OMG Centrelink are slow

i am not contesting that i shouldn't get paid now while overseas i am arguing the point that they should change it for the future. i to have to pay more ten just $200 for each course it is not $1300 but about $750 plus all those other things. the only way i can study cheap is in Australia. it is easy to say stay here or put up with the consequences but until you have spent time apart when the person you love most is on the opposite side of the world and you can hardly afford the flight alone i think comments on that matter should be kept to ones self. i have spent 4 months before it was hell opposite hours hardly anytime to talk now lets do that over 3 years, i know for some of you you think it would be a holiday but how about you spend 3 years apart from your mrs or your kids, you do not have a clue what it is like until you have been in the position i am. so you are with what the other guys are saying yet you have borrowed heaps of money from australia without much intention of paying it back?

Australia is a very isolated country and i have inspired people to come to Australia.
People are interested in Australia and Australians, as they no very little about the country all they think is, it is dry and we have natural disasters(due to the last few years). Part of the reason i want to work in international schools or schools overseas is not only for the experience but to teach people about Australia.
I must admit i do like how many people have completely missed or forgotten some of the things i have said

Bob10 i was at parliament when they were talking about the new introduction of uni fees(i think it was, or at least upping them anyway). Australia should be encouraging people to go to uni not making it harder, we all know that the mining boom and the mining business wont last forever, then what are we going to do with all those who work in the mines or in the companies who work with the mines. we are looking at probably at around 10% of Australia work force getting put out of work and even though this might not happen immediately it will happen and then think of all those other business that do not even have anything to do with the mines, ie servos and supermarkets they too will close. Australia needs to think more sustainable that is part of the reason why Sweden have uni free s they have a very low industrial market.

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Originally Posted by Pinelli

I think we need to go back to the original question:



Schmierer wasn't really asking for peoples' opinion about his study and life choices.

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To be honest, I'm not sure what our friend was asking for. all I know is our daughter is currently in the third year of her uni studies for a teachers degree at the ACU Brisbane, works two jobs to get by, and lives at home. She does get support from centrelink, and went thru the third degree to get it, and fair enough. Leave the country, take your chances. Bob

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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

Australia is a very isolated country and i have inspired people to come to Australia.
People are interested in Australia and Australians, as they no very little about the country all they think is, it is dry and we have natural disasters(due to the last few years). Part of the reason i want to work in international schools or schools overseas is not only for the experience but to teach people about Australia.
I must admit i do like how many people have completely missed or forgotten some of the things i have said

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Sorry mate , you just lost me, Bob

has anyone else dealt with centrelink? if so how long did it take for your claim to be processed?

it was quite a simple question, but others thought they would rather criticize then answer the question.
And for those who are interested even though i will be working 4-5 shifts and still doing uni full time i will still get centrelink payments if they approve it, i just wont get full payments

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Originally Posted by bob10

Sorry mate , you just lost me, Bob

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it was in reference to what someone else said

The system could be better, as you've pointed out, but you're going to have to man up and get on with things. I wish someone who survived the Great Depression and WWII would comment on this. You're onto something good and this is only a short interlude until you can enjoy the results.

My wife and I were engaged and apart for fourteen months while I was living in Canada and getting ready to return here. We started out with nothing and still have plenty of it left. You two will be educated and ready to go.

You may want to go remote eventually - teachers who come up here get, if memory serves, about $60,000-$80,000 a year during a four-year contract, with free rent, and six months of leave afterwards. The twits whinge about it the whole time and the good ones enjoy the change of lifestyle.

i am not in it for the money as long as it pays the bills etc. I dont think the money is too bad i know 2 teachers who are together(no kids though) and they earn over $150k. Both my partner and i will be educated and working, we are use to travelling and i dont really care where we end up as long as we are together, healthy and happy.
I am not much of a city person but i know that with my partners career that we will probably end up in a city or large town. I know early on in our careers we will travel/work/live overseas most likely somewhere in the UK.