They are implementing a new system which both is more annoying to everyone but might reduce the amount of paper used, I'm not quite sure of that yet. In the Ballarat office they have changed the system. Now those on Newstart get a participation book, which is a job diary as well as the fortnightly form and income record. The problem with this is now they make us look for 8 jobs a fortnight, but if we work over 40 hours then it's 4 jobs even if we only get $1 from centrelink.. If we receive nothing then we don't need to put any jobs down.
I'm sure it will just frustrate more and more people. Like last friday when I took my form in between my jobs, I had 30 minutes to get from one to the other and goto centrelink in between. I ended up spending 20 minutes in there as i had to sign these stupid activity agreements. Soon I should be able to get rid of the need to go in there.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
So what’s in the news.
In a few weeks time there will be an election, and so we now have to deal with adverts where each party degrade their opponents. Unfortunately it is a two party system with each Labour or Liberal/Nationals in power. I heard something about the system changing so that the minority parties will have a greater influence in government.
The way I see it which ever party holds government, not much will change. I wonder how many people that vote actually care about the elections, and how many people research what the parties’ views on everything are. I can’t be bothered reading lots of stuff about them to determine who to vote for. It’s actually the preferences that get a party through into power. When people vote for the Greens, or Democrats, or whoever else, these parties decide which of the two majors they support and give preference to.
It might be interesting to know what percentage of the population would vote in this county if it wasn’t compulsory. I probably wouldn’t vote. Really by making people vote it’s another way that the government can track people. Although they can track peoples movements through their mobile phones anyway, if they wanted to.
How far away are we to having this national ID card which records personal history, that is stored in a computer system somewhere in the world that can potentially be hacked into and have the information stolen. Medicare cards can sorta be used as an ID card.
The Telstra T3 shares are available now for shareholders to apply for with a first instalment of $2 a share. The current share price is just under $4 a share so they’ll probably decide that the final instalment will be another $2 a share whenever that will be. Hopefully the share price does go up again; otherwise we are wasting more money. Currently it’s still at a loss for those that purchased T2.
The way I see it which ever party holds government, not much will change. I wonder how many people that vote actually care about the elections, and how many people research what the parties’ views on everything are. I can’t be bothered reading lots of stuff about them to determine who to vote for. It’s actually the preferences that get a party through into power. When people vote for the Greens, or Democrats, or whoever else, these parties decide which of the two majors they support and give preference to.
It might be interesting to know what percentage of the population would vote in this county if it wasn’t compulsory. I probably wouldn’t vote. Really by making people vote it’s another way that the government can track people. Although they can track peoples movements through their mobile phones anyway, if they wanted to.
How far away are we to having this national ID card which records personal history, that is stored in a computer system somewhere in the world that can potentially be hacked into and have the information stolen. Medicare cards can sorta be used as an ID card.
The Telstra T3 shares are available now for shareholders to apply for with a first instalment of $2 a share. The current share price is just under $4 a share so they’ll probably decide that the final instalment will be another $2 a share whenever that will be. Hopefully the share price does go up again; otherwise we are wasting more money. Currently it’s still at a loss for those that purchased T2.
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