So taking 33.26M, dividing it by 52 and dividing again by 5 that comes to 127,923 unanswered calls per day.
5000 job cuts from successive governments and 1200 last year alone, may be a reason.
Yep. Also doesnāt help that Centrelink has become very complicated and quick to cut payments. The turnaround from this, is that those who are doing the right thing need to call often to ask questions about what the right thing to do is in their cirucumstance. Even when you do the right thing (like submitting documents) if itās not āchecked offā by staff (documents are submitted electronically through their app but it seems someone needs to look at it) then you get a letter stating you havenāt done something, which then requires a call, then a follow up etcā¦
Staff are under so much pressure it just becomes a churn fest and itās no wonder they get things wrong so often. There is a need to do more but that means no time for checks and balances.
Itās currently a horrible system.
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Maybe we need to consider a living wage for all and cut out all other entitlements and benefits.
Simple. Fair. Equal.
Wonāt happen.
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Nice commentary by Tony Burke:
āIāve seen too many occasions where women staffers become the subject of gossip and innuendo, where their professionalism is undermined by smear, and where they are treated as less than the smart, professional, and dedicated workers they are. Iāve seen women miss out on promotion because of it and Iāve seen women leave altogether. But there are two things Iāve never heard. Iāve never heard a politician, let alone a Cabinet Minister use parliamentary privilege to slander staff the way Michaelia Cash did. And Iāve never heard the same sort of smear and gossip used against a male staffer. All I hope is that women who want to contribute to public life in years to come for whatever political party they believe matches their views, realise it was the people who condemned Michaelia Cashās comments who represent modern Australia. Michaelia Cash doesnāt. And to the women who have already made the decision to work tirelessly for a political cause, you deserved so much better than this and we will keep fighting to make it better.ā
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Apparently, Cash misjudged the intent of Cameronās question. Her new Chief of Staff was transferred from another Ministerās office and she assumed that he was connecting that to the bonk ban. Cameronās interest appears to relate to anti- union appointees.
As for the comments on Burke and Shorten by that disgusting person Dutton, no mention of the several marriage break ups on the Coalition side ( including at senior level). This is a man who lied about Save the Children.
Barnaby tees off at the media for assuming the child is his. What a disgusting human being, I donāt see how this interview helps him at all, but to put his partner in the gun line like this is a special human
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Really? Sheās being paid with our money, by a politician knobbing her, Iād say thereās a very good argument itās in the public interest. Plus, itās clearly true theyāve been knobbing
What an utter and contemptible ā ā ā ā of a human being.
Trip, you want slander? Quote this, in your make believe court case with your make believe judge and make believe laws.
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I really feel sorry for vicki campion in all this but wtf was she thinking sleeping with that POS. Fmd you donāt air your doubts about stuff like this in public - is he trying to humiliate her into leaving him. Canāt believe this guy was deputy pm and he has the gall to suggest heās doing everybody a favour by not going through with a paternity test - just fark off already.
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Still no self reflection from him about why get lost his position
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To attack the media for assuming the child was his is one thing, but it takes some class to make everyone look much worse in doing so. Heās a colossal fool.
Soā¦
āIād like to say that itās absolutely important that there be a circuit-breaker, not just for the parliament, but more importantly, a circuit-breaker for Vikki, for my unborn childā¦"
I meanā¦thereās a couple of things thereā¦
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His media advisor is certainly worth their six figure salary.
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What an absolute grub of a human being.
To publicly try and justify yourself by saying the woman you are currently in a relationship with sleeps around and may be pregnant to someone else is utterly reprehensible.
Anyone who votes for him needs to have their heads read.
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We really donāt need politicians that say things like āno one ever asked meā as a reason for not being truthful.
The New England voters will look the other way.
Wow. He just undid the only ethical part of what he had done over the last couple of weeks. Stick by the woman he had got himself into this mess with in the first place. It lasted, what, less than a week before he also blew that up spectacularly. What a class act this guy is.
They wonāt give poor Barnaby a break.