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whiteknight Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 8362 melbourne Gender:	Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Jan 17^th, 2020 at 3:55am Australia/Minimum wage $19.49 The current minimum wage in Australia is $740.80 per week, which equates to a minimum hourly rate of $19.49. The minimum wage is the absolute lowest that an employee can be paid. This minimum wage was set on May 30, 2019 and must be adhered to by all businesses operating in Australia.
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Valkie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16142 Central Coast Gender:	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #1 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 4:03am How can anyone live on that? That's pocket change. I'll bet pollies and senior public servants spend more than that on grog ANF drugs every week.
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Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia
Reply #2 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 4:29am

Valkie wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 4:03am:

How can anyone live on that?
That's pocket change.

I'll bet pollies and senior public servants spend more than that on grog ANF drugs every week.

I knew a lawyer about - nearly 20 years ago -
he said that he wouldn't get out of bed for under $500k per annum.
Any less than that and he said you can't do anything much with the money.

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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26513 Australia	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #3 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 5:30am Most low paid ppl dont even get that because hardly any jobs are full time anymore Spot
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Captain Caveman Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6211 Gender:	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #4 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 5:43am Little wonder most smarter people work for cash in hand. Fkkk the greedy gov. Send the bastards broke....oh hang on... Cash in hand is the future. The gov has made it this way. And When they remove cash....we go back to rum. Tax free living will never die.
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Sir Spot of Borg Gold Member Offline WE ARE BORG Posts: 26513 Australia	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #5 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 7:11am When I lived in Darwin many moons ago the currency was cartons of beer Spot
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Captain Caveman Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6211 Gender:	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #6 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 7:13am Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 7:11am: When I lived in Darwin many moons ago the currency was cartons of beer Spot I think that is Australia wide. 🤣
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Reply #7 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 1:28pm

The real problem isnt necessarily the minimum wage itself, its greedy corporations increasing their overheads (landlords making small business and grocery stores overpay for renting the land they are doing business in) as well as bonuses to the higher ups each year which in every industry.Inflation and the cost of living from inflation is the real problem, not really whatever the minimum wage is. If a loaf of bread was $1.20 rather than $2, that would make much more of a difference to the average poor family/person than giving them a $2 an hour raise on the minimum wage, which inflation would gobble up by jacking up the prices on all the necessary things a person needs to survive (basic grocery needs, insurance, car and house repayments, power and water bills etc)

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Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia
Reply #8 - Jan 17^th, 2020 at 4:46pm

Captain Caveman wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 5:43am:

Little wonder most smarter people work for cash in hand.
Fkkk the greedy gov. Send the bastards broke....oh hang on... Grin

Cash in hand is the future. The gov has made it this way. Wink

And When they remove cash....we go back to rum.
Tax free living will never die.

This is why the grubberment is making it illegal to purchase anything over $10,000.00 with cash.

This is why the grubberment is trying to introduce plastic only economy.

By law, if you barter goods.
You are required to pay tax equivalent to the mandatory tax involved if it were a cash transaction.
But no one does it.

The grubberment waste our taxes.
They pay themselves obscene incomes and benifits.
They know the danger of a cash based society and are doing everything in their power to destroy it.

I try to pay tax free any time I can.
I try to work for cash every time I can.
The grubberment can simply continue to do what they do best.
Rob us blind.

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A WONDERFUL, PEACEFUL, BEAUTIFUL DREAM.
A DREAM OF A WORLD THAT HAS NEVER KNOWN ISLAM
A DREAM OF A WORLD FREE FROM THE HORRORS OF ISLAM.

SUCH A WONDERFUL DREAM
O HOW I WISH IT WERE TRU

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 49476 At my desk.	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #9 - Jan 19^th, 2020 at 8:30am Valkie wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 4:03am: How can anyone live on that? That's pocket change. I'll bet pollies and senior public servants spend more than that on grog ANF drugs every week. It depends on where you live.
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Reply #10 - Jan 19^th, 2020 at 8:37am

It's still a lot more than the USA wage by far.
Throw in the fact that much of Australian Retail and Hospitality now 'expect' TIPS and as I found out yesterday at a small quaint restaurant that exhibits that it has been on Getaway - that it incorporates a 10% surcharge from the Customer's pockets to pay for the Penalty Rates of its employees.
Never mind people 'promoting' the restaurant from word of mouth! Roll Eyes

Free of Charge.

So I didn't have the correct change for the bill ($37) and motioned to get it, when the owner's face dropped sourly (they didn't want payment by card as they don't have a tip option on it) - until I stepped back and said "Here" and handed two $20 notes and said "Keep the change." Roll Eyes

Yep - even the snooty boutique brigade are nothing more than scamming beggars. Roll Eyes

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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 107130 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #11 - Jan 19^th, 2020 at 8:44am Boeing 737 software engineers got $9 per hour: www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1579384561/1#1 Then the aeroplanes starting falling out of the sky.
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 49781 Gender:	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #12 - Jan 19^th, 2020 at 8:46am Tips or Penalty Rates - make the choice Retail Australia?!
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Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia
Reply #13 - Jan 19^th, 2020 at 3:27pm

Valkie wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 4:46pm:

Captain Caveman wrote on Jan 17^th, 2020 at 5:43am:

Little wonder most smarter people work for cash in hand.
Fkkk the greedy gov. Send the bastards broke....oh hang on... Grin

Cash in hand is the future. The gov has made it this way. Wink

And When they remove cash....we go back to rum.
Tax free living will never die.

This is why the grubberment is making it illegal to purchase anything over $10,000.00 with cash.

This is why the grubberment is trying to introduce plastic only economy.

By law, if you barter goods.
You are required to pay tax equivalent to the mandatory tax involved if it were a cash transaction.
But no one does it.

The grubberment waste our taxes.
They pay themselves obscene incomes and benifits.
They know the danger of a cash based society and are doing everything in their power to destroy it.

I try to pay tax free any time I can.
I try to work for cash every time I can.
The grubberment can simply continue to do what they do best.
Rob us blind.

This bloke summed it up perfectly.

If he was still alive then I'd vote him for president of Australia.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 49781 Gender:	Re: Whats The current Minimum Wage In Australia Reply #14 - Jan 19^th, 2020 at 6:23pm Lex 'Packer' Luther
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