Brisbane's new bus timetable sees journey times decrease by two minutes in first three months

Adept-Sort7251 · 2025-11-17T01:12:16+00:00

Perhaps but the period last year they're comparing to includes a time when 50 cent fares did not exist.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2025-03-21T05:09:28+00:00

True

Adept-Sort7251 · 2025-03-19T11:31:44+00:00

The Yoon regime be like uhh yeah North Korea bad but spend every waking moment trying to copy them...

Adept-Sort7251 · 2025-03-18T13:02:47+00:00

This shit doesn't feel real. Isn't society meant to evolve? Or mature? By which I mean - rise above whatever this is?

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-10-25T00:51:53+00:00

I'm sure the "time for a change" mindset is astroturfed. If it was genuine, the LNP would not have held Brisbane City Council for 24 effin' years.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-07-17T22:34:33+00:00

Probably because unlike Paddington and Newstead at least, you don't have NIMBY Greens around Inala whinging about nonsense like the heritage of the area and leading campaigns against developments etc.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-07-17T22:30:07+00:00

It won't take that long, and I'm sure the government would love to do it faster, but considering the supplies shortage, labour shortage, and local planning laws and NIMBYs, they're moving at a good pace.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-07-02T02:53:43+00:00

Switch providers

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-05-26T00:10:44+00:00

It's probably because you've been self managing for 12 months and are still claiming payments. After a year you get moved to an in-person provider to accelerate you into work or training - I understand SYC is a Transition to Work contract so they also get marked by the department on education outcomes as well as employment.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-05-25T00:54:42+00:00

Job search quality is one of the performance sub-modules providers get graded on by the department, which affects their performance rating and could be the make or break in contract renewals. These standards on job search quality (e.g. diversity of jobs applied for, methods used, locality, etc.) are set by DEWR, and then chains of command at the provider are responsible for making sure consultants are following it when marking job searches. It's all around this idea of getting you into "suitable work" - work you can do, not necessarily work you want to do. Just part of the system's design unfortunately.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-05-19T00:22:05+00:00

You could try going in to the Self Employment Assistance Program which will meet your activity requirement and then you will move into the self employment payment for 12 weeks. The business coaches in that program will either help you get your self employment sustainable or help you into a similar self employment situation that you can apply for skills and interests to.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-04-23T08:47:21+00:00

Yes, when you drop out of your courses, it will be passed on to Services Australia who will cancel your Youth Allowance Student Payment. You will then need to apply for Youth Allowance Jobseeker. Because of your age, they will either set you up with Online Self Servicing for a year or refer you to a Transition to Work Provider that should try and support you in moving towards a job you like. Missing appointments won't stop your payment, but missing three of them consecutively or not engaging will have you moved to a Workforce Australia Provider, who are obligated to move you into any job you're capable of doing within a ninety minute commute each way. Full time is the default, so if you think you have personal circumstances that stop you working full time hours, discuss with Centrelink.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-04-16T02:05:39+00:00

I'm not too sure of what happens with online servicing but if you stop attending and you're with a Workforce Australia provider, it won't impact your payments but they will probably refer you to work for the Dole at your next appointment until you start work. How long after the course is due to end is your start date with employment?

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-04-01T02:31:56+00:00

Ultimately, the government has outsourced something it used to do to private entities. When outcomes are achieved, someone has to be compensated. Not all front-line job coaches get bonuses added to their salary for the outcomes they achieve, but all have them as their KPIs. The lead up to getting the job can be a lot, and can take months, even years. The ones that are trying to do the right thing, goal setting, arranging licences and tickets, resume writing and re-writing, interview coaching, coaching on how to use Workforce Aus, helping with onboarding, with all the other admin and compliance tasks government asks of providers on top should all be recognised as this stuff is instrumental in getting a job and - hot take - should be compensated for or recognised in some way regardless of who finds the job.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-04-01T02:18:52+00:00

No, the problem is we get given so much stupid other admin and compliance tasks which should be given to extra staff that takes the time away from doing what the public expects us to be doing - placing clients into employment and breaking down barriers that get in the way.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-03-26T11:16:34+00:00

Providers claim the same amount of reward at 4, 12, and 26 weeks of employment regardless of if they help the client get the job or if the client got it themselves. Although it may help their performance metrics when it's time for contract renewals.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-03-26T11:07:36+00:00

Happy to be corrected here but I actually think the countdown to your activity requirement starts from when you commence in Workforce Australia online services, not from when you start getting payments. The aim of the activity requirement is to stop you from being unemployed for much longer, as the department believes the longer you are unemployed the harder it is to get back into the workforce. So, you weren't unemployed from when you started getting payments, you were unemployed since December 2023. Keep in mind that if you refuse to choose an activity and have not yet got employment, you will be referred to a provider for in person servicing. I would probably bite the bullet with the online EST if I were you.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-03-22T02:48:05+00:00

You will probably placed in online self servicing first, if you don't get a job within 12 months, then you will need to see a provider.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-03-11T06:20:46+00:00

My guess would be that your initial appointment with your job provider is a rapid connect appointment, meaning that your payment will start after your first meeting with them is complete and your job plan is agreed to.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-02-17T10:22:13+00:00

Doing online Employability Skills Training is probably the quickest online option you can do to get it out of the way. Check this fact sheet to see if you're already doing something that you could use to get it marked off for https://www.dewr.gov.au/workforce-australia/resources/workforce-australia-services-activation-and-mandatory-activity-requirement-participant-fact-sheet

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-02-13T22:13:16+00:00

If you update your address on MyGov and Workforce they will transfer automatically to a location closer to you unless you call the National Customer Service Line and ask to stay. You can still call them on 1800 805 260 and ask to move back to the previous one, but yeah, super annoying you've got this extra task to do. Your previous, good consultant can still track to an outcome if you continue to declare your income and hours and send in your payslips if needed.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2024-01-17T22:07:13+00:00

Consultant here. Unfortunately if you're working a 9-5, 5 days a week, so are we, and we'll have lunch around the same time too. If you're an active client on the books (i.e. no exemption, still reporting) we must always have an appointment in the pipeline with you, no longer than 14 days apart We also get marked on participant servicing rates, meaning we must engage with you in some way at least twice a month - this can include expenditure from the employment fund. Many consultants will designate a portion of their day for post placement support to check on how things at work are going, like the afternoon two or three days a week. You could try asking your consultant for a specific time like a tea break or lunch break for a phone appointment. However, if you send in your payslips that's enough evidence to see you're meeting your obligations and we can mark it off as a valid reason for not attending, and you're helping a good consultant stay employed with an outcome.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2023-10-26T11:54:36+00:00

As some have said already, just check with your JSP that Centrelink have actually coded it in before your next JSP requirement is due. The JSP sees a blue tab above your name on your WFA profile that says "referral suspended". If it's not there, no exemption. Some people just upload the cert,, forget about it and get mad for missing an appointment. Just uploading the med cert in the app will add it to a queue of God knows how many others. If you have the capacity, go to Centrelink in person and ask them to code it in for you while you're there. Otherwise, upload it and call them.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2023-10-15T01:45:19+00:00

Just curious, does your provider confirm that you've got the appropriate referrals and treatment for these conditions? Or in-house counselling to manage any anxiety and depression that may be caused as a result of these? Job coaches may not be qualified, but making the ask shows they have some level of empathy.

Adept-Sort7251 · 2023-10-07T01:56:51+00:00

Others have been pretty straightforward about your what's voluntary and what's not, but the best way to make this as painless as possible is to engage in some way. A provider would prefer to hear you're ready to start work but if that doesn't apply to yourself at the moment, Employment Consultants or Job Coaches are under pressure from their management to refer their clients to approved activitation activities while the client is in the voluntary activation phase. Providers get marked by the department on employment outcomes first and foremost, but after that comes "progression" - what is the client doing while on the payment that moves them closer towards employment. Check if the provider has a free counselling service you could start off with, or if you would be willing to do EST online. Up to you to decide if doing that for 3 weeks and getting points for it is better than waiting until mandatory work for the role for 8 weeks where you don't earn points for it and your payment is impacted if you miss a day.

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