Hope to be hitting the road at the end of this year. Neither of us will be on the pension and we would like to know how to cover ourselves for ambulance Australia wide. We also wont have a home address so are not covered by electricity bill.

Hi,

I also am not mature enough to be on pension yet . Been traveling for 4 years now. But I have top cover with private health insurance and this covers me for Ambulance as well Australia Wide, if I go OS have to adjust my cover for that.

Recommend you look at your prefered health insurance and enquire as ro what they provide in this area, may need adjusting of your cover but as with all insurance it is the security you think you have not so much the cover they will think about giving you.

Cheers

-- Edited by Alan8888 on Saturday 26th of February 2011 10:24:27 AM

-- Edited by Alan8888 on Saturday 26th of February 2011 10:25:26 AM

If you join you State Ambulance fund your covered Australia wide for all State Ambulance services.
ozjohn

Welcome to the forum Kingsvale!

If you go to NIB or any of the private funds you can get "Ambulance only" cover fairly cheaply.

With the Ambulance funds, make sure that it can be used interstate.

-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Saturday 26th of February 2011 10:46:00 AM

Thankyou for your reply. Can you also tell me what you do about electoral roll if you sell your house and have no address. thanks again

Welcome to the GN Forum, lots of good advice here at your fingertips I would assume that whatever address you have for your mail could be used for the purpose of the electoral roll. Maybe a call to the AEC would be the way to go. Kevin & Jan

Maybe just kept enrolled were you are now would be the best you would have some interest in that area

brickies wrote:

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Maybe just kept enrolled were you are now would be the best you would have some interest in that area

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Good idea Brickies... Easy enough to do a postal vote from anywhere.

 

Hi Again,

With regard to Electoral Roll, we have an address that is used for our mail (friend, family member, sibling would work) we maintain enroled for vote at that address,

BUT

We are enroled as itinerate and travel all the time so this means we are not required to vote in local elections but still remain required to vote in federal elections.
You can apply to do this at any electoral office.

Works well as you are posibly aware federal does not matter where you are but local by-elections are dificult if you travel away from state or area.

fulltime travellers do not have to enroll and vote.

Full time travellers have to be listed on the electoral roll. It can be at the last residential or long-term address, in the case of full time caravanners. We have to vote in federal elections, but they can't pin us down for state elections unless you really want to do it by postal vote. My vehicles are registered in WA, I have a SA address, I was living in Cairns, with an SA licence. I voted as a WA resident, absentee vote at a Cairns polling booth. You reckon that confused them?

traveling bob wrote:

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fulltime travellers do not have to enroll and vote.

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Every one has to vote sometime as I informed in my previous post when you enrol as itinerate voter you are required to vote in federal elections but not mandatory for state and local elections.

Alan8888 wrote:

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Hi Again,

With regard to Electoral Roll, we have an address that is used for our mail (friend, family member, sibling would work) we maintain enroled for vote at that address,

BUT

We are enroled as itinerate and travel all the time so this means we are not required to vote in local elections but still remain required to vote in federal elections.
You can apply to do this at any electoral office.

Works well as you are posibly aware federal does not matter where you are but local by-elections are dificult if you travel away from state or area.

-- Edited by Alan8888 on Monday 28th of February 2011 10:21:42 AM

Thankyou all who gave me an answer, all very helpful. Happy travels hope to see you on the road somewhere sometime