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Post by latindancer on Dec 24, 2012 6:25:25 GMT 7
The way Centrelink reduces peoples' pensions by 30% after they are married makes me irate. I can understand it while people are in Oz, but being O/S is a different matter. and the savings involved in living with a partner are minimal....NOT $120 per week. Whilst married O/S, I reckon I was saving about $25 per week.......the cost of my rent (which included utilities). That is all. It's also disgusting how they peer into your personal life.
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Post by peter on Dec 24, 2012 14:33:45 GMT 7
Leaving the overseas part out of it, I still do not understand the rationale that a man in Australia, with a non working wife, should not get the single pension.
Not too many years ago, they would have got a married rate with the wife put on the "Partner Allowance".
Now, a wife who has been dependent on the husband for many years perhaps, gets no Centrelink benefit, and the husband gets half the married rate.
Is this the result of some sort of women's liberation philsophy? Miss Ogyny would be pleased.
In today's paper there was an article about all the kids leaving school in Canberra were off to their holidays without a care in the world for their exam results.
Why? because they no longer have exams!.........just assessments.
The females are now higher achievers than the boys, cause as it turns out, boys need competition to excel, but the female nature is more of cooperation and social participation and that puts the system in favour of the feminine gender.
So the result is the boys are becoming drongos and the females are ahead academically.
There is more to this than changing social attitudes, there is also a ""feminisation of the masculine gender" happening due to industrial age pollution where we now have fertility clinics cause so many men and women are malfunctioning............and those are the "straights".............not the back to front ones.
But back to the husband who long supported a non working wife. Why does Centrelink not pay him at a single rate?
If the Partner Allowance is no longer warranted, the responsibilities recognised by paying the Partner Allowance did not disappear when they abolished it and a single rate payment would have recognised that..................but they did not recognise it.
So it looks like the husband role has had it and the death of the Partner Allowance was the official funeral.
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Post by peter on Dec 24, 2012 15:09:21 GMT 7
It was the Wife Allowance that was discontinued, not the Partner Allowance.
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Post by peter on Dec 28, 2012 11:19:29 GMT 7
The women libbers movement have a hatred against the husband model. That is regarded as socially incorrect.
Their ideal is to turn men into Tim Matheson do alikes, where the husband is the submissive partner. He just runs the errands, opens and closes the doors, perms the hair, and poses for photographs. Children not allowed.
No, husbands are not useless. Its just that the women libbers have revised the duty statement.
And the women of course rule the country and make the law.
If they keep this up they might introduce a Husband Allowance to help defray the expenses.
Times have changed
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Post by Banjo on Dec 28, 2012 14:26:16 GMT 7
Banker has a problem with the wife model..... after many years he's still avoiding them.
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Post by zorro1 on Dec 28, 2012 16:31:34 GMT 7
Im still looking for a model wife..
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Post by ghostbuster on Dec 28, 2012 16:59:50 GMT 7
The only good model wife are the ones in shop window of David Jones, Myers etc lol..
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Post by peter on Dec 29, 2012 6:04:11 GMT 7
On the influence of men in government.
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Early in 2013, an emergency meeting of Cabinet is called.
Prime Minister opens the meeting with the announcement; "Going on these poll figures there is no way that we can win the election".
Jenni Macklin; "Correct the figures are just as disastrous now as they were before".
Nicola Roxan; "Emergency measures above and beyond the rule of law are necessary in the national interest".
Julia Gillard; "What we need is new blood!''
A pregnant silence follows.
Tim Matheson drops his tea cup,
and the male members of Cabinet flee to the exits.
The remaining members of Cabinet then decide upon what new blood measures are necessary.
........................ Macbeth; "Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from my hand?"
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."
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The present it not like the past, but whilst the past is not in sight, it has not disappeared either.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Dec 29, 2012 6:08:25 GMT 7
I'll pay that Peter.... very good.
And....
you have to wonder who really controls these people.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Dec 30, 2012 15:28:41 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 17:26:15 GMT 7
now this may be a sill question,but if you go overseas and get married do you still have to come back every 6 weeks,or can you stay and live with your wife there and still get the married rate of pension ,lets say you rent your house out so as to stay a reserdent does 6 week rule still apply.
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Post by peter on Dec 31, 2012 21:15:03 GMT 7
Hello Terry.
I did a post on this on page 2 of the "Old Age Pension Needs A Makeover" column which covers this.
Its just an opinion, but if one were to rent out accommodation here, and go abroad to live with the wife, then it would not take long for the permanent place of residence to be deemed overseas and doing a touchdown ever six weeks would not change that. The consequence of that would be loss of Australian permanent residence, and loss of DSP whether single rate or half married rate.
A home and thus permanent residence is traditionally where the wife and family are.
The way to handle such a situation would be either;
1. to reassemble everyone in Australia or
2. to restrict visits to say three trips a year so that the situation is clearly one of...............separated status...........not a living together status
Cause under a separated status one would be entitled to a full rate DSP provided that one continued to have Australian permanent residency, which would mean spending the majority of one"s time resident in Australia....................temporary absences being allowed.................with the emphasis on temporary.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Dec 31, 2012 21:49:34 GMT 7
peter... would you kindly read my public request of your time and mind in the travel section.
thanks
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Post by peter on Jan 2, 2013 16:45:42 GMT 7
Partner Visa Cost.
I see in today's newspaper, that the cost of a Partner Visa will rise to $4,000 as from 1-1-13
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Post by bundyrum on Jan 5, 2013 4:48:34 GMT 7
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