this is a excellent budget

[*mrgrizz*]

for the first time in years the cash cow.....me......single, no kids hasn't been spanked.

and i will be paying less for your kids......you know the ones that you decided to have not me

[boris1gary]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

what perfect world was that in ?

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It must have been a very very very long time ago this "world', the government has been paying child endowment since 1941, sorry icyfroth for my earlier post, I didn't realise how old you are.

[boris1gary]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

My doctor charges me something like $38 to go see her. I pay that and then get a part refund from medicare.

Im wondering if now all i will have to pay is $7.00 to go see her OR will my part refund just be $7.00 less than what it was before?

Ohh and so glad you are happy with the budget grizz. Lets hope you dont get mugged or robbed by some poor Aussie who chose to have kids, then lost their job, cant find another and cant get NewStart for 6 months so they have to turn to crime just to feed their family.

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Daydream, if you go to a non bulk billing Dr, the only difference will be that the portion that you get back from medicare has been reduced.

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@lane-ends wrote:

Remember when wars used to cull the population so that their wasn't an excess of youth competing for jobs.

When the the mentally ill where just locked away in asylum

Kids were sent to work in the pits

3rd world conditions for kids was ok

The old and sick just died early due to poor medical system

Privilege was inherited and everyone else can go eat worms if they weren't happy.

Disabled just had to sit on a street corner with cap in hand

Abused kids just had to shut up and keep it in the family.

If the wife nagged too much just give her a good pasting. Its a husbands responsibilty to keep her in line

Then the do gooders started to interfere and ruined it all bringing in welfare and giving the 'ordinary" people a chance to get out of the gutter

Remember when you used to have a job for life and not kicked on the scrap heap any time and told to "earn or learn".

Living on welfare is hardly an easy gig. Sure means test it, but cull the top not the bottom. Getting it reduced once you start living the high life when you start earning over $75 a week. Where's the insentive when you get a 50cent in the dollar cut at that threshold. So whats the governments response. Freeze the threshold, a reduction by stealth

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Actually no I don't remember any of that because I grew up in an age where young people got married and kids and stayed together and raised them

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Hey! what happened to the rest of my post? I took me ages to compose that and only top line came out!

Geez I hate when that happens!

[cherry*135]

DDB you will pay $38 + $5  as Govt has reduced the Medicare benefit.. these changes start next year (July, I think).

The $7 payment is only charged Bulk Bill Clinics. (the extra $2 (above $5) is an incentive payment the Dr keeps)

[daydream**believer]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@daydream**believer wrote:

My doctor charges me something like $38 to go see her. I pay that and then get a part refund from medicare.

Im wondering if now all i will have to pay is $7.00 to go see her OR will my part refund just be $7.00 less than what it was before?

Ohh and so glad you are happy with the budget grizz. Lets hope you dont get mugged or robbed by some poor Aussie who chose to have kids, then lost their job, cant find another and cant get NewStart for 6 months so they have to turn to crime just to feed their family.

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Daydream, if you go to a non bulk billing Dr, the only difference will be that the portion that you get back from medicare has been reduced.

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well that sucks. I was hoping i was only gonna have to pay $7.00 now

[freakiness]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

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That's what the minister for women is for. To make sure if we tread on the man's domain we pay dearly

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....unbelievable. It's not even equal rights.

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No surprise at all from this PM.  He owns 4 women and thinks that makes him feminist. He does not know the meaning of the word.

[icyfroth]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@izabsmiling wrote:

what perfect world was that in ?

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It must have been a very very very long time ago this "world', the government has been paying child endowment since 1941, sorry icyfroth for my earlier post, I didn't realise how old you are.

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No idea what your'e on about.

[cherry*135]

Nope.

 icy wrote: If you're a Uni student why would you take time off work to have a baby?

The issue is a women with a University Degree & a HELP Loan  who gets a job, in the future she could be out of the workforce for several years raising her children.

She will be earning no income, making no payments from her salary to reduce the loan and her total amount payable will rise rapidly  under the new changes, because of the interest rate being applied to it (6%) over those years.

[purplecarrot-top]

If you're a Uni student why would you take time off work to have a baby?


My daughter had a baby last year in her final year for nursing. She went part time once hubs was born and is still part time. Will finish in November. She has a partner and gets little from the government. But she does have a HECS bill.

I think most would revert to part time in these instances.

[izabsmiling]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@izabsmiling wrote:

what perfect world was that in ?

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It must have been a very very very long time ago this "world', the government has been paying child endowment since 1941, sorry icyfroth for my earlier post, I didn't realise how old you are.

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I don't know that there has ever been a time where everyone got married and had children and where all children born are  able to  be raised by their  two married parents  (no death ,accidents,sickness or separation of any kind,no homosexuality and people who weren't allowed to marry who they want).