I'm sure someone will post a photo soon . . .
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I'm sure someone will post a photo soon . . .
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Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton
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Originally Posted by Davo
However, some of you are showing your age . . . there is this wonderful country called Brazil, where they developed one of the most outstanding inventions of the 20th century . . .
Enlighten us please Davo, Google comes up with didlly squat. :angel:Quote:
Originally Posted by Davo
i did have a fair idea but i thought i would just double check. i did not want to just assume
maybe a photo of this one too eh?
When I was at uni the allowances were not enough to live on and cover the costs with my study. First yrear I lived on mostly rice. Boil a pot at night and have it plain for dinner. Left over with sugar for breaky. Splurge would mean I had a box of cereal that fortnight.
Second year was easy as we had a 2 bed house with 3 of us in it so could share the costs.
Centerlink has always been slow on the student processing.
Back to the original question, I've only really had to deal with Centrelink once or twice, and I've found them excruciating.
We were working and residing in Holland for a little while, and the Dutch were happy to pay family assistance (like in Australia) on the condition that we weren't receiving a similar payment from another country. Fair enough I thought. So tried to stop our Oz assistance payments - couldn't do it. The Dutch didn't care, and paid us theirs anyway.
If it helps, I don't always claim all of my deductions at tax time, so I'm sure I've repaid it back over time. :P
Sorry - we middle-aged men just don't have the access to that sort of thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton
Anyway, I meant to say before that Centrelink have always been hopeless, and before, when they were the Commonwealth Employment Service, or CES, they were hopeless too. I always thought that was a great government department name, as while it was indeed a commonwealth, (i.e. federal), department, they didn't help with employment and they didn't give any service. So you can always tell what a government department doesn't do by looking at the name of what it's supposed to do.
Also, I mentioned the remote teachers up here as an example of what you could do later on. You could perhaps get a decent student loan to allow you to get on with things, and you wouldn't have much trouble paying it back with the sorts of conditions you get up here. And you'd also get some priceless experience that you could then take with you overseas, because most Aussies go abroad knowing very little about their own country.
Just a thought for taking matters into your own hands instead of trying to get blood from a stone.