If life on the dole was easy everyone would be on it.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 1^st, 2013 at 8:31pm:


Good point - and many bosses encourage it since anyone too good is viewed as a threat to them and not under their control...

Man - where is this country going?

AuschtraliKonzentrationsLager I - NZ is II.

Herbert you are the biggest most Ignorant person on this forum.

IF you expect people to work provide jobs to them.

Don't have a Job for a person, have a career for them.

There is a difference.


Have any of you Ignorants here actually watched the story from the link to th abc tv website, before you make any futher comment shere whatch the story,

It should be made compulsory for all centrelink staff, centrelink phycologists that make decession about people and all job network staff to watch.

The story talks about the assistance given by welfare support agencys, and in one case food vouchers given to the welfare recipient.

Then the go off with the welfare payment and there vouchers to buy food.

they come back and talk to the abc reporter about  what food they have got and what other neccessitys they have bought.

The reporter then asks how much money do you have left,and most of them only have $30 to $40 dollars left.

No one can continue to live on that for the remaining 2 weeks.

Here is the solution the Australian government needs to GET off its arse and provide Jobs to people, maybe these one year jobs in the Australian army jobs need to me made available to this age group of people rather then just the young, or those that haven't decided what there doing as yet, (those on the gap uni year after school or during there uni years.)

If you WANT PEOPLE TO WORK, MAKE JOBS AVAILABLE TO THEM, THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WALK THE STREETS TO LOOK FOR THEM.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 9:05am:



Refugees aren't brought in to fill job vacancies.

Here is the solution for the Australian government to act on.

KICK DOWN DOORS and make jobs available to the job seekers. A job seekers gets a Employment placement in their skilled and trained area of work, like we had in the CES years.

Employers don't get a choice they get a person that needs to Work.

SIMPLE and effective.

No unemployment

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 10:59am:



Problem is, who would employ someone who will leave as soon as a forklift job comes up somewhere else.

In the end its a net drain on the economy to employ people outside their skill set.
Firstly it makes all their previous training costs a waste, and secondly the employer who takes them on will have to incur the expensive costs of re-hiring when they inevitably move on to their desired job.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 11:06am:


60% of unskilled and semi-skilled factory workers are employed on a day-to-day casual basis ~ so the question is irrelevant. Bosses are used to seeing their workers come and go. I myself did casual work for 6 years before my permanent retirement.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 11:06am:


It's more of a nett cost if these cherry-pickers are warehoused indefinitely on Centrelink benefits while they wait for the job they want.

'Multi-skilling' became the catchcry at least 30 years ago. No more petulance at not being able to find exactly the job you originally trained for. Today's Australian taxi drivers and bus drivers almost all have skills certificates that have nothing to do with transporting people around the place.