a lot of quoting multible posts here just makes the topic not make sense now.

trained and qualified Disability Care worker, and yet these Job networks I have had have deceided that I am unemployable and have deceided and arranged it with Centrelink that I should be put on a Disability support pension. I will NOT go On a DSP

thats the problem they refuse to help me and have arranged with Centrelink and their Phycologists to shove me on a DSP pension.
virtually telling me to be quite and sit on a pension.
I already have a pension concession card and yet I am unemployed, not a pensioner.

warrigal wrote on Jun 4^th, 2012 at 12:35pm:



Hardly, if someone walks through my door for an interview, I will look at WHAT they studied first, then I will look at their University and level of education and I will couple this with the experience they have to date in their employment for best fit.

For example if I want a Senior Finance Analyst (the last role I recruited) - I am obviously going to want someone who has a CA/CPA, Accounting/Economics degree and relevant experience to date.

So just saying "he went to university, he has the job" is not how I roll.

What use will an incredibly smart guy who has a BSc in BioChemisty be to me????

When I turned 50 I moved interstate and never had another job for 15 years until retirement except a 3 month stint for a council.  I turned myself inside out to get a job. I think of the three quarters of a million wages I lost and curse Howard and his Ilk. People told me I wouldn't get a job after 50 but I didn't believe them, I do now.

Yadda yadda yadda.................................................

You forgot to mention sick people, of course they can't vote because they are a stain on society. Sick people don't contribute anything, they suck the funds with all their stupid expensive medication and time wasting care they need.

Only the strong and healthy can vote for they are the backbone of the country. And only those strong and healthy that are employed full time with at least 8 hours overtime chucked in. If they're not putting in overtime they are lazy and they don't deserve to vote.

Women who stay home to raise their family should not be able to vote, they can work just like any one else.....having babies doesn't stop them from working and they can do the overtime too fair is fair.

I'm sick of everyone thinking they have the right to vote, it makes me sick. As a matter of fact only those earning over $200,000 a year should get to vote, anyone earning less than that surely can't pay enough tax to give them the right to vote.

Those people who have worked for 30 years and paid taxes think they should get the freedom to vote, just because they get retrenched......no vote until they get the job and the overtime back.

I wonder why we have compulsory voting?

THE deputy mayor of Bankstown has attacked his own constituents for being too lazy to find work, blaming "cultural traits" for having the highest unemployment rate of all Sydney council areas.

Allan Winterbottom believes the "demographic" and "nationality" in the suburbs of Greenacre, Punchbowl and Villawood showed residents there were more willing to accept government handouts than find employment.

"There are jobs out there but people have to want to work," Mr Winterbottom said. "I don't want to tell you what sort of people or nationality they are. But the culture is they get enough money to survive without working.

"We all know the problem - it's too easy on the dole. How do you encourage them to work when they get just as much on social security?"

According to the latest ABS data, people of Lebanese background made up the largest cultural group in Punchbowl (31.5 per cent) and Greenacre (27.8 per cent), while Villawood has a high proportion of people of Vietnamese background (13.8 per cent) as well as Lebanese (11.7 per cent).

The north-east of Bankstown has - at 11.6 per cent - the worst unemployment rates of all Sydney local areas.

But unemployment varies widely across the local government area, with some suburbs such as Padstow Heights enjoying low unemployment at 2.7 per cent compared to Villawood at 18.8 per cent.





Mr Winterbottom said a lack of English skills among people of migrant background, as well as fewer education opportunities among those communities, were also factors.

"I'm not anti different people. They certainly need more help, and the (unemployment) figures are terrible - more than triple the average."

Bankstown was closely followed by the south-west of Blacktown and east Fairfield, which both had unemployment levels above 11 per cent as of December.

Bankstown Mayor Khal Asfour said he was "happy" unemployment had dropped 0.5 per cent since the same period last year, even if it had been rising steadily from June when it was 10.8 per cent.

Blacktown Mayor Alan Pendleton said access to public transport was an issue, but motivation to find work was also an issue in his area.

"I'm not saying that everyone out here would take a job if they could get one tomorrow," Mr Pendleton said. "There are pockets of people there, families who have never worked, and it goes into generations."

In Fairfield, Mayor Frank Carbone said: "I believe that most people want to better themselves. I don't think anybody wants to stay at home earning $180 a week unemployment benefits."

Islamic Friendship Association chairman Keysar Trad said Mr Winterbottom should not be tarnishing an entire community with a "very, very narrow view."

Mr Trad said Muslims suffered from discrimination when it came to applying for jobs.

"I wonder if this gentleman has ever experienced discrimination in the workplace himself," he said.

"Certainly, people with a Muslim-sounding name are not given the same opportunities ... as people with an Anglo-sounding name."

Is the deputy mayor of Bankstown being racist? Or has he got it right?