Am I dreaming but I was sure that an Australian thing exists (or Australian segment of a bigger system) where a client pays a fee to post a narrow legal question, lawyers respond and get paid.
Is this a lawyer-only system that the generally public cannot access?
Is it in Westlaw or Jade similar?
Or did I just imagine it.
No internet at home this morning so I did the usual troubleshooting. Checked iiNet network status, then checked my cables, then rebooted. Still down.
Modem admin page (and system log) says DSL down so I called iiNet support.
Customer agent says there is a Vision Network outage in parts of Canberra. Not showing on the network outage page but visible to her on their internal system!
TL/DR: can’t connect NBN because builder didn’t follow the right process years before I bought the place.
Situation is a strata townhouse, part of a “small strata” by state planning laws (<6 properties). No strata management company, just a committee of owners who meet the basic strata requirements but would rather do nothing. Importantly they do not like agreeing to pay for anything.
New development was completed in 2020 (just before Covid shut everything down). Due to Covid or laziness, the builder didn’t submit NBN paperwork. NBN still has the previous property in its database- one address that is now multiple separately owned parcels; although technically the starts is still one entity at that original address. The builder has ceased operating.
Because individual townhouses aren’t on the NBN database it was not possible to sign-up with any ISP. Other owners have given-up and just use 5G internet.
So I contacted NBN and did the builder’s job by submitting the “new development” paperwork. This was a chore because they wanted engineering level drawings I don’t have. Anyway, 6 months later we finally have NBN acknowledging there are now multiple properties here.
So back to the ISP and finally it’s possible to start the connection process, with a $300 fee for a new connection. But the tech who arrived on site says there is no way to connect the cable from the node to the property- there should be a strata-owned NBN pit or cabinet on the common property. We have a cabinet for phone lines, but it’s not labelled NBN so the ISP tech won’t touch it. Can’t they use copper phone lines for the last leg?
This all seems crazy. ISP says it’s an NBN issue and they can’t help. NBN won’t talk to me - tells me to call the ISP.
Anyone solved this? Advice would be appreciated.
Maybe I’m missing something, but an annual statement is just a summary of the database entries for a member and simple calculation of a few payroll numbers that were set in stone on 30 June.
Why does it take until October to generate and email members a PDF file? (Acknowledging paper version would take a bit longer).
This is probably just a whinge, but I’m curious. To what extent must a hotel’s advertised room offering (photos and descriptions on the website) match reality — within reason?
For example: the site offers a king bed room of Xm2 with amenities such as en-suite, desk, TV, safe, etc. where photos show a modern, clean, spacious, well appointed room.
Customer decides to book and pay the offered non-refundable price in advance (contract). Contextually, due to an event other hotels subsequently book-out and by the time of the stay, there is no longer an option to go elsewhere.
But after check-in, the room is found to be very, very different to its description and photos. The room is old, dirty (literal mould and tiny flies infested), old worn carpet, a tiny window compared with the photos showing expansive glass, and a desk that would not even suit a 1950s primary school child instead of the large modern glass desk in the photos. The list goes on.
TLDR: is the bed the only obligatory thing to provide, and everything else is flavour?
If one single refitted room exists in the hotel can they take photos of that room because it’s technically ‘available’ even if there’s a 99% chance of being accommodated in one of the other 350 rooms which haven’t been updated.