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I don’t know if it’s just a NSW/Australian thing but I think it’s so pure and comforting that you can just drive to get something to eat (e.g. Hungry Jacks because I’m here right now) and then just chill in the car park with other people doing the exact same thing.

Whether it’s because you don’t wanna go home, it’s a road-trip pit-stop or you’re attempting some socialising exposure therapy, there’s just an unspoken feeling of peace & comfort.

Maybe it’s just my perception. Does anyone else feel this way? (in particular introverts)

Whatever helps you feel less lonely. For me it was the sound of trucks engine braking in the dead of night when I was a teenager living in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Helped to know there were other people in the world still awake somehow.

Hey fellas, I went for my drivers test today and sadly it got cancelled immediately due to tire tread. No complaints on my end as I did mention it to my Father multiple times but sadly he thought it would be alright.

I was able to reschedule for this coming Thursday (in two days) and though you're supposed to wait 7 days if you have failed, it didn't block me from booking the test. The man at the ServiceNSW also did not check any failed boxes on the Licence Application. Nowhere has it mentioned that a test cancellation is a fail and as far as my brother recalls when he failed the service website blocked him from booking a test for the upcoming week. Should I be alright, and they won't cancel the booking on the spot? Cheers!

Have you got new tires?

If your test is cancelled, you do not have to wait the 7 days before sitting another test. You only fail the test if you actually complete the drive. It's not recorded as a fail on your record.

A cancellation is different to a fail.

Small nitpick. It says he was about seven years older AT THAT TIME. I hate to break it to the SMH but he’s still about seven years older.

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Ah yes, maths, the language of science and the underpinnings of knowledge. That maths.

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Which have you seen? Which are you seeing? Which do you recommend? Have you had surgery? Did you seek a secondary and tertiary opinion?

I thought you were seeing Ents like Treebeard in Sydney. I’m terribly disappointed.

Just for future reference, you need capitals to shorten Ear, Nose and Throat specialist, you can’t just write ent.

I’m so disappointed there aren’t living trees.

I was thinking this belonged in r/vaporents

I really liked Dr Andrew Bridger in Miranda. Very lovely bedside manner. He operated on my sinuses. I’d previously seen a different ENT, also at Miranda, who I was not keen on.

I use the ENT centre in Hornsby (Dr Boustred). Very very jovial Dr and knows what he's talking about. Filling in my RFA forms as we speak so can't update on accuracy of scalpel until later in the year I'm afraid.

I had surgery with Dr Jonathan Livesey in St Leonards. Very very good bedside manner, and explained everything in detail and in a digestible way.

He was realistic about pain post op, and gave good advice on what to do to help the pain.

I thought it was a Myers Briggs personality type

There's a marker on the mtb course at wylde called tree beard, the tree does bear a good resemblance.

I can agree! He was my ENT too.

I liked how he gave me very firm instructions and advice on what’s best for me - some specialists give me too many options and I become too overwhelmed and do none lol.

Ended up with having surgery will his colleague die to scheduling, went very smoothly.

Full disclaimer I could well be guilty of the offence but I don’t remember because it happened the other day

But when they’ve written the ticket, they’ve written the wrong address/location of where the offence couldve occured, they’ve written a location like 200 metres away, do I have a chance disputing it as I’m kinda broke at the moment

It is a ticketable offence. You can apply for a review and if that is unsucessful go to court to make the appeal to a beak. If you think any photographic evidence they have will show a completely different address then you're certainly in with a shot.

I hate that fines aren't commensurate with capacity to pay or the wealth of the individual.

Also, when you're kind of broke, it's never a good idea to break laws that will easily attract a fine. What were you thinking?

Good luck.

And the rozzers wonder why people hate them.

I'm not sure how it helps that the address isnt quite right.

You'd need to prove you weren't there at that point in time.. that's the only way doubt could be established.

Unfortunately the ticket system means they will take the professionals word over yours every day of the week.

There should be photos online.

[https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/help-centre/online-services/sections/fines](https://www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/help-centre/online-services/sections/fines)

Can you get out of it because of a clerical error? Probably not.

Thanks man, i should’ve read up on the rules I’m new to the country you see, just have a lot going on when you move don’t you. I’m hoping any photos they have will help because it is 100% the wrong address they’ve recorded so I’m just hoping it’s invalidated. Wish they’d give a warning or something for idiots like myself lol

Can't they just re-issue the penalty notice with the correct address?

Double jeopardy doesn't apply to traffic penalties

Road user handbook to help you avoid future mishaps:

https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/licence-publications

Are you from the UK? Because I see it all the time there and my police-state-NSW self is always slightly shocked haha

If they have photos of you parked the wrong way, then it does not matter what address they give, that is still evidence you have broken the law.

I don't know mate. I'm not a wig wearer.

I was wondering how people feel about the $8 /hr max of $28 locals can park for free. But it is a state park. Should local pay too why are they given exemptions? Is it designed to keep the riff raff out?

Its managed by council, so that is the logic behind the locals getting free parking as they pay for it through their rates. Its not a new concept, as in you see it at most sydney beaches.

Potentially you could have a valid argument that for beaches like bondi where they are used by people all over sydney, the nsw government should cover the cost of lifeguards rather than council being burdened with the cost alone. In that situation, then i would agree free local parking would no longer make much sense.

Obviously you are not paying Northern Beaches council rates by the sound of your question but yes, limited parking at any beach / park up there so locals get the incentive and visitors pay a "not rate payer" fee. Councils know it's an attraction and not sure what you want to hear here but you can sometimes find locals selling their council stickers for your car (even though it's super not allowed) if you're going to be a regular.

If you use terms like "riff raff", _you_ are the problem

Hello guys!

I am writing today to tell you about an issue I faced as quite honestly I am unsure how to proceed.

To start with this story, I want to explain how I am an education agent/work at an education agency outside of Australia, where I and other people help students from our country who wish to study in Australia by guiding them through the Visa and school application process as long as they have the necessary English skills academic capabilities.

Recently, we had worked with an education provider that we were close to and worked for close to 2 years now on a project to send more than several but a group of students that we deemed as highly capable for a year of study in Australia. We trusted them and thought nothing bad would happen due to our previous working experience with them. But then after they sent us the written agreements for each student and after the students signed it.

We only ended discovering until way later that the non-refundable amount for each student was 3000$. This is a ridiculous number which was not at all previously communicated to us. It is also a complete and utter change from how we previous did this with the education provider as they only had a non-refundable amount of about 500$ in their written agreements.

We obviously immediately talked with them about this and naturally thought that this was a mistake, wishing to confirm with their CEO if something happened and some if the students wished for a refund they would still get said refund at a normal rate as they did before whenever something like this happened.

But then, they told us that they cannot refund the students once the offer letter or written agreement was signed, making us currently extremely fearful and depressed about what to do. We have a couple individuals at our agency that known Australian laws and how to proceed. I personally am not a specialist in this which is why I am just trying to help any way I can by asking you people if there could be anything done by for example making a report to Fair Trading or the Ombudsman in Sydney denying the good faith of the written agreement as we do have previous examples of written agreement that are completely different to this one since this is the first time they had so abruptly changed everything on us. Furthermore, we also have prove that they have never in any way shape or form informed us of this major change as I feel like they should have absolutely told us that they weren't going to refund 3000$ of each student.

To preface, in my country 3000$ is not a small amount. It is a whole year's worth of above average working person's salary. It is a huge amount that will not only tarnish the reputation of the place I work in, but also likely cause us to get shut down if not worse have us branded with criminal reports.

I am quite honestly scared, as an employee I may not have any responsibility here since I wasn't even responsible for this having done only paper grunt work and therefore the worst that will happen to me is that I will be out of a job for a time until I find another job. But I still like the place I am working at along with my colleagues and my boss who truly work hard to send not so fortunate individuals to study in a country like Australia and so that they return to our country and have a better life here.

Now I know I have been very blurry and avoiding some of the true details here like identities and so on. I am primarily doing this because I truly don't know what I can and cannot say in a public forum like this.

But I would appreciate it immensely if you guys could give me advise so that I can bring it up to my boss's since I do want to help and most importantly help any students from not suffering a loss.

To the tell you also another truth, the title was clickbait to get you to read and understand me.

I do not wish to think of the worst assumption or possibility as to why this had happened. I want to stay optimistic and look for a path forward since we already are in talks with the CEO and are in a somewhat trajectory of a plan that may just work and all of this turning to be nothing in the end with this post becoming meaningless.

But if something does happen, I want to seek advise from anywhere I can.

Thank you for reading this.

I hope you can help us.

And if you do.

Who knows, maybe I'll send personal messages and images of help to those people from us and the students.

Here is me hoping.

Sounds like your company needs a lawyer who deals with contract law in your country.

I’m not sure what more help you could hope to get from Redditors.

Unfortunately there is very little you can do about this.

A contract is a contract. Unless you have been misled or deceived then there is likely no way to break the contract.

Did they say “the conditions are unchanged from our previous contract” and then have you sign it? Even if they did that your employer should be reviewing the contract before signing.

The students you are working for in your home country should be reading the contract.

Don’t sign a contract without reading the agreement - even if you have been working with the same organisation for a period of time.

Don't sign any contract without reading and understanding it first. If you have questions for the other party, ask them before you sign the fucking contract. Jesus.

So you signed the contract with the higher amount, signed students up, and are now shocked the higher amount applies?

Regardless what their previous price was you missed it in the contract. Nothing you can do now except read the paperwork next time!

Hello from the other side of the world, in the Dominican Republic!

I'm a sports journalist that covers football from around the world and I'm also a collector of football jerseys.

Instead of going all in with the ones of the A League Men clubs, I thought about looking at the level below in the Australian footballing pyramid (National Premier League system).

Now I'm here asking if there's a chance I can get jerseys from these clubs from New South Wales, split in two on the NPL system.

Any help will be welcome!

Thank you!

[https://wollongongwolves.com.au/product/red-home-jersey/](https://wollongongwolves.com.au/product/red-home-jersey/)

Heres the Wollongong Wolves kit. Might have to contact them about sending it internationally though.

Yep, but you’ll have to go through the clubs but most have an online store.

I don’t know if it’s also true for soccer, but I know that the only way to get jerseys from local footy clubs (other than actually playing for them) is to wait for someone to sell them second hand.

Let's see if we're lucky soon. I've been looking for a Wollongong Wolves jersey for quite some time, but it's not been an easy task so far.

In the meantime, I did manage to purchase my first jersey of the A League (Sydney FC) and I'm waiting for it to arrive.

Consider posting to the r/wollongong sub

If you’re from Oberon, Bathurst, Lithgow, Black Springs or anywhere around us, we are a Christian Kids Scouts Club operating in the area 2024.

We’re having a registration day today at the Oberon Public Library!!

I visited Young last month with my mates. And it was absolutely a blast. 5 hours of drive away from Sydney and it was worth it. I've been only traveling overseas and I never thought Aussies had wonderful places to visit. I would like short 2 night 3 day trips recommendations to travel with friends and try this domestic and more financial trips more often.

I'm looking for other towns like Young where I can get some beautiful natural sceneries, interesting town and landmarks, things/activities to do and things to eat.