The ScoMo Government
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reminds me of Paul Hogan and Strop
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Penalty rates - hits those who aren't full time workers, or aren't on an annualised salary.
Labor last time in office (Gillard) - made it almost impossible to qualify for disability support pension, so most who can't work due to disability end up on jobstart.
The Disability Support Pension's False Crisis – Opinion – ABC Ramp Up (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
There are perfectly good reasons why the number of people on Disability Support Pensions is increasing and none of them have anything to do with people cheating the system, writes Peter Horbury from Social Security Rights Victoria.
www.abc.net.au
Tens of thousands of people applying for disability support are being turned away
Around 60 per cent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension are getting rejected, because of a crackdown that started under the Gillard government.
www.abc.net.au
History is littered with Government initiatives that hurt some, the flaw is, being so blinkered as to think only one side of politics do it.
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Or Kevin Rudd and a forlorn RAAF flight attendant. ?
PM apologises for mid-air meltdown
The PM has apologised for verbally abusing a flight attendant after not being served the meal he wanted.
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That's worth a correction
Many full time workers are rostered on weekends and/or late shifts and it's these people I worry about the most because their income is reduced if penalty rates are cut.
On the aside... folks talk about both major parties being unattractive options...
Reminds me of the good ole days
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Penalty rates apply to people who work the hours they apply to under the relevant award, and have nothing to do with whether part-time, full-time or casual. Salaried workers do not get award penalty rates.
In fact Gillard revised the Impairment Tables which are used in Disability Support Pension assessments to measure how a person's impairment affects their ability to work, as they were last reviewed in 1993. The legislative changes determined the work a person could do rather than what they could not do, so your point is completely wrong.
DSP claims had risen dramatically as the unemployment benefit rate (Newstart allowance) was $131 a week below the DSP, and claims had increased by 100000 in the previous 2 years.
This forum is littered with posts that are poorly based.
If your lucky/unlucky enough to qualify for it
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Living in WA, ill just wait awhile, thanks
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The changes were probably written by you Rob.lol
A brickie with a knackered back, could still be re trained as a computer coder, as it only requires sitting skills.
I got a mate on about $250k half of it gone to the taxman. Comes to a point where it's not worth working that many hours.
From memory about 90 to 100k tax
On Barrow they were pushing to do more hours to complete the project and plenty were doing it knowing half was going to tax
Trying to explain more delays = more pays but greed kicks in
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Fascinating story. The Banks have $178 Billion sitting on deposit with the Reserve Bank. Worth thinking about in terms serious nation building/employment making opportunities.
The banks have $178 billion sitting on deposit with the Reserve Bank, earning zero interest. It was $155 billion a month ago. This is newly created money. In crude terms, the RBA is “printing” money hand over fist, but why are the banks not lending it? Why is there no nation-building infrastructure program like the US? Michael West investigates.
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Just think what it was like in the late 1970s, when the top rate was 60cents and cut in at $30k.lol
It never bothered me, but my late father in law was a headmaster and it really pizzed him off.
I had no sympathy, but now thinking back, it was pretty rough.
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Yes, maybe we could get a loan and start a company, what do you suggest?
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The big problem from what I've seen quite a few people go through:
Over 40 = a black mark against you in many industries especially those which are more about "doing" than "knowing".
Disabled in any way = huge strike against you.
Over 50 = forget it.
Nothing new about that, it was going on back in the 1980's and it still goes on today. It's all well and good that someone "could" do something but in practice there's an awful lot of businesses that are basically looking for young and perfectly fit staff. Anyone who fails either of those criteria is most unlikely to be considered.
Some industries it's even worse. The old "send a current photo of yourself" isn't so they recognise you when you turn up for the interview....
There's an awful lot of "one man and a van" type contractors around these days other than actual tradies. Ask those doing it and they'll just about all tell the same story of being retrenched from wherever and nobody would look at them once they realised they've been around a few years. So they bought a van and went into business out of necessity.
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Which is basically what was proposed.Regressive
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Point 2 - stopping the refund of excess tax paid for those who simply don't earn enough to have been required to pay it, whilst continuing to fully impute that tax paid for higher income individuals, fits within that pretty well.
