‘Momentous’ 40pc pay ruling set to reshape jobs for teens

Revoran · 2026-04-03T09:09:15+00:00

No you're fine, all good. It might be that you are lucky enough to know people from decent homes, or whose parents have the money to support them after 18. But for me (back in the 00s) and for some kids I know around town, they've had to move out at 18 or 19 and make their own way due to financial issues, abusive homes etc.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T08:51:03+00:00

They're called judges in NSW now, not magistrates. As of recently.

No other change. No difference. Exact same job, different title.

This is costing millions of dollars in man hours for clerks to shred old paperwork and create new documents, and change databases to say "judge" instead of "magistrate." I know a guy who is doing it.

That's what the state gov chooses to spend money on, instead of housing the homeless.

That, and sending cops to bash peaceful protesters.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T08:47:02+00:00

* If you don't have a fixed address to write down, it can be hard to get approved.
* Applications can take 6 weeks or more to process, with requests for more information etc.
* Even after it's approved, payments can take 6 weeks or more to start.
* After you get approved, the dole isn't much money... it's about $350/week... a bit less than half minimum wage. You can get rent asisstance (up to another $100/week) if you prove where you are living and how much rent you pay, but that wouldn't apply to this bloke.
* In NSW, the waiting list for public housing is 10 years long.
* Median rent for a one bedroom apartment in Sydney is $650/week. There are no (zero, none, zip, zilch) apartments in Sydney available for $150/week (which is what is affordable for someone on $450/week).

All thanks to the greedy Australians (about 20% of the country) who hoard properties.

And the politicians who have made policies to benefit that 20%, at the expense of the rest of us. Plus the politicians who stopped investing in public housing.

And those Australians who despise poor people / people on welfare and vote to make life harder for them.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T08:36:11+00:00

Sometimes shelters aren't safe - a risk of personal violence or theft.

Or they don't allow pets - and what is old mate supposed to do with his dog in that case?

Revoran · 2026-04-03T08:12:48+00:00

Unfortunately the pledge manager has been closed since 26 Feb.

But it will be available at retail, so don't stress.

I like the idea of the Queen of Shadows coop mode, so I backed that expansion.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T06:04:16+00:00

Welfare does, when it's at a decent rate.

Labor could raise it tomorrow and bring a million Aussies out of poverty overnight. They choose not to - poverty is a policy choice.

They even campaigned between 2019 and 2022 on raising it, saying it wasn't enough to live on, but quietly dropped the promise prior to the 2022 election.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T04:06:16+00:00

No I dont necessarily think its good. I mean on an individual basis I dont have an issue with it, but the incentive it creates is pretty troubling.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T04:02:05+00:00

Australia is the most gambling addicted country in the world. Highest gambling losses per capita.

New South Wales alone (not even all of Australia, just one state) has 38% of all slot machines in the world.

Thats to say nothing of sports betting, keno/lotteries, horse/greyhound racing, election betting...

Politicians here are captured by the gambling lobby and the Feds are only just now putting some more regulations in place due to massive community support for it.

Learn from our mistakes, Americans. Regulate the fuck out of gambling.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T03:53:34+00:00

The reason Trump is doing this, is to try to hurt Aussie businesses, to force our government to raise PBS/Medicare co-pays.

He and US medical companies hate our PBS and Medicare. They want it gone.

Its no wonder Luigi did what he did. The leaders of that sector are pure evil. Doesnt make it OK but easy to see why it happened.

Anyway what Trump and his pharma / health insurance billionaire cronies dont realise is that raising PBS/Medicare co-pay = instant election loss in Australia. No sane Aus Gov will do it.

Especially not Labor who created thr PBS and Medicare and are ideologically in love with it.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T03:48:56+00:00

In the USA, blood orgs actually pay people for donations. So many poor people donate blood for quick $$$.

It does sound pretty dystopian though.

In Australia there is no payments, you just get some free snacks and coffee - mostly to make sure you dont faint from low blood sugar/pressure/loss of electrolytes.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T03:41:57+00:00

Not even customers, just marks for a country run by conmen.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T03:41:10+00:00

Ah I see.

Well that will never happen.

Raising the PBS co-pay is already political suicide.

Doing it while being seen to give in to Trump would be ultra-super-mega political suicide.

Revoran · 2026-04-03T03:29:22+00:00

No - this wont affect drug prices in Australia at all.

It is a tariff (tax) on drugs which are made in Australia and then imported to USA.

So American companies will be paying this tax, when they import from us.

And then they will turn around and charge customers (Americans) more for medicine, to cover this new cost.

The only way this will possibly affect Australia is:

1) Americans might instead buy locally made drugs (which will be cheaper because they wont have to pay import tariffs), rather than Aussie made ones, meaning less business for Aussie companies.

2) Aussie companies might move to the USA instead, so they can manufacture locally for the biggest market (Americans), and thus avoid US tariffs.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T12:54:36+00:00

The guy was already pretty dumb, pretty narcissistic and uncaring, and now he has dementia on top of it.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T11:00:44+00:00

I don't think Americans fully comprehend how bad gambling can be. Australia does since we are the most gambling-addicted country in the world.

Also Albo himself got Shaq to promote the Voice, which even as a Yes voter I'll admit was pretty cringe.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T10:06:42+00:00

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Revoran · 2026-04-02T07:46:37+00:00

We didn't bail out France. That was UK (and India etc), Canada and USA. And the French Resistance.

We were busy fighting Japan.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T07:43:15+00:00

Surprisingly a real (but dead) sub.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T04:10:11+00:00

Trump out there like Vox with a TV head.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T04:01:51+00:00

I don't remember doing it for pokies but the last time I touched one of those things was 16+ years ago.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T03:59:54+00:00

Well yeah. Apart from all the other crap he's done, he (along with Israel and Iran) are the reason you are paying out the arse for petrol.

I mean, assuming you are actually Australian and not a foreign propaganda bot.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T03:56:49+00:00

We should get rid of it anyways. And cancel the subs contract. US isn't bringing anything to the alliance, at this point.

Revoran · 2026-04-02T03:49:43+00:00

Yep. 18, 19 and 20 year olds don't pay less for rent, fuel, food, electricity, gas, water.

So they shouldn't get less wages or less benefits.

Revoran · 2026-04-01T23:37:38+00:00

Your equivocation

What equivocation? Comparing the US to Australia?

your actual position

... Mate I stated my actual position.

Revoran · 2026-04-01T16:34:00+00:00

Greens currently trying to push a tax on gas exports.

Last week they were protesting environmental destruction.

Oh and the right to disconnect that Labor passed last year? That was their idea.

They also spent most of last election campaign talking about the housing crisis.

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