Yeah, me too, me. Must have hit the button just at the right minute last week though - got 26.1 on a swift transfer to Bangkok Bank. It was like Christmas.

AUD rose a little yesterday vs USD as RBA in Australia left its interest rates on hold 

Looks likely there'll be another rate cut later this year, which will likely lead to a weaker AUD vs USD, so unless THB also continues to weaken vs USD, there could well be less THB for your AUD later in the year.

You never know what will happen, but the risk is there
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RBA Coy on Further Rate Cut After Holding Fire; Aussie Jumps
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-02/australia-keeps-key-rate-unchanged-as-currency-relieves-pressure

Australia left its key interest rate unchanged at a record low and was coy on whether further cuts would be needed to boost growth, sending the currency higher.
Central bank Governor Glenn Stevens and his board kept the cash rate at 2 percent in Sydney Tuesday, as predicted by traders and economists. “Monetary policy needs to be accommodative” as the economy is likely to operate with spare capacity “for some time yet,” Stevens said.

Australia has had little success in stimulating industries outside housing as a decade-long mining boom winds down, with businesses planning to cut investment in the next 12 months by the most on record. Meanwhile, Sydney and part of Melbourne’s property market are in a low-rate-fueled bubble.
“They’re kind of in a wait-and-see mode,” said Su-Lin Ong, head of Australian economic and fixed-income strategy at Royal Bank of Canada in Sydney. “I wouldn’t say there’s a clear easing bias, but we know from the forecasts that it is probably more implicit.”
Stevens said in the final paragraph of his statement that the Reserve Bank of Australia would use data over the period ahead to determine whether its policy was correctly set to boost growth and keep inflation consistent with its target.

Market Reaction

The Australian dollar rose half a U.S. cent after the statement failed to chart an explicit course for policy and traded at 76.84 cents at 3:20 p.m. in Sydney, while stocks extended declines. Traders are pricing in 20 basis points of easing in the next 12 months, or less than a quarter-point cut.
Australia, an engine room of the decade-long global commodity boom, forecasts a 90 percent plunge in spending on mining projects, calling time on its biggest resources bonanza since the 1850s gold rush.
“With very slow growth in labor costs, inflation is forecast to remain consistent with the target over the next one to two years,” Stevens said.

The nation’s economic growth probably cooled to 2.1 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace since 2013, economists predicted ahead of data tomorrow.
“Weak wages growth is going to keep inflation low even with a low exchange rate and that tells you quite clearly that if activity disappointed, then the labor costs-inflation story would give them room to ease further,” RBC’s Ong said.

Hehe. I have small holdings in BHP and RIO.

Along with the banking sector, which is well run, these two will be come up on the radar of people looking at Aussie stocks, as Australian stocks are have large resource and banking sectors.

Both BHP and RIO have had a tough time - especially in the last year.

They bring out a good point in trading/ investing: if I'm to buy, understand why I am buying and what my strategy is.

The way I'v played these over time is by buying and selling within ranges. In the last 3 years or so holding these, I have sold some of each stock over 20 times when prices have reason, then buy back on pullbacks. This strategy means that realised losses taken along the way + dividends received outweighed the unrealised loss compared to if someone simply bought and hold. So basically have been range trading these rather than buy and hold investing. It's not my preferred way to do things - as in and out trading is more time consuming. But buy and hold for investment hasn't been a great way for anyone trying that in the last few years.

Both also have decent yields: 7.5% BHP and 6.5% RIO, so for someone wanting AUD income, who can accept and ride out capital fluctuations and won't want to touch the capital/sell - just collect dividends long term for the income stream, now at this point they're also not too bad.

The worst strategy to have been in for these would have been buy and hold medium term 2-5 years say, looking for total returns/ capital gains.

Better strategies: Either dynamically trade them short term by add/reduce in/out; or hold long term for the dividend yields, accepting capital will fluctuate and tolerating the ups and downs, knowing you don't need to touch capital - the difference here you are buying the income stream as your objective rather than looking to make capital gains. So key is meeting your objectives.

Do you hold the UK versions or the Australia versions?

For Aussie stocks on ASX: the banks look decent value: ANZ, NAB and Westpac are 3 I hold all on P/Es of 11-13 and div yields over 8%. Will be looking to add to these. Even Commonwealth CBA now has a P/E under 15 and div yield > 7%, the only one of the Big4 Aussie bank's I don't hold

Just biding my time tho' in case of summer weakness, and further weakness of AUD - now at 0.764. Think there may be even lower entry levels, so not in a rush to add, although they are fine at these levels.

Well 3 months on from this and we're around AUD/USD 0.71 so close to that 0.70 mark I was looking for. Now just over 25 vs THB

The China impact has also made Aussie stocks cheaper.

Definitely looking interesting and will be looking closer in next few days, although very busy at the moment. But keeping an eye out for long term adding to positions

yesterday i saw twice for some minutes 69.xx and vs. THB we are presently at 24.668 - but seriously... who gives a f.... except the Aussies?