Thread: OMG Centrelink are slow

Gee Schiemer your post are hard to read.
So you are saying the Australian taxpayer should pick up the cost of students galavanting around the world, with no guarantee that there is a slight chance that there will be a return on the investment?

someone could stay here get both living away from home and student allowance in full, cover their living costs and uni costs and they could save money, and then just move overseas and never pay any of their HECS either. But the money i was talking about would have to be getting spent on student costs like books with postage and uni fees,plus exams, and if this student allowance was to get cut in half for those overseas the students money that they would be getting from the student allowance would not cover those things and the money that they would get would stay in Australia- do you understand what i am saying or not?
ps i changed my colour so it may make it easier to read

The colour's not the problem.

I very much doubt that Student Allowance and Living away From Home Allowance would enable the recipient to save money, it certainly didn't whem my daughter was studying, but I do stand to be corrected.
Quite true, I expect a few graduates do move overseas, never repaying the Government loan made in good faith. That does not make it right or illegal, it is immoral though.
The mere fact that you want to study for an Australian qualification overseas demonstrates that you will use the qualification elsewhere and may never return. That makes you a bad risk. Try getting a car loan in Australia to buy a car in Sweeden.
Why should Australian tax payers cover your postal costs because you decide to live half way round the world? That is like me expecting the government to top up my rent because I want to live in Rose Bay instead of Hexam!
I'm not sure that I fully undestand what you are trying to say. I have difficulty coming to terms with the fact that anyone could believe that the Australian tax payer should support a non-resident. Instead of asking Social Security for assistance plead your case to Foreign Affairs, I believe they are responsible for foreign aid.

Originally Posted by bob10

How do all you university goers feel about the fact that your politicians who have decided you must pay, went to uni for free?

That is an excellent point, I don't know how it fits in to the current discussion but what I do know is that without Gough both of my parent couldn't have gone to uni.

well i know people who do save money from the both.
In my 4th/final year of my degree i will be back in Australia so who knows maybe i will never work overseas.
the point i was making with the postage is that i would not be keeping any of the money to spend on partying etc. it is not like i would be just sending all the bills to centrelink.
Regardless of where i am, i am still a resident.
who knows i may have to dip into my super.

by the way i hope you guys don't take a government pension in your 60s or even early-mid 70s, because you could still be working my grandparents are and they are 79 and 76. just because you may be entitled to in your 60s for a pension does not mean you should take it

Originally Posted by cdbanks

That is an excellent point, I don't know how it fits in to the current discussion but what I do know is that without Gough both of my parent couldn't have gone to uni.

Exactly, before Gough a university education was mostly confined to the privileged children of the the prosperous classes. Parents had to pay full fees up front and support the student.

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

i do have a few set deadlines on when i am going to leave. so i am just trying to get as much money as possible within reason(because of my uni) because i know it might get hard over there to get money and a return flight is at least $1500, so flying back here to work is not a very good idea.
To sum up what i have said
I have applied for youth allowance-full time student, it has not been processed yet but if i get it approved i will only get 40% as far as i know due to me working as i will be working 4-5 days a week.
I know my chances are slim of getting youth allowance-full time student while overseas, but i will apply, because if i got it, it would help me out alot( but dont yoou tax payers worry i will be back in australia paying off my HECS and paying tax so other people like me can get assistance with their study-which i am happy for.
I think better off someone who is studying get centrelink money to assist them so they don't have to work or work as much and use their full potential on their studies, rather then someone who just stays at home playing games.( i would think we could all agree on that one).
there is a difference between being a bludger and taking things that are entitled to them(i know not quite the right way of saying it but its late)
i think they should change it in the future so students overseas can still get the same allowance as they would be spending most if not all of that money back in Australia on uni fees/courses and books/postage and a few other things, maybe if they thought it was too much they could cut it to a certain percentage, but i definitely think they should still get some of it, and yes it is a life choice to move overseas but seeing as they are still paying the same fees as those residing in Australia i don't think that should come into much if at all.
I definitely think a lot of you got way to opinionated and accusing me of things, pretty much saying i am a bludger, when i am a full time uni student who has a fairly full time job.
I do realize some people have it tougher and more full on then me with kids and working while studying, and my hat goes off to them. I know i couldn't do it(even though later i will have a classroom full off them later).
what ever i can do to help me with my study's to help me get the best result and become the best teacher i can be, i will do it. But i am still moving overseas

Seems you are in the grip of the furry magnet, young Schmerier