QUESTION 1
You are a disability support officer who works for an employment service provider. You've been asked by your manager to pass on some questions to a client, to interview them for some marketing material.

Do you:
a. email the client the questions?

b. print off the questions on a sheet of paper for the client to answer back via email?

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QUESTION 2
You are going to print off the questions for your client to respond to via email.

Do you:
a. copy/paste them onto a word doc to print out?

b. print out the email from your manager containing the questions, then (in front of the client) use your ruler to tear the questions out of the middle of the email, handing the client a torn strip of paper?

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QUESTION 3
You use a ruler to tear out the questions from the email from your manager and hand them to your client.

Do you:
a. tear away all of the information other than the questions?

b. keep the text of the email as well so that the client can see where your manager has mentioned needing the "attached Marketing Authority Form" filled in and signed, a form that you not only haven't passed on but haven't even mentioned?

#Unemployment #Centerlink #JobSeeker #poor #Poverty

...I hate it when I go to these appointments and am left with the knowledge that I would be better at working in these places than the staff they have working for them.

This morning at my employment services provider appointment, my disability support coordinator asked me why I wear a mask, so I explained that I have fibromyalgia and that means my immune system is challenged and in a heightened state all the time.

She said that she had been reading about fibro recently because since returning from a cruise last week she had all over aches and pains, and that she went to the doctor who told her it was influenza.

...

YOU'RE SITTING NEXT TO ME WITH A FUCKING ✨ACTIVE✨ CASE OF INFLUENZA ASKING WHY I STILL WEAR MASKS?

FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOU

#Unemployment #Centerlink #poor #Poverty #JobSeeker #covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #disability #disabled #LongCovid #PutOnAMask

Potential law allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped criticised as ‘shocking overreach’

Proposed laws allowing Centrelink payments to be stripped from those evading arrest while accused of serious crimes would be a “shocking overreach of police powers into the social security system”, welfare advocates warn.

The amendment to the income apportionment bill, added by Labor this week during parliamentary debate, would mean police officers would have the power to request the cancellation of Centrelink payments to those accused of a “serious violent or sexual offence” where an arrest warrant had been issued.

#AusPol #Australia #policing #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #Criminology #CriminalJustice

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/31/australia-news-live-politics-parliament-coalition-labor-net-zero-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-epbc-nature-laws-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6903ebca8f084e5a6d198e27#block-6903ebca8f084e5a6d198e27

~UNEMPLOYMENT GOTHIC~

Last night at 6.43pm I got a phone call from someone saying they were from centrelink. They asked me to verify my details by giving them my full name, date of birth, and address... which I refused to do.

I asked why they hadn't sent a letter to my my.gov email, and they said that it was a matter that's best dealt with via a phone call and that they couldn't go into it further unless I verified my details. I told them I'd go into centrelink today and talk to them.

So, today I go to centrelink. The issue is that I was exited from my disability support provider (who does nothing, btw) for having been with them for 12 months. So I had to be recommenced with a disability support provider.. fine, I was expecting this for a couple of months now, and I'd like to be put back with Verto.

Oh, the person who called me already put me on with OCTEC, without discussing it with me, and centrelink can't change it.

So, I get sent down to OCTEC to ask them to transfer me to Verto.. and while I'm waiting to see someone I phone the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) because I know that OCTEC is going to refuse to transfer me because every person they have on their books is money they get. It's 10.52am when the call connects.

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#Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #Australia #AusPol #disability

Even with indexing, Jobseeker is 60% below the Henderson Poverty Line.

The Henderson Poverty Line is the minimum disposable income required for a household to maintain an "austere" standard of living.

If a household's income falls below the Henderson Poverty Line, they are considered to be in poverty.

Poverty is created by governments.

The Australian government continues to deliberately push unemployed people into severe poverty.
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"For singles over 22, jobseeker payments will increase by [$6.25 a week] , to a total of [$396.80 a week]."

" But anti-poverty advocates argue the small rise in benefits will do little to help elevate the financial struggle millions of Australians are facing, calling for payments to be lifted in line with the Henderson poverty line of $660.72 a week for a single person."

#AusPol #Australia #JobSeeker #poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/17/centrelink-pension-welfare-payments-increase-slightly-jobseeker-youth-allowance-cpi-indexation

We had our rental inspection this morning, I think it was fine but I won't know for certain until they get back to us and we resign the lease.

Did you know that renters in other countries don't have to jump through these hoops? That long term renting is normalised in other countries because renting isn't just seen as a step in the ladder to house ownership?

Australia has to do something, because fewer people are able to buy houses so will be renting their entire lives. Having a 6-monthly reminder (and often more frequently!) that you can be homeless at almost no notice because someone just feels like it is a leading cause of stress and has poor effects on both mental and physical health.

This is becoming worse now that home ownership is also seen as just a step in the property investment ladder, and that the goal is shifting from owning your own home to owning investment properties.

#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol

Excellent job from the RBA.

I'll be expecting my rent to come down shortly seeing as my landlord ha... wait, what?

#poor #Poverty #Unemployment #Centerlink #CostOfLivingCrisis #RecordProfitsCrisis #rent #renter #realestate #houselessness #homelessness #Australia #AusPol