I'd recommend you look for cheap alcohol sales in your local area and really stock up. You can get some good wines cheap, and often cases or even kegs of beer are on sale.
After you drink them take your empties to SA where you get a 5 cent refund each..................
Never tried the cat piss. Not planning on trying it either. :
Living south of the great Tassie beer divide I'll nominate Cascade as a good beer. If I lived in the north of the state then it would be Boags...
As for keeping cash, at present I have a significant amount in an ING online account although I'm getting a bit fed up with their increasing margins. They don't pass on the full rise in interest rates when they go up - 0.2% last time versus RBA rate rise of 0.25% and they've done this a few times now. No doubt their mortgage customers get the full rise passed straight through.
I'm looking around to see if there's a better deal without constantly increasing margins. Commonwealth and BankWest seem reasonable although it's a competitive market so the difference may not last.