the phone and the heartless way the boss handled it.

Man I thought Revelian meant pertaining to some philosopher called Revel. It’s just one of those neologistic names that sounds like a word but isn’t spelt exactly the same, like Atlassian or Google.

>acting with integrity, customer service, effective communication and delivering results

There are countless examples of them not actually caring about those things and being unaccountable when they transgress.

You will find clients who really need help and I hope you deliver, while others are clearly exploited or neglected and sooner or later you will come to that crossroad. Good luck.

r/Trustee_n_Guardian

See also [this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/tduzqj/-/i0mbeow) where an ex employee of the Victorian PT talks about a client suicide while on the phone and the heartless way the boss handled it.

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Yesterday I booked a driving test in the wrong area in NSW, a place that is too far away and that I've never been before. I didn't realise until now but the test is tomorrow morning, so I can't cancel it. Is there any way at all that they will give me a refund?

Call them. You will lose your money and will have to rebook. Or go do the test. Maybe pay more attention next time. Chalk it up to experience.

The reason why you won't get a refund is that you have taken up the spot that won't be filled on such short notice. Hence the 2 day prior rule.

There is a magic way to get out of anything. Listen carefully and repeat after me: "I have cold and flu symptoms".

You used to be able to transfer/cancel it online. But this was 10 years ago.

There's an option to cancel it online, but they only allow you to cancel it two days in advance :/ which does make sense but it's an honest mistake

then id say you've either got to accept the loss, or attend the test?

You can call first thing in the morning, but if the website says 2 days, then you're out of luck

My other problem is if I can avoid the test and not be penalised further than just my payment. For example if they don't let me book another test for six months...and I have no clue if that's true

Maybe say you developed covid like symptoms overnight and they may allow you to cancel and rebook?

Whats the options on the table here?

If you can't make the test, then you cant make it. If you get banned for 6 months (which i really doubt is the rule), then you just have to deal with it.

There was a cooling off period, but i'm pretty sure it was days rather than weeks. Also, the months was probably in peak covid when you couldnt get a booking for x months.

Ohh right. Hoping for the best when I call them

I imagine plenty would be but I can't pin down which ones.

Katoomba.

In a drought, all of them.

In a properly biblical flood, none of them.

In between? Gee, I dunno... the ones that aren't on floodplains? Or the ones that aren't right on the edge of major rivers/water sources? Or the ones that are significantly above sea level?

I'd have thought a cursory glance at a map/gradient chart would tell you everything.

Lismore.

Surely it wont flood for a 3rd time.

All of them if you don't move into a house on the floodplain.

Both all of them and none of them.

It depends on the size of the flood.

Ones on hills

Armidale.

My dad lives in Dorrigo, and his town hasn’t had any issues with floods. They’re right on top of the mountain range outside of Coffs Harbour. So all the water flows down the rivers out of the town. The only thing that happens is there is the main road to the town, Waterfall Way, sometimes floods because there are a few waterfalls that flood the road, but there is another way to get around that so it’s not a massive issue.

Armidale.

Katoomba.

Look for towns that are very hilly, not sit on a major river or a river in general and not on floodplains. Avoid the coast for coastal erosion or I'd say the outskirts of Coffs harbour as it is mountainous.

Cobar's main street floods after like 2mm of rain. It's pretty funny. Also you'd have to live in Cobar.

Dubbo has a river through the middle of town, but most of the floodplain is parks and sporting ovals. Their worst on record goes a few blocks into town and still hit very little residential. There are plenty of spots there that aren't ever going to be touched by floods.

Basically anywhere can have localised flash flooding if 100mm gets dropped in a hurry. Look for spots at the top of catchment areas and away from major waterways.

You can check out the catchment map below. Generally the closer to the edge the less water has the potential to be coming past you.

https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=26915bcc6aae4dc9be6fb6b5a26f1d84&extent=133.1354,-40.4649,165.5891,-25.5043

And cross reference with a topographic map to find the highest points in each catchment

https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/maps/lrdg/New-South-Wales/

I live in NSW Central Tablelands a small town, thought I was smart checking the public records for flooding years ago when buying house nothing on record but still got caught out with minor flooding due to inadequate council storm water drain and neighbours house having inadequate drainage, now in a dispute with council & neighbour sadly

And just to be clear I mean west of the mountains. (For the most part I reckon mountain towns are safe) :)

The town at the top of Mt Kosciuszko... What'sIt'sName?

Orange, NSW

That does make sense! :)

Not for another 100 years. Surely.

Hahahaha

Have you ever been to Armidale?

It sits in a wonderful little valley.

You won't have much luck on the west because it is very flat and towns are built on rivers.

Maybe try cobar? Or lightning Ridge? They don't sit on rivers or creeks so safe bet.

There isn’t one.

Thredbo is closest, it floods occasionally.

Katoomba is still prone to localised flooding.

I have been to Armidale, but didn't know it floods.

Exactly I know people that have been flooded in upper Blue Mtns area

Thankfully rarely around the bottom end when it gt a downpour in the central basin.

For air, the basin floods with smoke every winter from inversion.

I knew it snowed sometimes. I remember. I just didn't know it flooded. I thought it was too high up.

It is not so much absolute height, but relative height and where the water flows. There is also flooding from run off and flooding from accumulating water.

Lismore floods because it is on the outlet of a large basin. So the runoff from that basin building up water as the outlet is through a "narrow" choke point.

Armidale is in another smaller basin and a similar effect happens at the bottom end of town just north of the eastern road towards Dorrigo and other places. IME, it isn't a common occurrence, but it has happened.

Flooding along the Nepean-Hawkesbury River system is mostly due to a number of choke points along the system. Someone linked to it recently.

That's interesting. I didn't know Armidale was in a basin.

This company again? How do they just keep getting away with it?!

Never mind a little human meat in there. No one would ever know.

Because this is Australia where money speaks louder than laws.

Cuz they’re rich, they probably also have friends who are politicians all around the world.

What companies do they have in their portfolio? Just in case I was considering a boycott.

Édit: Found it. There goes Hans and Primo meats plus Huon smoked salmon….

https://jbsfoodsgroup.com/our-brands

Proceeds of crime speak louder than laws....

Probably? Watch the 4 corners episode. They've got everyone in their pockets.

They bought the Huon salmon farm company in Tasmania, I shudder to think what horrors will come from that.

Also majority of beef in Coles and Woolworths.

[https://ab.co/3MSHaXF](https://ab.co/3MSHaXF)

18% over the past 2 years for rent.

Have they seen house prices over the past 2 years?

Whats next, breaking news fuel prices up 20% over the past 2 years!?!?

So is everything else.

Except wages.

G'day, I've been thinking on how to make a suggestion to council/the school about this:

The bus zone at the school is being used by parents to let kids out of their cars (orange highlighter). This is not legal (no stopping/no parking in a bus zone). There is a couple of convenient parks (highlighted in green) that the empty 12 seat busses get parked in, there are 3 or 4 of these busses, always there 10 minutes before school starts, so I think they are the OOSHcare.

The rest of that circle has houses. Many teachers park there for the day, no worries, there is also street parking further up. There is a loading zone driveway next to the gate / bus zone if the teachers have a heap of stuff to bring in that day.

There are 2 other entry's to the school (black arrows) that have their own issues, but at least we got a couple of accessible parking spots (blue highlighter).

I'm wanting some feedback if I'm being a Kevin, or if my suggestion to have a "kiss and drop zone" marked as no parking during school days would be appropriate. Thoughts?

Back when I was in primary school, they implemented the same thing. Imo, was a great change, but it’s still not a perfect solution. We had a school of ~500 kids, and the kiss and ride zone was 6 car lengths long. At the end of the day, there’d probably be close to 10 cars queueing along the street waiting for their turn to enter the kiss and ride zone.

The school ended up asking parents to register to use the zone during afternoon pick ups, and capping the number of users. The registered users were given a sign with their family’s surname on it to display in the windscreen, kids would stay seated inside the school gates until their pickup person arrived, and a staff member supervised kids getting into their family cars. If the kids weren’t sat there waiting already, the driver was asked to go around the block and line up again.

In the mornings there wasn’t ever really those issues, so anyone could use the zone (not just registered users). Morning drop offs are typically spread out over a bit of a wider time period, and there’s less child safety issues associated with dropping off than picking up.