I am not just an Australian - I am an 'ORDINARY' Australian!!

[fourandsixpants]

according to Hockey.....on Q & A now.....because I would be considered a low income earner. *PPPFFFFT!

I never watch this carp but the tele was on.

Thank goodness I watched long enough to hear him tell what I really am.

My personality disorder has miraculously disappeared?!!

[fourandsixpants]

to am*3

Calling people ordinary isn't very flattering.

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It's not about flattery. That is most superficial.

It's about how you treat others. It begins with the thoughts, then the words, then the deeds.

Mr Hockey will never be ordinary in any shape, way or form. Thank goodness.

He may think he is extraordinary but IMO he is not this either.

Lying continuously, day after day must be very stressful.

[li.vish]

Hello, everyone. This discussion is getting a little heated. Could we please communicate with a more civil tone. Thanks!

[i-need-a-martini]

I think it was a poor choice of words and shows how out of step he is with people.

[boris1gary]

So I read this morning that hockey foreshadowed raising the preservation age for super. So all those who were thinking  the changes to the pension age wouldn't be a problem for them, think again.

[izabsmiling]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

I am a trained teacher and have worked as one.

I have given generously of my time for free to tutor adults and children-reading and writing.

I am a qualified nurse and have worked as one.

I have worked in Marketing and Advertising.

I served in the Defence Force as an Officer.

I am presently a carer.

I do not sit on my butt all day

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I admire you and the strength of character which is evident in the level of restraint you show in your reply 

[puddleback]

Iza...was that before it was edited by the mods???

[love*today]

lol

[lane-ends · Accepted solution]

Nothing wrong with "ordinary", it is not an insult. The insult is that "ordinary" should be used with contempt and be associated as lazy.

I am a worker and a carer of of someone with a serious mental disability. It is impossible to care and have a well paid part time job. Any job you have is likely to be low paid due to restrictions placed on you by caring role. You are not allowed to work more than 25 hours, nor can you if you want to care effectively. The carer pension is reduced by 50% starting at a threshold of about $75 a week for a single and about $135 a week for a couple. Slashing 50% off the pay from a low paid part time job, means you are anchored in poverty.

Caring is not the same as being unemployed whereby any work alievates being unemployed by definition. The carer role is not lessened by being employed, it is simply doubling your work load. The more you put into the second role the less compensation you get for the former. The carer is keeping the cared for out of the medical system, and so is saving the system a fortune and getting a pittance in return. Making the carer role untenable means those in need for care will end up being a huge drain on a system that can't cope with them

Giving up a well paid career to live on a pittance to care for someone else is far from easy, nor ordinary, it takes a special level of empathy and sacrifice to do so. Someone whos goal is to work obsessively whose only purpose is to make themselves as comfortable as possible, is not a badge of being a great person

If I am ordinary, I am proud to be ordinary, I am a far better person than when I had lucrative professional career and was shouting myself expensive trips and luxuries, because I thought I was better than ordinary..no I was just self interested then. I didn't care about "ordinary" people, I thought they should just "earn or learn' too. I am ashamed I used to think like that. I was not better, I was just ignorant

[silverfaun]

Ordinary, what does it mean? are all the people who go about their busines just ordinary people...yes they are, ordinary is just a descriptor to the masses of people who inhabit the earth and there's no other word that can be subscribed to us.

Or would you prefer to be called outstanding brilliant and honour worthy and would that satisfy your  opinion of yourself?

There's nothing wrong with ordinary people that's what we are to people who don't know us personally.

[izabsmiling]

I know.I saw  My comments are based on before