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Post by siddhartha on Oct 27, 2010 18:14:40 GMT 7
This is a new section, to discuss travel information and advice.
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Post by Banjo on Oct 27, 2010 22:55:25 GMT 7
OK, siddhartha, you run it then. My original plan was to keep the board single issue with the emphasis on information rather than discussion. I really didn't want to get into a ThaiVisa.com type format and we created this board specifically to get away from that type of forum. However, if you think it's a good idea, and I believe there's a place for discussion of travel information and advice suited for DSP recipients, then feel free to carry on.
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Post by siddhartha on Oct 28, 2010 19:29:23 GMT 7
Thanks Banjo. The rationale for starting this new section, is the same as the rationale for asking you to put out the call to Aussie expats in Indonesia and other places: we can bring a lot more Overseas DSPers into this board, and encourage them to join the campaign to defend the disabled from the attacks of the government, by writing emails and letters, and hopefully organizing petitions and protests to get the attention of the Parliament. There are a lot more than 154 OS-DSPers, there is many hundreds, even thousands of them. By starting this section, I am hoping to increase the interest of Overseas DSPers, and also Overseas OAPers, and get them interested in the political campaign in the rest of the board. Also, you might notice that this board is starting to increase in prominence in Google searches. Type in "campaign wayne swan promise" into Google, and this board comes up in second place. You can see the good results of putting out the call to OS-DSPers in Indonesia already: new member scout. I hope you do a lot more of this calling out to OS-DSPers. Once we get to the target of 500 members, there will be enough cadres to form a Revolutionary Militia, and then we can storm the parliament and seize power!!! Just joking
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Post by bangalorebiker on Mar 17, 2013 5:50:02 GMT 7
excellant idea mate, i was wondering why someone had not set up this idea before, even some sort of political alliance / party etc cheers
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Post by bundyrum on Mar 17, 2013 6:29:42 GMT 7
well I'm not..jokn...all cancelled Dsp's in Indonesia...how about we get a boat..and go to Xmas Island.. if their's enough of us it'll be all over the news..but I do mean a good boat..and I am serious..or maybe Darwin..go from Sumba..we can't let shithead Gillard get away with treatn us like 2nd class people.my dad and g/dad fought so that thing can get a $116,000 pay rise..wat a bitch..I'll find the boat if we have enough dedicated people...cheers..
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Post by baranghope on Mar 17, 2013 6:32:49 GMT 7
Isn't there already a Party for us: The Greens. You can forget canvassing Labor or the LNP for anything to do with OS entitlements. That is over. Furthermore, about all those OS DSPers we don't have on the Forum books, well, unless they were grandfathered by 2004 or have recently been granted UP, they are not real. They are tourists. The real front now is the squeezing of the OS benefits, like fly-in Medicare . . . so there are going to be fewer entitlements coming, not more.
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Post by baranghope on Mar 17, 2013 8:39:52 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 12:42:27 GMT 7
Mmmmm How about we all become Aboriginals and live in Canberra. Cheaper
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Post by melnee on Mar 17, 2013 14:52:37 GMT 7
well I'm not..jokn...all cancelled Dsp's in Indonesia...how about we get a boat..and go to Xmas Island.. if their's enough of us it'll be all over the news..but I do mean a good boat..and I am serious..or maybe Darwin..go from Sumba..we can't let shithead Gillard get away with treatn us like 2nd class people.my dad and g/dad fought so that thing can get a $116,000 pay rise..wat a bitch..I'll find the boat if we have enough dedicated people...cheers.. Hi Bundy rum, I'm in East Java stuck atm due to probs with dsp suspension, due to applying for a medical ext to have an op so I can fly back to OZ. I have been told by an angry c/l customer service guy (who was angry that I was calling nearly everyday as It was urgent etc & he told me "I'm just a phone operator who puts through calls so stop calling & wait 2 weeks for c/l to call u as they are 2 busy to take calls" This guy also said & I quote "CAN'T YOU CHARTER A BOAT TO GET BACK TO OZ THEN YOU'RE STRAIGHT BACK ON DSP, OR CAN'T YOU GET ON ONE OF THOSE INDONESIAN REFUGEE BOATS & COME BACK ?" With truly believing I must have misheard, I quoted what he said back to him & said "Did you just say that?" His answer "Yes but I'm not telling you to do it it's just a suggestion" I would give ANYTHING to get on 1 of those boats & am happy to do so alone, if anyone has a contact or can tell me how to do this please please PM me, of course this info will forever remain private & I'm a good swimmer with lifesaving training so I don't care if it sinks. Please I am serious. Then when taking my number to have my call returned he asked if I was in India (I had forgotten that bit till I just read my notes. Mel Oh also be really careful with your flight details, my D$$%shit ARO was able to call Air Asia & ask anything he wanted to re my previous flight with them (I thought that had to be with a good reason & from someone higher, I'm still trying to find out how he did it through Air Asia bcoz they said he can't have just done that) From this info he is trying to use my travel from 2004 against me, I wasn't even on dsp & they were 3 yearly trips, & a visit to my husband at the time who was on a submarine & they had a short break in Singapore so I visited him. a honeymoon & 2 xmas holidays, not longer than 3 weeks each & 1 as a carer to a friend who had a boob job. This, according to him counts towards my residency. He claimed all this (as part of his decision to deny med ext & so did the ARO when I asked for PPR) even after I F$$%^ him on residency bcoz I'm still legally married in Oz I have property, car, pets, pay rent, a sick mum, with no plans to divorce yet nor property settlement from either side. I have also been asked "why haven't you gone for Spousal Maintenance from your husband?" My reply (& it was my male ARO asking) "why haven't you gone for spousal Maintenance from your husband?".....No comment. Mel
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Post by baranghope on Mar 17, 2013 16:03:23 GMT 7
No cheap flights out of Canberra, Bedwin. Of course we can say anything at the moment, as Banjo is in transit.
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Post by latindancer on Mar 17, 2013 18:42:43 GMT 7
Mel, They didn't need to phone Air Asia. Centrelink can access your immigration records and see when you have flown in & out of Australia during the last 20 years. It was in the paperwork I got for my SSAT hearing, though it didn't need to be there.....
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Post by Banjo on Mar 17, 2013 18:50:15 GMT 7
No cheap flights out of Canberra, Bedwin. Of course we can say anything at the moment, as Banjo is in transit. Don't bet on it, slow airport wifi or not Banjo still has his eagle eye on you xxxxs.
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Post by Banjo on Mar 17, 2013 23:52:52 GMT 7
2 countries later................
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Post by melnee on Mar 18, 2013 11:46:58 GMT 7
Mel, They didn't need to phone Air Asia. Centrelink can access your immigration records and see when you have flown in & out of Australia during the last 20 years. It was in the paperwork I got for my SSAT hearing, though it didn't need to be there..... Hi yes i know they do that but this ARO had booking details including booking information on those booking numbers where I had changed flights due to needing med ext & is accusing me with a copy of my 1st return ticket in his hands of not booking a return ticket when I left Australia. That was spooky, even though he's wrong he has stuff not recorded on immigration. So much for airline privacy
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 16:29:11 GMT 7
No cheap flights out of Canberra, Bedwin. Of course we can say anything at the moment, as Banjo is in transit. Yes i know. But the Bugger Is still watching us lol
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