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Post by lynne on Feb 19, 2012 10:48:14 GMT 7
Thanks for that info! Should i be ordered to do another JCA I will start squawking about the government wasting tax payers money.
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Post by Banjo on Feb 19, 2012 10:56:10 GMT 7
Make sure you write to your Federal MP. Regularly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2012 12:27:12 GMT 7
Welcome Lynne Sorry to hear about your situation. Plus we normally do not show our email address. As you never know who is checking the board out. It is a personal thing, but only you can decide on this.
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Post by Banjo on Feb 19, 2012 12:41:41 GMT 7
I think the worse thing that can happen is that some of those 200 "guests" we get on average every day carry it back to their lair and she gets lots of helpful emails about weight loss or penis enlargement.
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Post by spaceyone on Feb 19, 2012 15:59:17 GMT 7
Feel free to send a private message to others members, if you want to speak 'off the board', or to exchange email addresses.
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Post by lynne on Feb 20, 2012 2:42:57 GMT 7
I have been sending emails to International Centrelink - even SAAt forwarded one email along however the last 3 months I have not received a return email saying my email arrived and the name of the officer whose desk it landed on.
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Post by Banjo on Feb 20, 2012 6:57:54 GMT 7
Centrelink, International or otherwise, have never answered my emails. I understand some people talk to individual officers by this means but I don't think I've heard of a general inquiry receiving an answer. Maybe an understandable reluctance to commit themselves in writing.
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Post by lynne on Feb 20, 2012 13:49:41 GMT 7
In the past I always received a read receipt from the staff member who opened the email however since I started squawking I think they must be accidentally pushing the delete button.........on numerous occasions
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Post by richardb on Feb 20, 2012 15:56:28 GMT 7
I was planning on fainting at the airport and have them cart me off to the local hospital in a nice comfortable ambulance.... This I will have to do because due to the problems of centrelink and having to leave my adopted 13 year old my monkeys home etc etc my blood pressure keeps sky rocketing, I faint, feel stressed and overwhelmed by what lies ahead that my doctor has declared me unfit to fly out to Darwin. My centrelink payment has already been cancelled three days ago so I am going to have to take that risk in a few days and hope I arrive alive in Australia.... Hello Lynne, It's good that you mentioned human rights in your original post. And also animal rights. Are your monkeys macaques? I saw many macaques when I visited the Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali. Your relationships with your monkeys and your adopted child are very essential parts of your Human Rights, and I suggest you take the Australian Government to court for breaching your human rights. And also animal rights. Perhaps you could write to Peter Singer and get him to help you protect your monkeys from possible abandonment and breaches of their animal rights. They should even be eligible for a small carers allowance to cover the cost of their food, veterinary expenses and such. Unfortunately, like many disabled people, you may not be strong enough for such a fight. Perhaps you could find a Human Rights Advocate to try to obtain legal redress for the terrible plight, the heinous human rights abuses, inflicted upon you by the Australian Government: ripping your created family away from you.
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Post by lynne on Feb 20, 2012 16:54:56 GMT 7
hi Richard thanks for your words of comfort .... my monkeys. First let me defend my position (for those that think I buy a pet monkey for the fun of it -though who in their right mind would want to own an animal with hands is something no one should wish for. I rescue the monkeys that I find living on the end of a dog chain. Unfortunately, when these babies are taken from their mothers and sold in markets they can not be released back to the jungle. I for one would love to see my lot swinging free from the trees instead of my curtain rods. Anyway life can't be so bad for them because when the blighters escape their cage, the size of a house with swimming pool and television, they do not run away - they just hang about causing the neighbors grief until cartoon time at 4.30 when they return to their 5 star luxury high rise apartment . My grand daughter, well she is not really my grand daughter I found her abandoned after the bali bombing 1 on the street when she was 4 years old. I am still waiting for whoever owned her to come forward but after 10 years..... I won't hold my breath, I have a laugh. Our government! I worked throughout the bali bombing and they even offered me a medal for the work I did but I told them I would only accept this if every volunteer received one! but perhaps not as nicely as I have mentioned here.... stick it up your *%****. A muzzling technique I think because I was one of the few who would not sign some crappy statement of release not to tell what I knew. but my lips are sealed on that one and even an offer of a substantial sum of money from an Australian magazine to tell the inside of my story did not tempt me because of the suffering of the parents families and friends of the victims. I would like to take this to human rights and welfare etc but can you imagine what the government would say if they knew I fed underprivileged children and monkeys on the Australian taxpayers money...... no votes for them there. I return to Australia on Wednesday and for a while have to leave my family. I have no family in Australia, they like the government did not like my lifestyle.... stuff them all I say. I actually spent the last few months in total devastation over the new residency rulings but after stumbling on this forum has given me some hope there is light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, the mental images of people living overseas is we live a life of luxury under a coconut tree! Far from it. We do the same as we would do in Australia but choose to do it in another country........ The government set the rules years ago about the DSP pension and living overseas and many opted to start new lives, marry and have families on the word of an unreliable government who has renigged on their promises. With a government that cries non discrimination I would like to know why we are being singled out. OAP pensioners can live overseas, though they may be the next to be targetted. Why doesn't the government pick on the young and the strong instead of the sick and frail..............................
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Post by spaceyone on Feb 20, 2012 17:10:54 GMT 7
I think you should sell your story Lyne, to the magazine, but not the one of the bombings, but of the monkeys and your DSP plight.
While there are plenty of people who would condone you for spending their tax money on supporting people and animals who are in bad circumstances, there are also others who would want to support you.
It highlights the reasons for pensioners to live abroad, the ability to not only support themselves, but to help others as well, making yourself feel worthwhile when unable to work any more.
The Australian public would be sympathetic to being able to attend to medical issues there, as we are all aware of the high cost of our ineffectual medical system, as it stands.
You might shame the government into 'grandmothering' you, and receive some donations to do more for the monkeys.
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Post by lynne on Feb 20, 2012 18:08:57 GMT 7
It's a thought spaceyone. Perhaps the Australian public would come to the party of children not attending school because their parents can barely feed them let alone send them to school. Where girls are sold at 13 years old and married off and mothers within the year. . Children dying because parents cannot afford a doctor and by the time they do have a little money to pay for a visit it is often too late and the child dies. THis is Bali - an island where they think everyone is well off.... not so. I live in a red light district and I see so many in need it makes me feel very humble - In my spare time I hand out condoms (donated) to the prostitutes to try to stop the spread of aids. It makes life worthwhile - however I once mentioned to my family, who aren;t short of a quid to see if they could get groups together to help - even to send one child to school - total cost $100 a year or adopt a granny and a grandpa cause $20 a month will for one couple will make such a difference to their lives - or donate school shoes fbut their reaction was I could be doing this in Australia and getting paid for it instead of bludging on A DSP pension and living the life of riley ........... Nice huh......
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Post by Banjo on Feb 20, 2012 18:19:35 GMT 7
I spend a lot of time in a similar part of the world. The large NGOs consider that they have a divine right to help these people and can get very nasty about those who they consider to be amateurs contributing. It's about money, of course, and they jealously protect the charity dollars that they consider to be exclusively theirs. I'm sure you are fully aware of this and realise how hard it would be to get any sort of government or private subsidy for your efforts.
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Post by lynne on Feb 20, 2012 18:47:07 GMT 7
Fir sure Banjo. Government handouts. Our government has so much money to throw around they can hand over 5 mill to one Indonesia charity group and not even ask how it was dispersed... they call it foreign aid .... and our govt has the nerve not to make them accountable for the spending budget. Be nice if they were so liberal with their compassion for their own citizens....
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Post by Banjo on Feb 20, 2012 18:52:40 GMT 7
Did you get my PM Lynne? Do you know how the system works? Look at the top of the page where it says DSPoverseas and the topic heading is. Click on where it says "Hey Lynne etc"
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