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If you get a referral from your GP, a blood test costs nothing.
I didn't know that as an almost 30 year old Aussie lol. I just don't go to the doctors enough to know that.
Yeah but the visit to the GP costs
Magpies are friendly and comical birds, just not in spring, had multiple cool physical interactions with them other than being swooped
58 year old Aussie here and never been swooped by a Magpie, they go after my wife instead so I always take her with me.
@@JoniusGnome 😂
Feed Maggie family 3 times a day...never been swooped, they see you as friends.
100%. i love my maggies. they sing to me everymorning and watch my every move when i'm in the kitchen
Gerald Stone, the American reporter, spent many years on Aussie current affairs TV in 60s & 70s. RIP.
She was just lucky that Drop Bear was a juvenile...
Still a lot of places out west where I wouldn't turn my schooner upside down 😬🤣
Because of the mottled grey areas on the magpie, it would be a baby magpie. They are usually the same size as an adult very quickly and make funny noises, before turning jet black and white.
In 1977 USD was worth about 60 Aussie cents.
You have to remember everything is weekly in Australia, wages, rent, etc. Electricity is quarterly, every 3 months.
Is it because of all the poisonous animals? One couldn't be sure they would still be alive after a whole month.
I've never paid for a blood test, if I had to pay and take an injection, I wouldn't turn up! A printed menu is a great flirting tool, and may start a great discussion, no thanks! Pub, drink your own beer, no eye contact! Don't go down to Woolloomooloo, that's where the hectic Naval Base and the nightclubs were! Aren't peanuts grown in Queensland? Magpies are super curious and smart! That's not my pet snake! We still have to survive alone and may need huge fences! Koala thought she was hiding her baby! Take a dip truck? 🙃👎
Glass upside down yeah it means fight in Western Australia aswell, leave it empty & standing you want another drink, lay it down your going home.
Not all blood tests are covered by Medicare. It depends on what type it is.
Also, if you are a private patient in hospital, you will definitely pay for tests.
3:17 does the restaurant give me a tip for serving myself?
Rents are generally quoted per week but paid monthly - weekly rent multiplied by 52, then divided by 12 to get the monthly amount. Regarding the pub fights, That reporter looks to be a very young Gerald Stone, an American journalist who moved to Australia and became a television executive with the Nine Network, most notably founding the Australian edition of the 60 Minutes current affairs program.
I think that might vary depending on where in Aus you live. I've been renting in Sydney for 15 years and have only ever paid fortnightly
@@Dahvood I lived in Sydney most of my 70 years of life and always paid weekly
You would have seen the upside down glass in some old westerns.
QR codes at restaurants means logging into an app. Logging into an app lets the restaurant know so much about you, and now send you adverts all the time, etc! Why is everyone in a pub in the 1960s 50 years of age or more!
Pub glass etiquette is still a thing in alot of country pubs. I was trained it as a teen and you could see any locals new the language and anyone coming in new or young didn't know it.
It's also a little bit regional too, out west It's still incredibly common
Back in the 1960's, 20 cents/day for lunch money was plenty for a kid.
I could for recess get a buttered finger bun. For lunch I could have either a pie or pastie and a 300 ml bottle of coke. I could then return the bottle and have enough to buy an ice cream/block. On the way home we could stop in at the shop and buy a 3 cent bag of mix lollies (candy).
When I hit high school that went up to $1 for the first couple of years and then increased to $2.
I can even remember pulling into a servo and asking for 50 cents of petrol.
When I started working my pay was $68/week.
😂😂 Australia is unique and beautiful 💜
We're a weird mob! 🎉😂💪🏼
When my older sister started working, her weekly wage was $30.
When I started working my weekly wage was $18
NZ is a much newer landmass that Australia. It has been pushed up by tectonic action from the Pacific Rim.
Australia is relatively free of tectonic effects.
I started working in 1968 and my weekly pay packet was about $36. I was living at home and paying board of $10 per week. Most basic grocery items cost less than a dollar, in fact mostly less than 50c. For example: white bread loaf 19c; 1/2 lb loose leaf tea, 31c; beef sirloin 64c per pound; pint milk 11c; butter 51c pound.
They just need to apply for a rebate from medicare. Approx. 80% refund. Public clinics are usually totally free. If you have used a private clinic you can claim a refund through your private health insurance.
My doctor processes the Medicare refund while I'm at the surgery.
So why when my doctor charged $60, did I only get $23 back?
The medicare rebate for a standard consultation is $37 or so
two weeks ago i had the first encounter with a QR-code menu,... I got up, and left. I am not going to deal with that.
Never once heard of the turn down glass thing 🤯
As always love your work Ian cheers
I like printed menus because they mostly include the total cost of the food and you can compare two dishes. They also mostly include the ingredients of the food and a brief definition of the food jou are ordering. Very helpful if you are not a regular diner and don't know what a eg Tropical Parmagiama is .
All those old codgers in the bar sound really pissed
Hi Ian, just on the blood test charges. When the Coalition was last in government a couple of years ago now. They were advocating and following the US system of user pays. And It is still going on today under the current Labor government.
QML and Sullivan and Nicolaides just ask for your Medicare card and bulk bill . Special unusual tests they will tell you the cost . I don’t pay for tests unless they are unusual tests.
"Drink someone else's beer." - Now, in the civilised world, there are only two options here, and one ends without the need for a fight. The first option is you're doing that, because you _want_ to fight the person whose beer you drink. This ends in a fight, of course. The second one is an honest mistake. The honest mistake is easily cleared up, and you simply buy the person another beer and keep drinking the "borrowed" one. Might even end up with a new friend.
With regard to QR codes for menus, I haven't experienced it, yet, and so I haven't felt the urge to get up, walk out and find somewhere else to eat.
It sort of reminds me a little of those 'posh' restaurants that had mood lighting that made it too dark to read the menu, where you have to get your phone out and put the torch on. My eyes are not what they used to be and I would not be thrilled trying to read the menu on my cracked phone screen.
Gidday. As a 70’s child, I can give you an insight into the cost of living back then.
You said the average wage for a man was around $200. My Dad supported a family of five on that type of wage.
A phone call from a phone booth cost 10c. Many food items at school tuck shops cost 20c to 50c.
Petrol was cheap, our family owned v8s and 6s. We were a one car family. Kids had to walk or ride bikes or catch a bus to school.
Mum averaged $40 for groceries. If money was tight, she could buy a large box of groceries for $20. To feed the family for a week.
My parents were raised on farms. They butchered animals to put in the chest freezer. If they were chickens, it was a family affair on the weekend. We grew veggies and picked blackberries (a local farm weed) that Mum made into large batches of jam.
Most of our meals were home cooked from scratch. Having a restaurant meal or takeaway food was a rare treat.
As kids, we earned pocket money to buy lollies, chips and ice creams, or soda.
We collected glass milk and coke bottles to return for the deposits. We got 20c for the coke bottles, 5c for the milk bottles.
Our parents also returned beer bottles. We would use that money to go to the local corner shop and buy our treats because we never had junk food at home. If you were thirsty, you drank water. You could buy a large bag of mixed lollies for 20c, or an ice cream for 30c. 40c would get you a small can of coke.
Mum made and mended our clothing. We also foraged landfills for reusable items.
We played outside a lot. We didn’t have a lot of toys, but we preferred to play sports. Tennis, football, or just active playground style games.
Kids had household jobs to do. Gardening, washing dishes, mowing the lawn. Older kids might get pocket money for doing it but it wasn’t a given.
My Mum had a part time job at a local bakery so we got cheap bread. Dad did mechanical work for farmers and got livestock. Our milk was delivered and poured into a gallon sized bucket. That cost $2. Living in a local community meant that everyone could survive.
This is exactly how things were 1960s and 70s when I was growing up. It was a struggle, especially for women like my mother who had to raise seven kids on her own. But despite the numerous hardships we all endured, we got through them by pulling together. Life was much simpler back then but had more meaning than it does today.
Yep, even though I was born in the 80’s it was like that for me also, grateful for what we had. @nephilimslayer73
One glaring difference is the number of things we had in the 70s to now in just about every area of the home. Very much simpler existence
Our Medicare would normally be free,but with the gov dropping the ball,it was recently changed from bulk billing to pay as you go lol.
Doctors were not able to pay there mcmansions off in a way and so not long ago, concession and pension card holders were allowed to bulk bill again,
Interestingly in the last 4-5 years the prices have risen about 20% on average.
In 1974, the year I started work as a 17yo I was paid $99 per fortnight after tax. The rent I paid at a boarding house was $24/week and the next biggest expense was the weekly train ticket at about $8/week (may have been 7 dollars something. Didn't leave much for anything else but managed to get into Lidcombe oval to watch Wests play. DId that for a year then then in 1975 my wage went to $120/ fortnight.
As a person with medical issues I need many blood tests. If your doctor gives you a referral to a place which bulk bills it will cost you nothing. If the referral is to a non bulk billing clinic you will have to pay and claim it back later through Medicare. If you have no referral it will usually cost you over $150.
In regard to the peanuts, floods caused the loss of the majority of peanut crops here and stores like Coles had to source nuts from overseas. Just temporary until our peanut crops were growing again.
My parents bought their house in 1973, for £1200 today it is probably around £450000. At the time they struggled to pay the mortgage, but has there been a time in the past 50 years where most people haven't struggled to make mortgage payments?
U actually hit "Have a peek" pretty well haha... More accent that I have thats fo'sure.. Im from South Australia, we speak the Kings English haha
I've never heard of the upside down beer glass starting a fight. I'm a 53 yo Australian.
Those numbers she gave would have been weekly brother, or fortnightly (biweekly for the Yankee readers) at the most.
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s it was still tough. Housing interest rates were around 14%
The beer glass thing still applies in some pubs, mostly remote ones in the outback. Turning a glass upside down does indicate you're looking for a fight - most city people and people younger than myself (50's) don't know what it means and those that do ignore it because no one with half a brain wants to get into a fight nowadays, and if the bar staff are on the ball they'll kick anyone that does that out of the pub, so it's unlikely you'll see someone do it anymore, but now and then I still come across the occasional drunk old fella that gets into a bad mood and upturns his glass. Laying it on its side means you've had enough to drink. Placing it on the bar right way up and empty means you want another drink.
Has Alberteasy snuck in the Medicare increase without people being aware of it. I had to have a heart scan, but couldn’t as I had had one only a year previously, Medicare had said they will only cover 1 test every 2 yrs. So if you have heart problems and need scans , makes no difference what type of Centrelink Benefit you are on. On top of that if you need to go to a private specialist they won’t see you if you don’t have private cover! Things are getting better with Labour!
That is a young Magpie & they can be very curious as Juveniles .
My guess light out we got to see what the reporter did darkness 😂😂😂
Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍
I prefer the staff to take my order, it’s more personal and I develop customer/staff relationships with them, which helps enormously for top service.
The light colour of that maggie indicates a young bird, it has probably become habitualized to getting some food when it comes up to people and, being young and bold, it decided to hope on old mate to try and butter him up.
the magpies are lovely, most Aussie homes in older generations people have pet ones that they feed on a daily visit, been here many decades, never been attacked by 1, just avoid their areas in mating season as very protective of their young
The thing about pub fights back in the day is that it was most mostly between two guys who were drunk, but it would normally would be all over very quickly. Sure, you'd probably wind up with a few bruises, but it would often follow up with a shaking hands of hands and buying each other a beer. These days, it is more likely to involve people who are not drunk and end in someone being knifed or king hit from behind by some low low-life coward which would result in serious life-threatening injury or death. Jeez, I wish I could go back to those times.
In my home town the quickest way to get into a pub fight was to walk into 1 you weren't a regular at, i had mates i went to school with that drank at what was known as the yuppie pub opposed to where i drank at the swinging arms(known as that since my dad was a kid who was born in 1935) who wouldn't come in to get me when ready to head out cruising or so 😂
Depends on the Doctor’s Practice and what they decide to charge for and if they have to send the blood test away to be tested? If you go to a Medical Centre they usually have their own pathology department and that’s when the cost is bulk billed!!
America prices things by the month, but its weekly here in Aus, that would have been $8 a week for food, not per month
I had bood tests today and that was free. Just found out I'm pregnant and asbim high risk I need more care.. I have a scan on Monday which is costing $275 and then a standard doctor's appointment on Thursday is $98...good news is the obstetrics appointments are free
At least if someone put theyre glass on the bar to start a fight, you knew it wasnt gonna get jammed in your face , which was a common occurance here in the 70s and 80s. Most expenses in OZ are usually weekly and people here were having fist fights in supermarkets over "bog roll". If you split a magpies tongue when they are young they can speak better english than a cockatoo. We had a family of maggies that used to come into our house to get a feed. They would sqwark at the door to come inside, very friendly in the right environment but they will attack you if you come too close to their nest in the wild...
I've never paid for any tests, even when I had CT and MRI
G'day Mate!About products coming from OS etc...Coles used to sell crumbed whiting fillets and they were product of Australia but processed in Vietnam...Yep! They were caught off WA and sent to Vietnam to be filleted and crumbed then sent back to Australia...I haven't seen them for a while though... I would just buy the fresh and crumb them myself... Cheers!
Here in Portugal, I only pay 5€ to do blood tests
My wage in a well paid job when I started work in 1972 was $30.00 per week.
the first time a restaurant expected me to use a QR code i scoffed and walked out. and every time thereafter. money talks bullshit walks
Pub culture, yep glass upside down, just not on. Do that …… start ducking. Finished your beer live it upright and order another the same glass would be used. Leave it on its side means you’ve done drinking or want a fresh glass.
I’m not sure how it works these days since I’m on the age pension, but if you get a medical bill, you pay it and take the receipt to Medicare and they will process your full or partial refund.
No snakes in New Zealand!
With the QR code debate, I still use a dumbphone, mainly because it doesn't matter how many times I drop it, it ain't breaking (yes it is a Nokia), and it works in places most smartphones don't, also there are people (mainly older) who don't have phones at all. The birds can be cool, we have a flock of Splendid Fairy Wrens that hang around where I work, and are quite happy to flit through the lunchroom while everyone is sitting down. Finally, New Zealand has less 'wacky' animals than Australia, mainly because it is a geologically younger landmass, AU is on old continental shield landmass while NZ is a young active landmass that is part of the 'Pacific Ring of Fire', so the wackiness has had less time to evolve (although they still have some wacky animals).
QR codes can bring you to scam sites.
Dunnies chock-a-block with snakes. Time to call Drain Cleaning Australia and fire the bloody jet up.
Yeah, those videos would make good material for Ian.
New Zealand does have some mammals native before humans - there were a few species of bats. Which were also weird. But yeah, pretty much all birds and reptiles. But weird birds and reptiles.
we don't go by monthy payments Ian Oz is weekly
I earned about 40,000 Belgian francs (1000 euros) when I started working, paid 250 euros on rent and about 250 euros on groceries. Now my rent is about 1/2 of what I earn and groceries are about 1/3rd while taking care of two teenagers. Times definitely have changed.
Been down Gunshot creek when it was far worse, thankfully in the passenger seat and once you get the back wheels to the drop it is a free fall and we actually hit the bottom and drove out with about 100kg of mud stuck to the front
With regard to the amounts in the 1977 interview, I would suspect they are talking about weekly income and outgoings rather than monthly. I began working in 1985 and earned $114 per week as an office junior at age 17, however that is in a small country town where we do not get the same wages as in a city (unless you work for a government department of large company - of which there are few in country/rural areas).
The drunk said something unintelligible followed by the inner city suburb of Woolloomooloo.
And because Gerald Stone, the migrant American journo said barr, the Aussie thought he said burrough, because we don’t pronounce our final Rs. We say bah. The Aussie heard burrough, so he was confused. Gerald Stone moved to Australia in 1962 and lived and worked here until his death in 2020 at age 87.
That 4x4 was on the main road to the north.
8:51 And to think that the $AU is almost half the value of the $US, today
My last experience with medical things. I was told to go back to my doctor and have them specify the thing they were looking for in my test. If its just a generic test even with a referral it would cost me. I went back to my doc and said can you add the thing we are looking for in the test. He added torn ligaments ( not a blood test but same premise applies.)
QR codes can go to hell
flipping your glass is basically you announcing to the pub you are the toughest person in the pub and challenging anyone to prove you wrong
ICC T20 Cricket world cup has a game in Chicago Sunday!
Regarding the whole QR codes for menus at restaurants thing, I have yet to encounter it personally, but my thoughts on it are that it's really fine, as long as you still have the option of a physical menu, if scanning a QR code is the ONLY way of accessing the menu then I say HELL NO! But if it's just an alternative option for those who want to use it, then I'd have no problem with it!
My wife is a doc, not all tests blood or otherwise are entirely covered by medicare. So that first post isn't actually unusual.
I have to have a lot of blood tests and they are always free but I’ve been told that they are starting to charge for certain types of blood tests which isn’t cool for the current government.
Stralia !
Love the L’s plate on the shelf.
Can't see what the tests are, but not all tests are covered by Medicare. Also depends who by/where the tests are ordered from. Some GPs order the weirdest/rare tests (up to and including genetic tests done overseas and/or not deemed relevant by Aus health standards.) And as an aside, most private pathology companies can only bill Medicare for the three most expensive tests, rest are done for free. Unless ordered by a Specialist, then can charge for all tests ordered.
Glass upside down on bar was still a challenge to all comers in Western/Central Queensland in the 80s.
Peanuts were primarily grown in Kingaroy, South Burnett Queensland until they started massive irrigating in WA/NT, now a lot of peanut farms have changed crops as money no longer there as imports cheaper. But still order mine from The Peanut Van, especially Hickory (for Christmas) and Curry flavours.
Worst interaction with a local mammal I've seen was an Arts student decide to try and pick up an injured Ringtail with baby on back. Short version, Ringtail ran into scrub, we wrapped students arm in towel and took to ED.
Medicare used to bulk bill, but not they don't cover the full cost so there's a "gap" payment between what Medicare pays is $70, cost is $100 U have to pay the $30, that's how Medicare is "failing" to keep up with medical cost inflation costs .
There are doctors who bulk bill, just not as many as there once was. My doctor bulk bills me. I never have to pay anything.
My doctors bulk bill , not as many as before but shop around.
Yeah it uses to be almost all of them, my GP has been my GP for 20 years, and he doesn't charge me higher than the Medicare cover, but his practices fee's are higher than what Medicare cover, they used to be the right amount but GP costs have had to go higher, but Medicare doesn't raise the cover amount to meet it. Most Drs that bulk bill only spend 10 mins with a patient, my GP will spend a 15 min consult and spend 30 to 45 mins with me and charge no extra... And he cares, not many Drs will give U their own personal phone number for emergencies!!!
Isn’t Alberteasy just great with what he is doing to Medicare, if we wait another year or two we will be like in America!
In 1972 at 16 I started work at 22 Australian dollars a week and adult would earn 65 to 70 week unskilled
The Au$ was closer to the US$ back then
There are endless videos of people not making it through gunshot. Unfortunately they just create traffic jams - luckily people travel with cb radios so you know to exit the Tele track before there is no turning back - and much to the relief of passengers not wanting to go that way :)
Cheers from Canberra, it's getting cold...
14:55 It's a baby magpie, likely used to friendly monkeys so far!_
Turning your glass upside down in a pub is “saying you’ll fight anyone in the pub”. If I remember correctly (I could be wrong) but laying your glass to the left ment you want another beer & laying it to the right ment you had enough, no more.
There was another one or two things with glass positions but someone else might remember them.
Yep little central Vic town i grew up in it was upside down fight anyone willing, but laying it down was I'm done and going home but leaving it upright meant waiting for a refill although some publican's would ask first to be sure
@@robertleeimages Usually people just left their money on the counter too, the barmaid would just take the money for the beer without interrupting the customer.
My old dad was born (Melbourne) in the 30’s, he told me about the glass tilting tips in the 70’s, (I was just a kid at the time) I do remember there was about 5 different meanings with the tilted empty glass/pot.
@@IcanbePsycho yep the money thing too completely forgot about that, and no doubt the rest will come to you but I'm only aware of the others. I'll keep checking back to see if you remember them, it'll be interesting to know 👍
Australia has some of the oldest plants and animals on earth and some of the oldest geography and exposed ocean beds
I hate the QR code instead of a menu!!! Luckily in my town of Oostende, Belgium I haven't seen it yet but I've seen it a lot in Brugges (which is a 30 minute drive). I do kinda get that it is more of a thing in Brugges because in the very touristy areas the QR code menu is probably a cheaper way to have a menu in a lot of different languages. But they should still have at least the option of an actual menu in our language (Flemish/Dutch) and maybe French and English too.
i belive some blood tests in australia, you get 1 free of some types each year but you pay if you need a repeat test of the same type, this is only some tests....
Okay, so there is a lot going on here - pathology in terms of businesses being viable is under threat, because Medicare has not increased it's payments to them in line with increasing costs for a very long time. Staff are working on well below correct pay. Current movement and petitions against this. Possibly some tests are payment required - others may charge very high if the test was the same test, within a certain time frame. This can all be prior checked by people going to the Medicare website.
One issue is that rent and house prices have zoomed out of all proportion in Australia. Gentrification is a major culprit. For example, in 1977, a Melbourne student could rent a room in a shared student house in Carlton at a very low rent. Now, because of gentrification, Carlton is a major epicentre of fashionable living, not significantly cheaper than Toorak, the number one suburb. Even in the distant suburbs it is not cheap to find accommodation. Thank you for the video. I appreciate your content. 👍🇺🇸🇦🇺
Ian that lady’s wage is weekly we never get paid monthly. When I was 21 in 1979 my one bedroom flat cost me about $25 a week and that included electric and gas. My first job out of school in 1974 was about $26 a week and had to pay $10 a week for board to my mum. So not much left. I’m a kiwi and first moved to Australia in 1976 and my first flat I think cost me about $40 a week plus utilities extra. I always had spare money to buy cigarettes and beer 😂😂
It depppends, our system works like this, you go to a public doctor, the docter will order blood tests = free. you go to a private doctor......
Some testing and pathology is free if requested by a specialist, but not by your GP. Depends a bit on the test, and you should have been informed in advance of getting the test done. Same with CT scans, MRIs, etc. Also if you get a test done in a private hospital, you'll pay for it, but can often claim it back from your medical insurance.
19:17 My ex-husband and I did that years ago but I can’t remember it being that steep. It was still steep but definitely not that bad😀
12:52 I made the same face and noice: "oof!". Absolutely... Cost of living isn't fun.
I mean, €3,89 for one loaf of bread? I can pay up to €80,xx per week in groceries, for just me alone.
That is besides my 3 pet guinea pigs too. One bag of pellets, 1,75kg: €15,xx...
I really need to watch my bankbalance or I will go negative.
TEAS - the income & expenses mentioned would have been weekly (or at the most fortnightly) - not monthly.
Depends if the gp giving the referral is free or if your paying for the visit
At least if you can order from a app, you don't have to put up with shitty service, especially if the eating establishment is busy.
So these idiots think now that everybody carries a mobile phone with them? No wonder some of these places are going broke. I don't need to get an app to pay for lunch or a beer I have cash or a card, then I've heard the app asks for a tip???