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2014 Australian Government Budget |OT| Throw some debt on the barbie
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AdventureRacing
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I have family ties to England and it would be easy enough to get a nursing job there. If i wasn't worried about my families future i'd be getting the fuck outta here.
Increase the cost of seeing a GP. Increase the cost of prescription medications. Cut funding to hospitals. Cut welfare to the poor. What could possibly go wrong?
Increase the cost of seeing a GP. Increase the cost of prescription medications. Cut funding to hospitals. Cut welfare to the poor. What could possibly go wrong?
favouriteflavour
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If the all the poor folk die, pension burden drops. Genius.
Rychu Supadude
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Man, I have just completely given up on trying to understand what these guys are doing... There doesn't seem to be any coherent methodology at all, it's like they're just making announcements for the sake of making announcements. I just... I'm out, I can't do this anymore!
AdventureRacing
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Might also help eliminate some of our aging population. Two birds with one stone.
No taxes, just levies! Get it right, Jinty.
Uncle Rupert certainly giving Aunty a good old rogering.
favouriteflavour
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I think by opportunity, he means bootstraps will be handed out.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Dumb fucking society reaps what it sows.
New Zealand
It sounds like he's seconds away from singing Be Prepared from the Lion King. Holy moly.
AdventureRacing
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Honestly i knew Abbott was a bastard and i knew that liberals would fuck things up but they've went far more than i ever thought they would. It's still early times for this government as well.
I won't be bringing any children into this country. The future is looking to be a scary place for people being born in the future and i think i'm content without having kids.
I won't be bringing any children into this country. The future is looking to be a scary place for people being born in the future and i think i'm content without having kids.
1% budget cut seems pretty low.
This budget is like half "Yeah that is a good idea, I wonder why they didn't do that before?" and half "WHY YOU MORON THAT'S SO STUPID."
Tax increase on top income earners, extending HECS to trade schools, stricter means testing for welfare payments (you don't need government handouts when you're earning $150k. If anyone gives me this 'bububu it's hard to make ends meet on that' business you need to take your kids out of private school, sell your McMansion and stop going on holidays) = good. Even some of the dole changes seem okay. I literally have no idea why work-for-the-dole isn't some awesome scheme for public works as it is. Down on your luck and need some assistance from the government? No worries, but while you're looking for a job make yourself useful and dig some holes or do some data entry. Seems like a good idea to me (I have no idea if that's actually what work-for-the-dole is but that's what it should be).
GP co-payments, (essentially) cuts to the pension and disability, fuel excise (while leaving the diesel subsidies), etc = BAD YOU MORONS.
I'm also probably alone on this but I hate that the economy is continuing to shift in a direction where both parents are required to work, and I hate that the government is pushing in this direction. As someone who benefited from a stay at home mum, I find it sad that it's basically now an economic impossibility for the average family living in Sydney to have one parent stay at home.
This budget is like half "Yeah that is a good idea, I wonder why they didn't do that before?" and half "WHY YOU MORON THAT'S SO STUPID."
Tax increase on top income earners, extending HECS to trade schools, stricter means testing for welfare payments (you don't need government handouts when you're earning $150k. If anyone gives me this 'bububu it's hard to make ends meet on that' business you need to take your kids out of private school, sell your McMansion and stop going on holidays) = good. Even some of the dole changes seem okay. I literally have no idea why work-for-the-dole isn't some awesome scheme for public works as it is. Down on your luck and need some assistance from the government? No worries, but while you're looking for a job make yourself useful and dig some holes or do some data entry. Seems like a good idea to me (I have no idea if that's actually what work-for-the-dole is but that's what it should be).
GP co-payments, (essentially) cuts to the pension and disability, fuel excise (while leaving the diesel subsidies), etc = BAD YOU MORONS.
I'm also probably alone on this but I hate that the economy is continuing to shift in a direction where both parents are required to work, and I hate that the government is pushing in this direction. As someone who benefited from a stay at home mum, I find it sad that it's basically now an economic impossibility for the average family living in Sydney to have one parent stay at home.
It does have its good points - I do think the funding to medical research is a good idea, the HECs to trade schools is good, means testing is okay if implemented in such a way it isn't just a huge waste of time/money which it usually is - but the bad ideas are so, so, so bad
What degree are you doing?
AdventureRacing
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The bad so out weighs the good that it's hard to really give a shit about the positives.
Ban Puncher
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Randy Monk
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Sell their fridge and console/s!
6 months of Newstart is roughly 6K. Thats gonna hurt if they don't have savings.
Just finished Arts degree in Politics/International Affairs. Was doing Combined with Law, but decided to take on an Honours year in Arts, so eventually I'll finish with a Law/Arts (Honours) double degree. Considering the competition for graduate positions and that Newcastle Uni isn't exactly USYD or ANU, don't really like my odds now.
/dead.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sure if serious.
Australian Budget 2014 by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
Gina's a cunt, that's why
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A More Normal Bird
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This is similar to what's sometimes known as a Job Guarantee, and it's something that for all their talk about being tough on welfare and wanting everyone to be productive, the Liberals would rather die than introduce.
It is hilarious, Sarah is making him look like a bumbling fool. Which he is. No apologies indeed.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Hockey is a fucking pig.
AdventureRacing
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Can someone explain the newstart change to me? It sounds like you have to wait 6 months before you get it and then you only get it for 6 months before having it taken off you for 6 months on a rotating basis. Is this accurate? If so, that's pretty incredible.
And he's sweating like one.
He's fucking angry, totally on the attack even though Sarah seems to be on his side or than anything.
Ban Puncher
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So I have to pay more for doctor visits and required medications but get less money to do so.
Seems legit.
Seems legit.
6 months for people under 30 = no welfare.
I tell you what, as someone who has been lucky enough to have always had support during that time, I personally can't complain. But holy shit, that will absolutely FUCK so many other people who dont have that support.
Especially when people live in places where there is little work, and where the cost of rent in places where there is work is absolutely exorbitant.
I tell you what, as someone who has been lucky enough to have always had support during that time, I personally can't complain. But holy shit, that will absolutely FUCK so many other people who dont have that support.
Especially when people live in places where there is little work, and where the cost of rent in places where there is work is absolutely exorbitant.
Dastardly Jerks
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Because Abbott is going to town on Gina Rineharts gunt.
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