asio posted:

so get a new better job? Newstart doesn't cover a mortgage either.

starkebn posted:

asio posted:

Sorry, yes, bad post. Actual solution: nationalise all mortgages so that in financial hardship you can still keep your home.

bowmore posted:

Wouldn't cost of living just rise?

100 Aussie Comedians posted:

Dear Rich White Men Who Are In Charge Of Things,
We the undersigned are professional dickheads. Between us, we have decades of experience in getting away with making people laugh and acting like it’s a respectable living. We say swears and we talk about genitals and farts and Facebook and first world problems and we wear silly costumes and shout our opinions at drunken hecklers in pubs and bars and tents across this great nation.
We ain’t no high-falutin’ city lawyers. We don’t know heaps about the constitution or the intricate details of the Migration Act or international conventions on human rights.
Indeed, many of us often fail to use the English words good and stuff.
But we know when something isn’t funny. At one time or another we’ve all delivered a line that we think is SOLID GOLD, only to be met with deafening silence. This is known as “bombing” or “comic death”. It is the worst possible experience for a comedian. Bombing elicits a sudden and powerful sensation of overwhelming dread and shame. It immediately compels you to reconsider all of your life choices and makes you want to go home and curl up into a little ball and nuzzle a bottle of wine and cry.
To us, the idea of deporting vulnerable people seeking asylum to Nauru to face the very things they sought protection from is a really, really bad joke. Like, no good. At all. We understand that the recent decision by the High Court technically makes this sort of thing legal, but that doesn’t mean it’s worth pursuing. Other things that are legal include smoking and wearing Crocs.
Come on, bros: we’re talking about 37 babies here. You politicians are supposed to kiss babies, not deport them.
As people who wear our hearts on our sleeve and who are often cynical about most things, we’re appealing to your decency and your humanity and asking you to let these people remain in Australia. Here in the community they can receive the support they need, begin to rebuild their lives and hey, maybe even come on down to a comedy show to laugh their cares away.
Yes, it is a super sticky area of public policy. But even we professional dickheads can see this isn’t the way to go about it.
Trust us, Prime Minister Turnbull and Minister Dutton – there’s nothing funny about this shemozzle.
Please get to work on some new material ASAP.
We say: #LetThemStay.

open24hours posted:

That sounds exactly like the kind of thing Adam Hills would write.

Birb Katter posted:

Birdstrike posted:

So apparently I can deliver all the glorious lefty things I want (no high speed rail, that's dumb) without even touching the GST or super AND keeping negative gearing AND have 40bn net revenue.

Sign me the gently caress up.

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Yeah, I played around with it as well and it just can't be that easy. Can it?

MysticalMachineGun posted:

Yeah, I played around with it as well and it just can't be that easy. Can it?

open24hours posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/10/australians-to-bypass-car-dealers-and-import-directly-from-japan-and-uk

Gonna get me the sickest drift weapon.

[edit: I reed gud. Bastards still protecting the used car industry.]

asio posted:

Sorry, yes, bad post. Actual solution: nationalise all mortgages so that in financial hardship you can still keep your home.

Someone who doesn't need to worry about getting membership so the AEC reinstates their legitimacy posted:

Gambling addict sentenced for embezzling almost $180,000 from government disability department

A Sydney woman who embezzled almost $180,000 from a government service for people with disabilities has been sentenced to 18 months home detention.

Caroline Portolesi, 38, was the Maroubra branch manager of the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS).

Her role was to organise and pay for services such as cleaning and home care for people with disabilities.

Portolesi used a stolen identity to set up a fraudulent business, Esay Cleaning Services. She then used that business to invoice FACS for work that was never actually done.

In December 2015, Portolesi pleaded guilty to obtaining financial advantage by deception.

Portolesi told police she stole from her employer because she had a gambling addiction.

In deciding against imprisonment in a corrections facility, Judge Stapelton accepted submissions relating to Portolesi's gambling addictions and complex mental health issues.

The Department of Family and Community Services said they were "undertaking a forensic review" of their systems.

A quadriplegic client of Portolesi, Peter Zipfinger said: "I think it is one of the lowest acts there is, to be stealing yours and my money from a sector that needs it most."

Amethyst posted:

Not sure how a corrupt embezzler has any bearing whatsoever on ScreamingLlama's ideas on welfare fraud.

Amethyst posted:

Not sure how a corrupt embezzler has any bearing whatsoever on ScreamingLlama's ideas on welfare fraud.

hooman posted:

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it points toward the majority of fraud (by dollar value) is not being committed by people on welfare especially when compared to white collar crime.

hooman posted:

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it points toward the majority of fraud (by dollar value) is not being committed by people on welfare especially when compared to white collar crime.

Birb Katter posted:

Not sure how someone committing welfare fraud has any bearing whatsoever on Llamas ideas on welfare fraud? Good job

Amethyst posted:

Ok, but they are entirely unrelated crimes.

hooman posted:

They are both defrauding the government of money...

How many mates deals are there with property investors, with preferred contractors, with developments, grants, land approvals do you think are entirely above board?

How many private investigators is the government hiring to track these down? All of it is fraud committed against the Australian Government.

hooman posted:

EDIT: ^^ I'm pretty sure embezzlement is a type of fraud.

tithin posted:

Scott Ludlam salty as gently caress

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

Bifauxnen posted:

Except the thing SL was specifically worried about was that there was less money available to welfare recipients like him, thanks to welfare cheats.

We are pointing out something that is an even bigger problem, that threatens his pool of welfare money even more, and thus should get him even more outraged.

gay picnic defence posted:

I guess it would if the money was given out equally to everyone but you might be able to get around that by re-jigging the tax structure so that above a certain point you start paying an additional levy which effectively takes back the UBI money you received. The amount could be calculated weekly/fortnightly based on how much employment income you have bought in. Wouldn't need any addition bureaucracy because it would just be an automatic calculation.

Failing that, the government could just step in and set prices for everything to stop the cost of living from going up