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1cwhypl | Terrible headline given some of the eyebrow raising results in this poll:
* **Voters approved of all the budget’s major measures:** the freeze on the cost of prescription medicine (76% in favour); the $300 rebate (66%); increasing commonwealth rent assistance (58%); capping the number of new international students (56%); and investing in renewables, hydrogen and critical minerals through the Future Made in Australia plan (53%).
* Ahead of the budget [Labor released its future gas strategy]( **some 44% supported the approval of new gas projects in Australia.** Just 17% opposed them, while 39% said they neither supported nor opposed them.
* Respondents had a fuzzy view of the trajectory of the economy. Many correctly identified that interest rates had gone up in the past 12 months (65%) and almost half (47%) said the same of unemployment. **But two-thirds said inflation was on the rise (67%), despite** [**the fact it is slowing**](
* **Almost half (48%) of respondents wanted more government intervention,** compared with those who said the level of intervention was about right (36%) or should be less (16%).
* **A majority of respondents supported taxing the very rich** (63% in favour), capping negatively geared properties (59%) and inheritance tax on the very rich (56%).
Sometimes opinion polling is a funny thing... | 1 |
1d5vino | >Howard was seeking to allay concerns from a wary Coalition party room and assured Dutton and other MPs at the time that Australia’s sovereignty was not under threat.
This is the key quote. Australia should never engage in any agreement that conflicts with our ability to exercise full sovereignty; no nation should.
I didn't know we had a ministerial trigger provision, and as much as I generally detest delegated powers to ministers, when it relates to enabling international provisions, I am more comfortable. | 0 |
1d3rblp | I am eating well (figuratively and literally) seeing all these ideas for meals, this is fantastic | 0 |
1cvmtif | Scott Morrison does not appear to be a person that can accept that he may have personal failings. Sadly, or not, we all do have faults. Until he comes to terms with this reality he will continue to view himself through rose coloured glasses. This in no way obliges the rest of us to do the same for him. | 1 |
1d3jqrl | I think without a pass it’s like $9-$10 for each section and then there’s a $10 fee for processing and sending you a letter saying how much you owe | 0 |
1d61bgb | IMO the referendum has given a licence to the racists to be more overt.
I see a lot more of it now than what I did. Perhaps I'm in different social media places or because it was a hot topic for a while, but it's been a while and I believe there is more of it around. | 0 |
1d6e0vf | Like why did all the Nissan Micras start hating the world after 2018? Happy Micra Vs Micra wants to hurt you | 1 |
1d03qfh | Has it always been vibrating, or did it start at some point after using it a few times? Sometimes, if the blade hits a rock, it can ding and fall out of balance, particularly with bar type blades, and that will cause heavy vibration. Check the blade. it could be a simple fix. | 0 |
1d64r0w | What’s the dress code? If it’s not black tie you could get away with chinos, a nice button down and a sports jacket, which you’re more likely to rewear. | 0 |
1d34ukx | I've known a lot of former chefs who work as sales reps for food/ bev suppliers. Seems to be an alright gig.
Also, this isn't what you asked, but I've also heard good things about cheffing in aged care facilities. It's still cheffing obvs but it's regular non-insane hours, you can often secure a breakfast/lunch thing so you're not always working nights and weekends. Regular residents getting fed regular food so you don't have insane customers yelling at you about their madeup steak rules and no unexpected service rushes. | 1 |
1d6aucv | Because the rental scooters are some company monetizing our shared public space. | 1 |
1d2y8wr | This is where I really do get angry with the ALP. This is clearly bad policy designed to appease the CFMEU. Meanwhile they're perfectly happy to allow the SDA to absolutely shaft retail workers with yet another round of dodgy EBAs in exchange for donations from the Supermarket Duopoly. | 1 |
1d4ffjg | This is tacky af. Goes with the Australian standard of selling anything and everything. | 1 |
1d60dm6 | The geographical history of Port Philip Bay is very interesting. It didn’t exist until 10,000 years ago when the ending of the last ice age flooded what was once a giant river plain with lakes and wetlands. Even as recently as 3000 years ago the bay had completely dried out. Thank you, Wikipedia. | 1 |
1d5z5pc | Oh, *please*. China's glassjaw is notorious, and that makes them the epitome of a playground bully. They hate losing face, and Marles made them lose face. I don't know how many times people need to explain this to the PRC but the world doesn't give a shit about Chinese face, or the concept. | 1 |
1d4xibc | Yes, "resignation" should not be required - just mark the person as "do not roster".
Even if you did have to rehire to cover them, for casuals it doesn't matter, because there is no requirement to take them back after their holiday - that would be a simple decision when they came back of "do I need staff now, or not?"
Only reason I can think of is that it would be paperwork to explain why the person was marked "no longer employed" in the payroll and/or rostering computer system. Keeps it neat and tidy? | 1 |
1cyhg9j | I am surprised our Oligarchs don't have enough money to pay a PR firm to come up with a more believable story .
The idea that workers need our Corporate Overlords to protect us from greedy Unions is a bit out of date. | 1 |
1d1cwy1 | Yes, young people drive like idiots especially on country roads regardless of what they’re driving | 0 |
1d263en | Aussie broadband are great. Most providers offer you a modem to purchase too. | 0 |
1d421d6 | If pain is unbearable go to public emergency and get triaged, otherwise try and find a bulk billing GP tomorrow. Keeping in mind if needing scans the GP route will take much longer to get an answer
Emergency will likely do blood tests, possible ultrasound if worried about inflamed gallbladder. Maybe a CT scan overnight if symptoms worsen to look for other causes.
I won't comment on differential diagnosis but the emergency doctors can sort that and refer to specialists through the public service without a fee (which may require wait times) or admit you for more urgent consults | 0 |
1d5yvdq | Fresh chilli Laverton/Wyndham Vale | 0 |
1cq2am0 | Love the idea but the execution will certainly be a difficult one | 0 |
1d3rblp | 2 minute noodles come in 5 packs at Coles.
- Curtis Stone | 1 |
1d5ngze | Have any governments not realised that selling off public assets is not good for the public-the very people they’re supposed to be representing and serving? | 1 |
1d31ykp | This year our rent went up from 480 to 600 PW ours increased last year from 450-480 but the owner decided that cause the rental property is keeping his books in red for a long time and considering the same 4 bedroom house in our locality is ~600 we didn’t have much choice, his initial proposed rate was 630. | 0 |
1d4mhl1 | So they are levelling the playing field - great !, as I think that's why 5x more women were getting injured, was all the lumps and bumps they were tripping on. | 1 |
1d36iyr | No | 0 |
1d263en | Check whistle out to compare | 0 |
1d4s8jw | is there like ZERO actual answers here?
It's called a rolling cloud. It is cause by fast windspeeds at higher altitude impacting the slower moving cloud layer. Think of it like the sand at the bottom of a stream with fast running water. the same pattern appears in the sand. Also... it's brushwood screen fencing apparently lol
pretty common here... we get some ffreaky high windspeeds at higher altitudes. Much higher than typcial elsewhere. Making Melbourne my base in flightsim with real weather has bee nan eye opener | 1 |
1csfnw5 | If the LNP forms government next election they will immediately forget Nuclear exists. Just like they have every single time they are in government. They will continue to do whatever their mining donors tell them.
This is just a distraction. Nuclear might have been a good option 30 years ago but not today. We in Australia have a very unique opportunity to harness the sun, wind and the ocean. Using them for electricity in many ways. We are very lucky to be where we are. Yet governments have squandered it for decades.
It’s about time we actually make the transition to renewables instead of just talking about it. | 1 |
1d5ycgm | No body likes paying surcharge. The price has gone up on every cost associated with running a Cafe. Rent, wages, the oil guy, food. Coffee beans, dairy, the pest control company, rates, insurance, maintenance, consumables, cleaners, accountants. Delivery fees, gas, electricity, water.
It's takes a lot of cups of coffee to pay those bills. The staff are barely making a living wage. The whole industry is struggling. Cafes run on extremely low profit margins and most people have zero clue of the costs associated with running a hospo business. I guarantee you that they don't want to have to charge more but have to to keep the doors open. | 0 |
1d3dj8y | Sounds like a you problem.
Nothing is stopping you from going to the pub, seeing a gig, playing some pool, catching a movie. If you wanna doom scroll instead, well... | 1 |
1d3x6bo | Also, what the driver talked about regarding fare structure is incorrect. If he wishes to charge per minute fares and km rate at the same time while the taxi is in motion, the maximum they can charge is stated in fare structure 2, $1.725 per km and $0.438 cents per minute
Scroll down to fare structure 2
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1d3j26m | This while argument never makes sense. Nuclear is more of a threat to coal than renewables ever will be.
Not only does renewables require significantly more coal to manufacture and replace the assets. As with see with Eraring and SH2.0, we are as long off with renewables to replace coal (and still if) as nuclear is. | 0 |
1czd8d4 | Yes please | 0 |
1d66qny | This is what I thought.
Mostly I want to know that I actually got what I paid for.
I don't mind paying a premium, so long as I bought was genuine. | 0 |
1cvgxg1 | Albo's When I was young stories are not resonating with young people and just show how out of touch he and his party is. His only hope is the 2PP system where he thinks the Dutton is worse line will save him. | 1 |
1d2y11s | Always - as other have mentioned if it's significantly more expensive or if quality is signficantly worse. I'm happy to pay a premium for Australian made/produced.
I also always look for Australian seasonal produce - my kids know they will only get Aussie grapes/lemons/oranges.
Clothes/homewares are harder to find Australian made but will try to support Australian companies if I can. | 0 |
1d23xgh | Why do the Liberals always get a free pass from media and Labor it’s always everything is their fault.
Also, Australians have short term memory and easily forget all the corruption and BS they did.
No wonder the Coalition wins so much.
A dumb voter base votes for Scomo. Turnbull. Dutton. | 1 |
1d3dj8y | God you sound like a pain | 1 |
1d68iig | Wow, windows!
I don't think I'll be able to afford this place. | 1 |
1d25d2i | It’s always peaks around the time when I am getting late to work . | 0 |
1d2awds | The metro tunnel will also be a PPP... Something to look forward to. | 0 |
1d01sf0 | Yes if you illegally park a car the council or police or home owners or someone might be bothered, regardless of it having a for sale sign or not. There's nothing illegal to my knowledge about the for sale sign unless it's defecting the car like blocking the windscreen or something.
You do see them around though. Sometimes parked. Sometimes driving around. Saw one the other day. They're almost always older cars selling for pretty low prices.
If the numbers have reduced in recent years it's probably because they're being listed on Facebook marketplace instead which doesn't cost you anything and is likely more effective. I sold my car via FBM. I paid for some advertising, I think it cost me $6. Sold it in 1 day. It's quite a painless process, so long as you understand the relevant paperwork and road worthy clearance you're going to have to do to actually transfer the ownership which varies between states, and also you're wary of scammers. About 20% of the people who contacted me about my car were obvious scams. | 0 |
1d24wtj | Less “crashes” more “rammed” | 1 |
1cvnyoi | This section is interesting,
Budget 1 - October 2022:
* Total Better Off = 12
* Total Worse Off = 47
* Neither = 41
Budget 2 - May 2023:
* Total Better Off = 20
* Total Worse Off = 36
* Neither = 44
Budget 3 - May 2024:
* Total Better Off = 27
* Total Worse Off = 29
* Neither = 44
The trend does emulate the lead up to the 2019 Federal Election, where Stage 1 Tax Cuts had taken effect and an Election Budget resulted in a positive response. Similarly, the re-worked S3TC will be in effect from July and there will be an Election Budget next year.
The public likely views Chalmers as a steady hand on the wheel, so if Inflation does start to fall towards the end of the year, then the Federal Government will be in a firm position. | 0 |
1d4v2mp | The average means nothing. It depends on your industry and where you live. 120k is chump change in any major city, but perfectly serviceable in a cheaper area (i.e faraway from city centre)
You can save 10k in as little as a couple of month if you are willing to live frugal and on a good income. | 0 |
1d3r63l | This thread now had a theme song! | 0 |
1cq5co4 | well remember how the AFP raided Bill Shorten's office and its like... watevs bro
but its kind of Labor's own fault they werent cleaning office when they got in.... | 1 |
1d3t3d0 | Coming from Cali you must like the warm weather, and have decided on Melbourne. Great choice but bloody freezing in winter. If schools were your priority then I would look in Canterbury, Balwyn, Bulleen, Kew, hawthorn, McKinnon to start off. These areas have great private and public schools and are very nice areas to live in. Melbourne is very diverse so you should love it here. Good luck! | 0 |
1d60zwb | He's current job is chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia. That'd be a $500-750k pa package min with bonuses and RSUs
Highly doubt he's joining the Dutton bandwagon. | 1 |
1cwtko0 | There really needs to be a set date and not when the Prime Minister feels he has a good chance of winning. | 0 |
1cxwbp1 | >meaningfully engaged in this debate and we can expect a much argued and defensible policy that has had plenty of darts thrown towards it internally
The LNP want to save housing, but also they want to push Super for Homes policy aka subsidising demand via people's super (where young folks need it the most and also have the least), so I'm gonna doubt just where they sit on the "genuinelt care" scale.
>Immigration keeps us from entering a technical recession while reducing our security of shelter by decades. I’ve not lived under a government that has taken us so far back.
Yes, housing was famously cheap before 2022, net immigration was famously not averaging 250k under the LNP pre-covid, and the LNP had absolutely no hand in the current inflation that had been the core economic issue since late 2021 /s.
I do agree Labor has left to much heavy lifting to the RBA RE addressing inflation, and that housing is bad (but not because of immigration, but because we favour it as an investment absurdly), but the alternative had a huge role in getting us here too, lol. | 0 |
1d29da3 | And what is his plan? to go around telling men not to beat there partners? then what? this just screams optics rather than having a real plan or idea on the issue | 0 |
1d37g9y | Sorry to hear about your child. You should talk to the surgeon, not a bunch of random strangers on Reddit. It will depend on the structure that the surgeon has set up including hospital access and their priority for such things. Children usually get a high priority but it will come down the the medical team and hospital administration. It would be better if you can access a children's hospital in Australia. | 0 |
1d5bkeu | Lots of people whinge about Australia being a nanny state, and in some instances it's true. However, in some instances it's a good thing, and this is one of those instances. Helmets are like seatbelts, making them compulsory entrenches the practice in the population psyche so that it becomes the done thing over time, which increases public safety. | 0 |
1d011un | Why do all these authors in Pacific Island countries at risk from rising sea levels point the finger at Australia for producing 1% of carbon emissions in deference to China who produces 27% of carbon emissions. What's in it for them? | 1 |
1d648cr | This is...wildly not true. If you've been anywhere near the strip in question you'd see they're all being stored there without anyone living in them, which is unshockingly exactly what the news article says.
If you were correct about the definition of abandoned this would be a non-issue?
People's ability to wildly speculate based on their own assumptions and opinions in the face of stated facts never ceases to amaze me. | 1 |
1d31ykp | "I was reading in the news about a landlord group pushing to uniformly raise all rent across Melbourne."
Is this not illegal price fixing? | 1 |
1d2zss0 | You too can become a helicopter pilot if you have a spare $80,000 for the training. | 1 |
1ctzm63 | He's essentially saying not sure. It's a stupid position, for anyone that's read the genocide convention, cause how is any state meant to work to prevent and punish a crime, if they can't assess if its happening, when its happening? Its a really gutless position. We probably shouldn't be signed up to genocide convention, if we don't follow its obligations when needed.
A [big arse study]( on the matter just dropped today, that he could consult, if our parliamentarians wanted to do more than feign ignorance. Yet it seems Orwellian nonsense and ignorance is Labor's best friend at the moment.
I find the 'river to the sea=s no two state solution' the most bs part of his comments though. Such a weird direction for gov to frame things. People not wanting to live in apartheid like conditions says nothing about whether there's one or two states. Calling for freedom is vague enough that people can mean allsorts by it, yet this gov chooses the 'freedom =s antisemitism \[destruction of Israel\]', in rhetoric taken straight from Tel Aviv.
And based on this Orwellian revisionism by Labor, shouldn't they be condemning Payman, not saying she showed guts? They can't even follow their own bs properly. | 1 |
1d4qwie | Both suck. | 0 |
1d404vh | Push recycle, pull rubbish. Partly cuz 2 bins at once makes me feel like I'm absolutely nailing bin night, but also cuz rubbish bin is too short and it feels awkward to push, but recycle bin is taller. | 0 |
1d54cey | Given the dismissal of existing Human Rights Charters during Covid, I don't see how having the same thing replicated at a federal level, that can be over-ridden at the whim of those it is supposed to constrain, is going to be of much use. | 1 |
1d3stts | no backbone.
Someone reversed into my car. It didn't do much damage like 30 dollars worth?
If they had they had just left a note with number and that it was them i would have just thanked them for fessing up and moved on. | 0 |
1cxmcnj | Beyond the clickbait headline, the actually story is that 'building standards have been improved', and that building better homes costs more money.
We could build smaller homes, that would help. | 1 |
1d2clz5 | I don’t accept the excuse it was “the independent AAT”. The AAT is part of the executive government (ie the minister) not the judiciary, and therefore he is ultimately responsible for it. | 0 |
1d3khm6 | so basically he won't deport people back who have been accused of raping children, even a disabled 14 year old girl, also a man that had sex with he's step daughter when he's wife was in hospital giving birth to their child, are these the type of people we need here? | 1 |
1d29da3 | Never been into the whole Jordan peterson Andrew Tate MRA movement but how amazingly clueless do you have to be to not realise something like this is only going to make those peanuts more popular? Literally the opposite of what they're intending. Have they thought about maybe a, violent criminals behaviour change committee? Instead of vaguely gesturing at half the population and suggesting they need to do better? | 0 |
1d3t46i | I was lactose intolerant from very early young age right up to 18-19... then one day I left Australia for my first holiday in France... and I came back lactose tolerant. Don't know how it happened , but the fresh dairy food in the French markets were next level couldn't resist no matter the thought of possible lactose repucutions... and there were none. I could consume cheese for the first time.
Prior to that... I always consumed Goats milk.
Decades have passed. All good. | 0 |
1d5ngze | The debt-burdened Allan government is spruiking its wholly public births, deaths and marriages agency to private investors in a bid to bolster its beleaguered finances.
Treasurer Tim Pallas has begun discussions with private equity firms to gauge their interest in running some of the registry’s services.
Pallas met with one firm last week, according to a private industry source familiar with the negotiations, and pitched the idea as a “limited-term contract” in the style of the partial privatisation of VicRoads’ licensing and registration arms – a deal due to expire in the 2060s.
The industry source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardise commercial interests, said the treasurer was “hoping to close any deal by the end of the year”.
A fresh offer from a private consortium could raise billions of dollars in the short term for Victoria’s bottom line while providing superannuation companies or others with tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed annual income from birth, death and marriage certificates.
A cabinet minister, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed there was a desire for several years at the highest levels of government to rebuild Births, Deaths and Marriages through the private market.
“It can probably be done better,” the minister said.
The senior MP went on to say the registry would ideally be brought back into the government fold entirely once it had proven its value to the taxpayer.
Births, Deaths and Marriages has dealt with high-profile issues in recent years, particularly during the pandemic, when its offices were closed, it took months for officials to issue certificates and urgent emails went unanswered.
Asked if the agency was to be privatised, a government spokesperson instead described the preferred model as a joint venture partnership.
“Victoria’s Births, Deaths and Marriages service will not be privatised, but we are looking at how we can continue to improve the quality of government services.”
The government to this day insists the partial privatisation of some VicRoads services was not privatisation, but a joint venture partnership.
Just seven months ago, the government was predicting it would be in deficit by about $1 billion by June 2025. That expected financial hole more than doubled to $2.2 billion in the May 7 state budget.
The same budget papers forecast Victoria’s debt to rise to $187.8 billion by June 2028. In simple terms, the May budget leaves Victorian taxpayers with a $25 million daily interest bill.
Labor’s primary vote has also plummeted below 30 per cent since Jacinta Allan became premier, according to an exclusive survey published by this masthead last month. The survey found two-thirds of voters wanted the government to do more to reduce debt.
But additional partial privatisation in the name of budget repair would not come without risks. The Coalition will use any proposed agreement with industry to slam the government’s management of debt and government agencies. Meanwhile, the Greens would argue such a move undermines the public service.
Labor will also be in power in Victoria for a decade come December, the timeframe Pallas has told industry he wants the agency deal signed.
Researcher Charlie Joyce, from the independent but progressive think tank the Australia Institute, said he suspected further privatisation was politically dangerous in Victoria.
“Daniel Andrews campaigned in 2022 against privatisation,” Joyce said. “He promised to bring back the State Electricity Commission. A further re-embrace of privatisation would lead to a loss in trust in the Allan government which, I think, frankly, is already fraying.”
Joyce said while Victoria’s debt levels were an important consideration, his research on privatisation showed even partial privatisation was often “short-term gain for long-term pain”.
“For something like Births, Deaths and Marriages, this is a government service that handles very sensitive information. A private owner that cuts costs on security – cybersecurity in particular – could quite quickly run into trouble.
“It would [also] be a colossal mistake to take a step that may reduce the quality of public services and increase the cost.”
Birth, death, marriage or change of name certificates start from $54.40 in Victoria, but registrations and commemorative certificates are more expensive. There were 72,932 registered births in Victoria last year, 29,826 marriages and 45,345 deaths.
The total administered income from identity and worker screening transactions in Victoria for the six months to June 30 last year was $33.83 million, according to the Department of Government Services’ most recent publicly available annual report.
The same report states that Births, Deaths and Marriages failed to meet its timeliness target in the 2022-23 financial year.
It took the agency, on average, 10.9 days to process compliant applications for birth, death and marriage certificates in the 12 months to June last year. Its target for the period was less than 10 days.
The price of general-issue licence plates, black motorbike plates and slimline black custom licence plates all increased by $15 on January.
Driver licensing and registration aren’t the only services partly privatised since Victorian Labor came to power in December 2014.
The Port of Melbourne was leased to a private consortium for 50 years under a $9.7 billion deal in 2016 and the Victorian Land Titles Office was partly privatised in 2018 for more than $2 billion.
Last year’s housing statement also revealed Melbourne’s public high-rise towers will be handed over to private developers in the coming years as part of a mixed model.
When VicRoads was partly privatised in 2022, Pallas refused to label the development privatisation.
“This is not privatisation in anybody’s language,” the treasurer said at the time.
“We’re always looking to see how we can drive better services, better performance, but we will never divest the ownership of assets.”
The partial privatisation of VicRoads was also pitched as injecting $7.9 billion into Victoria’s coffers.
Under the VicRoads deal, the state maintains ownership of the service, the Victorian Ombudsman preserves its oversight and there were extensive talks with the Australian Services Union to ensure workers kept their jobs.
However, a consortium comprising Aware Super, Australian Retirement Trust and Macquarie Asset Management was allowed to run the agency’s licensing and registration for the next 40 years. | 0 |
1d10055 | Hey OP are you a bot? | 1 |
1cyb6ga | Unless it's for torture purposes | 0 |
1d5geoh | Was riding the warburton trail last weekend and my partner mentioned that Launching place bakery has a reputation for good apple cakes.
On a whim we decided to visit. Can confirm very good apple cakes. | 0 |
1d3iwgi | Also- will you be doing shift work and relying on public transport at weird hours? Check what is available. Dont want to spend all your money on uber/taxis. And like anywhere, public transport can be dodgy late at night/overnight. | 0 |
1d38xk0 | Is there a competition you can enter that into? | 0 |
1crkdoo | so you are for child porn, snuff videos and the like? | 1 |
1crheft | And yet, the perpetrators of war crimes walk free. A national day of shame. | 1 |
1d40yp3 | 41. 6 jobs across 2 careers. (Not including the casual dishie job out of high school. Graphic designer and then shifted into IT. | 0 |
1czdtt4 | Oh no
Anyway
(Also, I feel I should put some kind of text here to explain the appropriateness of the OhNoAnyway meme to the current context, and in particular to the political situation, not because I think it's honestly needing to be explained to most readers, but because it might serve to increase the perceived quality of the post. Perhaps something about how the speaker in the original meme is themselves a landlord, albeit apparently mostly of commercial property...?) | 1 |
1d2uevz | They’re all the way down in Berwick too. There was a deer farm up near Wellington road that had a mass breakout years back and that’s what’s driven the population boom | 0 |
1d41rdv | ive saved a lot of money by not shopping at colesworth and instead eating the rich. | 1 |
1d3eybn | I inherited it. through my mother. you dont need to be born in australia to qualify for its citizenship, just need a parent who was.
Im baffled you don't know something as basic as australian citizenship | 1 |
1d4o1ya | Where to study VCE:
Box Hill institute (City Campus) CAE offers VCE that might be appropriate.
There’s many TAFEs that offer VCE, or VCE with vocational major.
Also, there’s the free Adult Migrant English Program.
Edit- what was the reason why Chisholm said she couldn’t do VCE there? Have you approached other TAFEs? | 0 |
1d5kce4 | The biggest issue with Perth is not being able to go into a supermarket at 5pm on a Friday night to get supplies. Made me so glad to have moved from that hell hole 20+ years ago. | 1 |
1cpqqgf | It really shits me, I'm happy living in a apartment, yet because of how Australian are, a stone's throw from the Sydney CBD I see mainly single family town houses, then a 20+ minute drive things start being built up into huge ass apartment buildings. | 1 |
1d31dkk | Not a bad idea in itself but it works on choice; I can see that you’re ripping me off so I’ll go somewhere else instead.
The problem is that despite Aldi or IGA’s often having better deals, I can’t do all my shopping at those places so I tend to end up at the big 2. I already know they’re ripping me off but I don’t have time to drive to 3 different places to get all the stuff I need. I don’t usually have time to get just to my closest Aldi. And *the big 2 know* this too. They know I’m gonna grumble then pay their shitty prices.
More evidence isn’t going to help. | 1 |
1d24t3a | Between work and other obligations I've got 4 photos of me in my wallet stuck to cards. Each meaning something different to different agencies. | 0 |
1d5yvdq | It really is the best! | 0 |
1d5yfds | Isn't it a yellow line? "Stand behind the yellow line" sounds more familiar to me... | 0 |
1d4k42f | Back in my day, cars didn't need babysitting with red arrows of delayed greens to let pedestrians start.
You just made a consious choice not to run people over. | 1 |
1d25xi7 | As a niche-interest protest party, the Greens care little about the impact their hardline positions would have on ordinary Australians. The undergraduate and destructive stance taken by G[reens leader Adam Bandt]( on the October 7 terrorist attacks by[ Hamas against Israel]( is proof enough of the harm the far-left party poses to [Australia’s community cohesion](
The inflammatory detour into foreign policy is calculated to embarrass Anthony Albanese but, as outrageous as the anti-Israel stand is, it is only part of a bigger threat that the Greens represent to our national identity and good government. When allowed to get close to the levers of power – as they did in de facto coalition with the Gillard Labor government, and with a balance-of-power position in the federal Senate today – the [Greens are exposed]( for the wreckers they are.
The Albanese government has yet to prove it has the substance to stand up to the Greens. Its record to date is one of being too eager to cut a deal or shy away from a fight. Good policy – most recently legislation to give certainty to the offshore gas industry and discourage unjustified lawfare attacks by protest groups – has been put on ice to appease the Greens. Changes to the nation’s environmental laws have been delayed because it is too difficult to find a sensible way to allow development and protect the natural world, something business supports.
Labor already has said it will delay introducing legislation for its $13.7bn package of production credits for hydrogen producers and critical minerals processing announced in the federal budget to allow time to negotiate with the Greens. Whatever one may think about the Albanese government’s corporate subsidy agenda, the Greens will only make it worse.
The Greens have pledged to use their balance-of-power position to frustrate the government’s wider agenda. This includes housing, where by focusing on renters the Greens have outflanked the federal government electorally in its inner-city seats. Voters must heed the lessons of the minor parties. For all the high ideals expressed before the last election, the teals have failed to make an impression. The Greens, once again, have shown by their actions they will only make our politics and economy poorer for their interventions. | 1 |
1cyee7t | And the fossil fuel grift continues.
Here's a bold prediction, we'll get to the end of this deal, and hey presto Origin will invent another excuse requiring yet more taxpayer dollars. | 1 |
1d4vktg | I couldn't find any information either but commenting to give the post some traction. Good luck! | 0 |
1d4ru6q | smart move for Albo to stay out of it, trumps still the front runner and if you go back and look at polling, the mugshot release of trump led to a huge spike in his numbers and i remember seeing opinion polling showing about 64% of people thought the charges against him were politically motivated, im not sure if the positive effect on trumps numbers will have diminishing returns but either way the democrats really need to change up their strategy if they want to win in November | 0 |
1d4kn6k | I'm not sure where in NSW you are, but most areas have a Facebook page for people looking for work and business looking for staff. For example, I live in Port Stephens, mine is "Port Stephens Positions Vacant and Wanted."
Lots of jobs are advertised here in areas like domestic cleaning, hotel cleaning, hospitality, retail, etc.
Others put up a little post about themselves, saying that they're looking for work, and often, people comment on places that are hiring. It's important to sell yourself well. Put thought into what you write.
I know my son got a job doing night fill at Coles and then at Woolworths easily. He went and registered online and completed the application, then went to the stores and gave his resume with his applicant number on it.
Traffic control is a great option. You'll need to do the training, but once you do, you'll earn double doing that than in most other entry-level positions.
Make sure you have a good, well written resume and cover letter. When a business is getting 50 for one position, they read the ones that are well formatted and straight to the point. | 0 |
1d0wqfz | I don't think it would win voters over but some polls suggest that Nuclear energy has public support with a majority supporting it. | 0 |
1ct8xos | Weak move by Hughes.
Call a spade a spade and don’t back down. | 1 |
1d5xw1l | I swear by the Aldi 3 ply, as good as Quilting but without the price | 0 |
1csg89n | Not that I don't think the narrative that the Liberals are good economic managers is a complete joke of an opinion and should be laughed at but this article is kind of shit and the way it goes about its analysis is also a joke. There is always an element of luck to governance but the Liberal party are reliant on it, case and point Howard and Menzies. The former presided over economic architecture created for him but missed the boat on capitalising on it for the benefit of the nation, and the latter was an astute politician that took advantage of the Labor - DLP split with great skill. | 1 |
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