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Short trips are Hawks Nest, Seal rocks, Forster, then loop back on west of highway to Gloucester.
Loop over Barrington Tops; come up west side from Scone and down the east side to Gloucester.
Get a map or two from a servo and pour over it.
If kids are able, web search 'tourist/scenic/interest spots.
The bartender asks "Why the long face?" The man replies "I just found out my wife is sleeping with another man. I've decided I'm going to drink myself to death." The bartender looks shocked and says "I'm sorry I can't help you kill yourself." The man asks "Well what would you do in my situation?" The bartender puffs himself up a bit and says "If I found out a guy was sleeping with my wife I wouldn't sit around feeling sorry for myself, I'd kill the guy." The man jumps up from his stool and shouts "That's a great idea! Thanks!" and runs out of the bar. A couple hours goes by and the bartender is starting to get nervous when the man walks back into the bar with a smile on his face. "Did you kill the guy?" The bartender asks nervously. "Nope! I slept with your wife. Whiskey please."
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Morning all, in mid October my wife and I are road tripping up to Byron Bay from Melbourne. We are taking the long route up the east coast and I anticipate 2 overnight stops.
The first I was thinking probably Eden/Pambula/Merimbula, however the second I'm not sure. Newcastle?
Honestly by the time of night we'd arrive I'm not overly fussed about location but just thought I'd get the locals' suggestions. Ta!
Where do you intend to stay, like campground, caravan park, motel, hotel?
I'd probably try to make it as far as Bulahdelah for your second stint if you can. A couple of decent places to stay and a bit easier to get on/off the highway from than Newcastle.
Are they literally just overnight pitstops for rest, food and fuel or tourist stops?
OK yep excellent question. Probably just a motel I'd say.
Honestly they are probably just overnight stops considering the time involved. I guess a better q is about the travelling time and traffic etc etc
Wouldn’t bother with newcastle, takes like 20 mins to get into cbd from the m1, shoot through to buladelah, forster or further up near laurieton/port Macquarie and enjoy the coastal drives.
Eden to Port is haul, that's 10 hours with one toilet stop.
I had them when I was 17 but let them lapse cause I was too anxious to drive, now I'm nearly 31 and want to start driving, I can use my ndis plan to learn to drive but I have to get my ls again first to get the ot assessment and do disability driving lessons.... I never told them I had autism back then.... But I saw someone on fb say you had to tell them you are autistic and get a doctors note clearing you to drive if you are autistic
Anyone know for sure?
As far as I know, if they need to know anything about your health, they'll give you a form for your doctor to complete. There are also some notifiable conditions that the doctors automatically advises them of.
My 2c is just apply/submit form and worry about lessons and then passing. Good luck.
Contact Service NSW and ask them. If it doesn't affect your ability to drive it shouldn't be a problem.
Say nothing if it's not on the form. Fill in the forms, honestly though but don't volunteer anything.
no.
You have various legal declarations to make on your licence application.
Q12 asks, Do you have any medical, physical or mental disabilities which
may affect your driving?
I would argue autism would constitute a yes, but that unless it is severe and you would be a danger on the road as a result, your doctor is likely to pass a medical for you.
Best bet would be to go in, have a medical form generated and have it completed by your GP before going back to reapply. If you are going to choose to disclose it, that is.
With zero knowledge of you, I would recommend you speak to your GP or social worker to work out if disclosure is needed as you may get a tester who has experience working with people on the spectrum.
Personally we have always found disclosure works best for our son.
You're technically required to, but say no if autism likely won't affect your driving because our healthcare and mental healthcare still oppresses autistic people.
In VIC someone I know made a mention of having anxiety at the licensing office, and it set off a whole chain of events needing specialist doctors appointments, assessors and such, at their own expense, to prove that they are fit to drive, which would be ongoing. They decided it wasn't worth it and don't drive, even though their regular doctor says that they should be perfectly fine to drive in the first place
I hope they no longer try to list Aspergers under the Epilepsy category... (Which would've influenced my legibility) ..like when I first applied for my Ls in ?1994 and was asked about medical conditions.
Hi All! I am not sure where to ask this question, so I thought I’d start here.
I (27m) moved to Forster last year and really enjoy it. But, there don’t seem to be many people here around my age. Any advice on where to meet people in a smaller town, or is anyone on here from around this area?
TIA for any advice
Lifelong fosterite here, the best thing for a 20 something year old to do here is leave this glorified retirement village
That or meth usually.
Most school leavers move out of Forster in a year or two - often Newcastle and further afield. It's a retirement town by and large but will get busy come summer holidays. Taree might have a few more social circles going on if you're good to travel for a sport or hobby. Past Club 21 like 10 years ago, I don't think Forster-Tuncurry has much of a clubbing scene.
It’s a retirement town but you could try out the community pages on Facebook or create one yourself and build some community!
Volunteer for rfs, Surf life saving or ses.
It's a similar story up here in Port. 22M moved here in 2021 from Newcastle, has been a difficult adjustment.
Grab a granny dance at the rsl
Go surfing it will consume you meet great people from surfing
Ooh! Meth could be fun
Whatever happened to good old pot as the solution for boredom in the bush! Get smashed go play bowls and drink pots of tooheys with the oldies at the Bowlies.
Inflation happened. Gotta go for the hard stuff now.
I'm asking this question on behalf of a Thai lady who wants to send her grand-nephew to a special-needs school in Sydney.
The boy is an Australian citizen, but has grown up in Thailand. He has been diagnosed with autism, and struggles with a regular classroom. He can read English quite well, and can speak it and write it to some extent.
A public school would be ideal, since the lady's ability to pay fees is limited. She's also keen on the idea of a boarding school (where he would board five days a week and come and stay with her on weekends), but I'm not sure how realistic that is.
Can anyone offer any suggestions about good special needs schools in the Sydney area?
Heads up the disabled/ND community in general finds special needs/abilities an infantalising term.
Boarding schools are extreamly uncommon in schools for specific purposes (the current official term for disability support schools)
If she's after public schools its realistically going to be by catchment area and he's more likely to be in a support class than a specific school. 131536 is where she'll need to call to discuss that child's needs. A formal diagnosis is required in most cases, at least in my experience (i live near the mater dei school and we hear a lot about it the processes around town. I also have nephew in a ssp school.)
Also tell her to look into NDIS for capacity building and other supports!
Northcott
Thanks for this. I'll send that information on to her.
Thanks, I will.
Just in time for Queensland's first nature negative rally!
I listed my apartment for sale with a real estate agency in Sydney earlier this year. I didn't end up selling due to the rapidly changing market conditions and decided to hold onto it, and the agent I listed with has also moved on to another agency.
Earlier this week I received a text message from a different agent from the same agency, but he is also friends with a close friend. This agent and I have met before, but my no means are we friends.
The agent texted "Hi XX, absolute long shot here... just wondering if you would be interested in selling your property to me? Give me a call when you can".
I gave him a call being somewhat skeptical. He said he's interested in purchasing and wants to come and have a look. I've asked what his budget is and its in the higher end of what I'd be happy to sell it for which would be ideal.
My concern is, how do I anticipate he's a legit buyer and isn't going to turn around and say something like "hmm it's not for me but I do have another buyer it would be perfect for" and try to get a listing?
I'm not a fan of having the guy come through my place if he's not actually interested in buying (it feels like an invasion of privacy, and also an invasion of personal data privacy given he's already got my details, address, number and previous contracts from when I listed through that agency earlier. Would this also be a breach of privacy/power?).
One idea I had was asking him for a $500 deposit to come for the inspection, which would be deducted from the purchase price. Would this help show his true intensions?
It all seems a little odd and seeking some opinions and open advice.
Thanks!
I don't know how to check that, but he seems very sus to me. It looks like he wants to case your home to break into it or more likely, he's using a bit of nepotism (you guys having a mutual friend) to potentially scam you.
Rule of thumb: NEVER sell directly to an agent - they are either going to fuck you over or help one of their 'friends' buy a place for cheap that they can then use to fuck someone else over with.
>a Labor-connected consultant
I'm tellin ya, we don't vote for the decision-makers. We vote for the fall guys.
free version: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/nsw-giving-billions-in-taxpayer-money-to-a-fossil-fuel-donor-well-why-not/ar-AA1giAJJ
What services / benefits can I avail with this NSW Education account?
half price Spotify, cheaper windows/Microsoft products
apple/ms/dell/lenovo all have student pricing from what I can see.
At one stage, it gave you access to some software/services from one of the companies. As mine expired about a decade ago, I stop keeping track.
I think you can get Adobe Photoshop (and potentially other products) for free
Am away from home for my test and have (accidentally) left my physical license behind - has anyone used their digital one for the test and been fine?
They should… they are the one that created it. It’s an official licence
Yes
They need to cut a hole in the learner license to invalidate it if you pass the test
They haven't done that in ages!
My first licence doesn't have a hole
My partner wants to go there. I've never been there and interested to hear what people think of the area. I've googled it and it's near the water, which I love . I love exploring new areas so excited for the trip. We'll be driving up from Sydney in December before Christmas. We're staying 4 days 19-22 December. Is 4 days enough to explore what the area has to offer?. Any insight would be appreciated, thanks in advance
You laze around, go for walk on the beach and swim. That it. That's the point.
4 days is definitely enough.
If either of you can drive a boat I highly recommend hiring one and going out to the little island in Tuncurry. Also definitely take a drive out to the Green Cathedral, it's not too far out of town.
Also recommend walking down the breakwall, both Forster and Tuncurry have one, just be prepared to say good morning to everyone as you walk past them.
Other than that, there's not a whole lot to do, except explore the beaches etc. Driving over the bridge from/to Tuncurry is always lovely.
If you are going in December, be prepared for heavy traffic as it's tourist season and it gets nuts. Get to the shops early in the morning if you need anything.
Have fun!!
2-3 days is good. Fishing, boating, beaches. Kayaking, camping on the lakes.
Sightseeing down the awesome lakes way drive is good too. Blueys beach, seal rocks etc good too.
Good scuba diving if you're in to that kinda thing.
Used to live there, there’s nothing to do except for beach and getting a bakery lunch. Maybe you can go on the river and fish if that’s your jam. It’s not really a tourist destination for a plethora of activities, just a retirement town with some families still so you can just chill and explore.
Stopped there for a few nights earlier this year with the partner and kids as a friend had recommended the area. Highly recommend the Tuncurry rock pools if swimming is on the agenda. Also had some amazing fish and chips in town but can’t remember the shop name.
Forster is a tourist town and it sounds like you are going in the peak tourist period. either you'll like the buzz or want to go elsewhere like the locals.
You give no information of your interests. if you into beaches then good, lakes then good, bushwalking, etc then good.
The dolphin cruise isn’t a bad morning out if you’ve never seen a dolphin before.

Short trips are Hawks Nest, Seal rocks, Forster, then loop back on west of highway to Gloucester.

Loop over Barrington Tops; come up west side from Scone and down the east side to Gloucester.

Get a map or two from a servo and pour over it.

If kids are able, web search 'tourist/scenic/interest spots.

The bartender asks "Why the long face?" The man replies "I just found out my wife is sleeping with another man. I've decided I'm going to drink myself to death." The bartender looks shocked and says "I'm sorry I can't help you kill yourself." The man asks "Well what would you do in my situation?" The bartender puffs himself up a bit and says "If I found out a guy was sleeping with my wife I wouldn't sit around feeling sorry for myself, I'd kill the guy." The man jumps up from his stool and shouts "That's a great idea! Thanks!" and runs out of the bar. A couple hours goes by and the bartender is starting to get nervous when the man walks back into the bar with a smile on his face. "Did you kill the guy?" The bartender asks nervously. "Nope! I slept with your wife. Whiskey please."

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Morning all, in mid October my wife and I are road tripping up to Byron Bay from Melbourne. We are taking the long route up the east coast and I anticipate 2 overnight stops.

The first I was thinking probably Eden/Pambula/Merimbula, however the second I'm not sure. Newcastle?

Honestly by the time of night we'd arrive I'm not overly fussed about location but just thought I'd get the locals' suggestions. Ta!

Where do you intend to stay, like campground, caravan park, motel, hotel?

I'd probably try to make it as far as Bulahdelah for your second stint if you can. A couple of decent places to stay and a bit easier to get on/off the highway from than Newcastle.

Are they literally just overnight pitstops for rest, food and fuel or tourist stops?

OK yep excellent question. Probably just a motel I'd say.

Honestly they are probably just overnight stops considering the time involved. I guess a better q is about the travelling time and traffic etc etc

Wouldn’t bother with newcastle, takes like 20 mins to get into cbd from the m1, shoot through to buladelah, forster or further up near laurieton/port Macquarie and enjoy the coastal drives.

Eden to Port is haul, that's 10 hours with one toilet stop.

I had them when I was 17 but let them lapse cause I was too anxious to drive, now I'm nearly 31 and want to start driving, I can use my ndis plan to learn to drive but I have to get my ls again first to get the ot assessment and do disability driving lessons.... I never told them I had autism back then.... But I saw someone on fb say you had to tell them you are autistic and get a doctors note clearing you to drive if you are autistic

Anyone know for sure?

As far as I know, if they need to know anything about your health, they'll give you a form for your doctor to complete. There are also some notifiable conditions that the doctors automatically advises them of.

My 2c is just apply/submit form and worry about lessons and then passing. Good luck.

Contact Service NSW and ask them. If it doesn't affect your ability to drive it shouldn't be a problem.

Say nothing if it's not on the form. Fill in the forms, honestly though but don't volunteer anything.

no.

You have various legal declarations to make on your licence application.

Q12 asks, Do you have any medical, physical or mental disabilities which

may affect your driving?

I would argue autism would constitute a yes, but that unless it is severe and you would be a danger on the road as a result, your doctor is likely to pass a medical for you.

Best bet would be to go in, have a medical form generated and have it completed by your GP before going back to reapply. If you are going to choose to disclose it, that is.

With zero knowledge of you, I would recommend you speak to your GP or social worker to work out if disclosure is needed as you may get a tester who has experience working with people on the spectrum.

Personally we have always found disclosure works best for our son.

You're technically required to, but say no if autism likely won't affect your driving because our healthcare and mental healthcare still oppresses autistic people.

In VIC someone I know made a mention of having anxiety at the licensing office, and it set off a whole chain of events needing specialist doctors appointments, assessors and such, at their own expense, to prove that they are fit to drive, which would be ongoing. They decided it wasn't worth it and don't drive, even though their regular doctor says that they should be perfectly fine to drive in the first place

I hope they no longer try to list Aspergers under the Epilepsy category... (Which would've influenced my legibility) ..like when I first applied for my Ls in ?1994 and was asked about medical conditions.

Hi All! I am not sure where to ask this question, so I thought I’d start here.

I (27m) moved to Forster last year and really enjoy it. But, there don’t seem to be many people here around my age. Any advice on where to meet people in a smaller town, or is anyone on here from around this area?

TIA for any advice

Lifelong fosterite here, the best thing for a 20 something year old to do here is leave this glorified retirement village

That or meth usually.

Most school leavers move out of Forster in a year or two - often Newcastle and further afield. It's a retirement town by and large but will get busy come summer holidays. Taree might have a few more social circles going on if you're good to travel for a sport or hobby. Past Club 21 like 10 years ago, I don't think Forster-Tuncurry has much of a clubbing scene.

It’s a retirement town but you could try out the community pages on Facebook or create one yourself and build some community!

Volunteer for rfs, Surf life saving or ses.

It's a similar story up here in Port. 22M moved here in 2021 from Newcastle, has been a difficult adjustment.

Grab a granny dance at the rsl

Go surfing it will consume you meet great people from surfing

Ooh! Meth could be fun

Whatever happened to good old pot as the solution for boredom in the bush! Get smashed go play bowls and drink pots of tooheys with the oldies at the Bowlies.

Inflation happened. Gotta go for the hard stuff now.

I'm asking this question on behalf of a Thai lady who wants to send her grand-nephew to a special-needs school in Sydney.

The boy is an Australian citizen, but has grown up in Thailand. He has been diagnosed with autism, and struggles with a regular classroom. He can read English quite well, and can speak it and write it to some extent.

A public school would be ideal, since the lady's ability to pay fees is limited. She's also keen on the idea of a boarding school (where he would board five days a week and come and stay with her on weekends), but I'm not sure how realistic that is.

Can anyone offer any suggestions about good special needs schools in the Sydney area?

Heads up the disabled/ND community in general finds special needs/abilities an infantalising term.

Boarding schools are extreamly uncommon in schools for specific purposes (the current official term for disability support schools)

If she's after public schools its realistically going to be by catchment area and he's more likely to be in a support class than a specific school. 131536 is where she'll need to call to discuss that child's needs. A formal diagnosis is required in most cases, at least in my experience (i live near the mater dei school and we hear a lot about it the processes around town. I also have nephew in a ssp school.)

Also tell her to look into NDIS for capacity building and other supports!

Northcott

Thanks for this. I'll send that information on to her.

Thanks, I will.

Just in time for Queensland's first nature negative rally!

I listed my apartment for sale with a real estate agency in Sydney earlier this year. I didn't end up selling due to the rapidly changing market conditions and decided to hold onto it, and the agent I listed with has also moved on to another agency.

Earlier this week I received a text message from a different agent from the same agency, but he is also friends with a close friend. This agent and I have met before, but my no means are we friends.

The agent texted "Hi XX, absolute long shot here... just wondering if you would be interested in selling your property to me? Give me a call when you can".

I gave him a call being somewhat skeptical. He said he's interested in purchasing and wants to come and have a look. I've asked what his budget is and its in the higher end of what I'd be happy to sell it for which would be ideal.

My concern is, how do I anticipate he's a legit buyer and isn't going to turn around and say something like "hmm it's not for me but I do have another buyer it would be perfect for" and try to get a listing?

I'm not a fan of having the guy come through my place if he's not actually interested in buying (it feels like an invasion of privacy, and also an invasion of personal data privacy given he's already got my details, address, number and previous contracts from when I listed through that agency earlier. Would this also be a breach of privacy/power?).

One idea I had was asking him for a $500 deposit to come for the inspection, which would be deducted from the purchase price. Would this help show his true intensions?

It all seems a little odd and seeking some opinions and open advice.

Thanks!

I don't know how to check that, but he seems very sus to me. It looks like he wants to case your home to break into it or more likely, he's using a bit of nepotism (you guys having a mutual friend) to potentially scam you.

Rule of thumb: *NEVER* sell directly to an agent - they are either going to fuck you over or help one of their 'friends' buy a place for cheap that *they* can then use to fuck someone else over with.

>a Labor-connected consultant

I'm tellin ya, we don't vote for the decision-makers. We vote for the fall guys.

free version: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/nsw-giving-billions-in-taxpayer-money-to-a-fossil-fuel-donor-well-why-not/ar-AA1giAJJ

What services / benefits can I avail with this NSW Education account?

half price Spotify, cheaper windows/Microsoft products

apple/ms/dell/lenovo all have student pricing from what I can see.

At one stage, it gave you access to some software/services from one of the companies. As mine expired about a decade ago, I stop keeping track.

I think you can get Adobe Photoshop (and potentially other products) for free

Am away from home for my test and have (accidentally) left my physical license behind - has anyone used their digital one for the test and been fine?

They should… they are the one that created it. It’s an official licence

Yes

They need to cut a hole in the learner license to invalidate it if you pass the test

They haven't done that in ages!

My first licence doesn't have a hole

My partner wants to go there. I've never been there and interested to hear what people think of the area. I've googled it and it's near the water, which I love . I love exploring new areas so excited for the trip. We'll be driving up from Sydney in December before Christmas. We're staying 4 days 19-22 December. Is 4 days enough to explore what the area has to offer?. Any insight would be appreciated, thanks in advance

You laze around, go for walk on the beach and swim. That it. That's the point.

4 days is definitely enough.

If either of you can drive a boat I highly recommend hiring one and going out to the little island in Tuncurry. Also definitely take a drive out to the Green Cathedral, it's not too far out of town.

Also recommend walking down the breakwall, both Forster and Tuncurry have one, just be prepared to say good morning to *everyone* as you walk past them.

Other than that, there's not a whole lot to do, except explore the beaches etc. Driving over the bridge from/to Tuncurry is always lovely.

If you are going in December, be prepared for heavy traffic as it's tourist season and it gets nuts. Get to the shops early in the morning if you need anything.

Have fun!!

2-3 days is good. Fishing, boating, beaches. Kayaking, camping on the lakes.

Sightseeing down the awesome lakes way drive is good too. Blueys beach, seal rocks etc good too.

Good scuba diving if you're in to that kinda thing.

Used to live there, there’s nothing to do except for beach and getting a bakery lunch. Maybe you can go on the river and fish if that’s your jam. It’s not really a tourist destination for a plethora of activities, just a retirement town with some families still so you can just chill and explore.

Stopped there for a few nights earlier this year with the partner and kids as a friend had recommended the area. Highly recommend the Tuncurry rock pools if swimming is on the agenda. Also had some amazing fish and chips in town but can’t remember the shop name.

Forster is a tourist town and it sounds like you are going in the peak tourist period. either you'll like the buzz or want to go elsewhere like the locals.

You give no information of your interests. if you into beaches then good, lakes then good, bushwalking, etc then good.

The dolphin cruise isn’t a bad morning out if you’ve never seen a dolphin before.