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Labor are supporting a move to scrap the student startup payment for students on youth allowance and austudy. Instead, students will be forced to go into even more HECS-HELP debt, just so they can afford clothing, electricity, and textbooks. Yay.
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Serrath posted:Isn't the start-up paying the twice yearly CL payments of approximately $1200 for people studying full time to help pay for books/incidental expenses related to your education? I'm on Aus-study now and every February and August there's a large bonus paid. It's always helped because it always seemed to coincide with some large expense that popped up. It was $1025/semester (at least for me on youth allowance it was). It's probably a typo/old page (lol at LNP hubris) TBH since this cut has been on the cards since the first budget. So they probably want to start it as of semester 1, 2016. I'm also interested to see if they let students borrow more than $2000/y for it.
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Amethyst posted:It's also wishful thinking on his part. Anyone who believes that a form of public income for the aged unemployed isn't going to be a necessity in the face of increasing automation and global consolidation is blind. Yeah, I can't imagine that many people are going to have enough super to completely live on after retirement, especially with an ever increasing life expectancy. It seems pretty obvious to me that the aged pension should be a livable payment for those who would otherwise struggle, seeing as it would be economically very silly to have a huge portion of the population being unable to buy anything. hooman posted:RIP me, I am undone. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Solemn Sloth posted:The first chance Howard got he loving burnt down the entire structure of industrial relations in this country. And sold everything that wasn't bolted down. Telstra alone could have brought in BILLIONS of dollars of revenue (not to mention drastically lowering the cost of constructing the NBN), but nope, we need tax cuts for the upper-middle classes!
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Dec 7, 2015 12:28
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If these latest terror arrests lead to actual charges, I'll eat my hat.
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Dec 10, 2015 00:19
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Charges laid. Joke's on you, I don't have a hat 
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Dec 10, 2015 00:59
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Serrath posted:There is no set of circumstances that could take place that would result in Trump being elected. Jeb Bush v Bernie Sanders is my prediction Sanders will win.
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Dec 11, 2015 06:50
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Solemn Sloth posted:Sanders will never ever ever be president of the United States Don't stomp on my dreams 
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Dec 11, 2015 07:00
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SynthOrange posted:http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/bishop-abbott-trump-and-the-politics-of-delusion-20151210-glkzip.html My Little Tony
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Dec 13, 2015 10:31
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Laserface posted:Monis was cool and good because two white people died. Yes this is clearly what we have said regarding this issue.
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Dec 15, 2015 02:01
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open24hours posted:Speaking of crocodile tears, is it OK to be cynical about the government's attempts to address domestic violence without reforming the welfare system? Absolutely. A lot of domestic violence involves financial abuse. The welfare system doesn't allow for financial independence, so it's really easy to get into a situation where you literally can't afford to leave (let alone the threat of retribution once you do).
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Dec 15, 2015 05:15
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chyaroh posted:Why not? It's simply the age the law has set as the minimum age. It just so happens that it aligns with the "age of majority" or whatever term you want to use for 18. In Tasmania, the minimum age for supply was 16 up until 1997. So if they've changed it once there's nothing to say they can do it again. Arguably the ISDS provisions only apply to the Federal Govt.
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Turntbull.
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