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The Australian software obviously replaced that with the surcharge functionality that other countries don't use 😅

Ironically Australia is the only place in the world where service staff have said things to me like "that's not my job" or "I'm not paid enough for that".

Yeah I've had this a few times overseas and thought it was really smart. They ask before ordering if you're planning to pay separately and then they take individual orders and bring everyone their own individual bill at the end. But also when they don't ask at the start, it's still never a...

Yeah never had an issue anywhere but in Australia. In most places it's part of normal service to ask if you would like to pay together or separately.

I think it was when there was a minority government or very small majority, the opposition started looking into everyone's ancestry to find people that may unknowingly be dual citizens and then use that to get them removed from parliament to try to get the majority power or force a by-election...

The dual citizen politician thing was crazy. Most of them never realised they'd been given citizenship of another country. And most of us laughed at them thinking how could they be so stupid not to know. But it does make sense if they'd never applied for it or tried to claim it. Seems this UK...

I've noticed some restaurants here have different menus for take away vs sit down service (higher prices on the eat in menu instead of having an "eat in surcharge") so no reason they couldn't do the same for weekend prices if they really want to have different prices on weekends. Another...

Australia is becoming a world leader in surcharges. Locals accept it, migrants question it. https://csferrie.medium.com/apparently-hypocrisy-is-not-un-australian-43bffa499c0c

I was at a restaurant today where they had a 10% weekend surcharge, but then a 5% discount if you paid by cash, or another 2% surcharge to pay by card. So however you paid, the amount on the menu and the total on the bill was a different amount to what you actually had to pay. If the...

Just might be questioned by overzealous check in agents who see a UK place of birth in the Australian passport. But as long as you can get the ETA approved, you should be fine.

My 4 week offer for 10,000 points never reappeared for week 2, though it's on my printed receipt. I've now been sent a new offer to spend $60 for 2000 points. Does this override the 4 week one?

In one of the news articles the UK High Commissioner was defending it saying they've been warning people since October 2024 !!

100%. I think it will be impossible for them to know, unless the ETA applicant ticked a box to self-declare they're also a UK citizen. I have doubts that the UK could match foreign passports to a citizenship database, but maybe that's actually quite easy these days? Even if they could, I doubt...

The problem will be getting to the UK in the first place. Airlines won't let you board the flight without an approved ETA (or UK passport). It all hinges on whether the UK cancels ETAs held by UK citizens and stops approving ETAs for people they know have UK citizenship. But how can they know...

Thanks, yeah Woolworths does seem to have much better IT...

I met my Week 1 spend but the 4 week offer has completely disappeared from my app/account. Should I bother with Week 2?

Were you able to use the NZ membership on AU domestic flights and sales, or just trans-tasman and NZ flights? The AU membership is back at $65 but the NZ one is still $50. I have a NZ passport but I live in Australia.

That I can understand because US citizens have to pay tax to the US government on worldwide earnings even if they don’t live there

So I'm guessing the UK doesn't have anything similar to Canada for this situation? Dual Canadian citizens can apply for permission to fly to Canada on a non-Canadian passport: Are you a dual Canadian citizen flying to Canada without a valid Canadian passport?

Yeah I pretty much just fly the golden triangle domestically, often at short notice, so I used to avoid Jetstar as much as possible, but it's getting harder to find reasonable prices on QF and VA if not booking months in advance.