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 Bye you insane dork. Thanks for opposing some of the more ridiculous measures in that Hockey budget that one time.
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Kat Delacour posted:I do find that even the gap charge doctors in my area are still very reasonable and will let me go through as a bulk billing patient if I'm just in for something very quick like a script refill or referral update. Yeah, I've never not been bulk billed for either of these two things.
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Kat Delacour posted:Has anyone in the media seriously and specifically called out the repeated assertion of 80k as middle income? Because SloMo kept saying middle income over and over and over and over and over in his mini presser this morning and it makes my loving blood boil because surely if it's middle income I should know a few people who earn that much If someone called them out they'd probably site the ABS median household income, which was $80,704 in 2013-14. quote:While there is some good data on household incomes by organisations such as the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, every two years the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its survey of Household Income and Wealth. Buuuut... quote:As you might imagine, these figures are a bit misleading.  quote:It’s a bit hard to work out what you’d need to earn before tax to hit that median, assuming your income comes via work and not government benefits, which is rarely the case. But for a single person to take home $43,836 after income tax and the Medicare levy has been paid, they’d need to be on about $53,800.
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Oh yeah, one of my friends felt that quake in the APY lands so it must have rattled a pretty large area. I remember reading a report that suggested that Adelaide has a similar earthquake risk as Christchurch and then a couple of days later I read a newspaper article that casually mentioned that an elevated roadway there wasn't built with earthquake reinforcements. Despite what people say about Australia being tectonically inactive, there'll probably be an earthquake in Aus at some point that racks up a bit of a body count, maybe in Newcastle or Adelaide. Probably Adelaide, since historically the epicentre of earthquakes (like the 1954 one) has been less than 10km from the CBD.
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May 21, 2016 03:30
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Snod. posted:Vote #1 Anidav australia would got exploited by all the bigger nations
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MaliciousOnion posted:bugs_bunny_cutting_off_ I got your back son 
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The NXT thing isn't really a new phenomenon. A large minority of South Australians have voted third party since the 1980's. During the gradual collapse of manufacturing in the 20th century, Adelaide dropped from the third to the fifth largest city in terms of population and around the time Perth overtook Adelaide in the 80's Adelaide basically became Democrats heartland. At least personally I don't really think those two things are unrelated. After the Democrats disappeared from the scene Xenophon's vote started to increase, until the 2013 election, where he had a higher primary vote than the ALP. Basically as long as people (rightly) feel that NSW is overrepresented in Australian politics, a bunch of them will vote third party. I guess since it's mostly urban voters they're not voting for a joke of a person like Katter but I guess it's a similar principle to an region that feels neglected like FNQ. Though, with the exception of the northern suburbs which are doomed, I don't think Adelaide is in as long term strife as people think.
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I remember a few years back when I worked in a supermarket chain the SDA negotiated a new contract that shortened our breaks  Actually the managers just ignored it because even they realised that 10 minute breaks were a bit of a joke so even the hardline ones let us have 15 minutes.
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