I totally agree prawn.
Im sure there are many young people like yourself who will be graduating this year or soon with not much to look for in the job market.
And the problem with politics today is that the days of nation-building are a by-gone era. Most of these clowns in politics care about the short-term and what they can get for themselves while in office and who will offer them a whopping salary in the private sector once they get out.
Most of them couldnt care less about the country just their OWN hip-pockets. But like Beej said dont give up mate there are jobs out there. Just dont expect any favors from either side of politics in Canberra. Most are too busy counting their whopping tax-payer funded super plan when they get voted out after two terms at the age of 38.
THE Big Australian has turned out to be a big disappointment to the miners and locals around Ravensthorpe and Hopetoun.
"It's terrible," said Murray Podmore, a scaffolder with a wife, two children and a mortgage who worked at the $2.2 billion Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation for six months before being one of almost 1800 laid off yesterday.
THE number of people in the jobless queue is much higher than official figures because more than 800,000 part-time workers are desperate to work more hours.
"Unfortunately, under-employment is an issue that has not been understood by the Government or by those trying to predict the economic outlook for Australia," Roy Morgan Research chief executive Michele Levine said.
"The Government needs to understand real unemployment and the even more insidious problem of under-employment. There's a crucial issue of part-time employment (people who are working part-time but want to work full-time, or at least more hours than they are currently working)."
Industries hit worst by under-employment include the retail sector, in which about 170,000 people, or 14 per cent, are part-time workers looking to work more hours, and the hospitality and recreational sectors, which have about 177,000, or 20 per cent, under-employed.
"A further 254,000 people, or 9.5 per cent of those employed in community services, are also under-employed," she said.
The jobless rate has risen to a two-year high of 4.5 per cent, with more than 500,000 people in the unemployed queue.
Of course. And don't forget all those poor asylum seekers. They all deserve to get the dole more than any australian does. Let em in, I say. They are welcome to the cultural abyss that this country has become. And who do we blame when violence and crime gets out of hand?The great under employment sham is being exposed more and more .....
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24954039-36418,00.html
Will we get another 300k immigrants this year to top up the under/unemployment ques ?
And who do we blame when violence and crime gets out of hand?
THE Federal Government will hold crisis talks tomorrow with charities, welfare groups and employment agencies to discuss boosting the welfare system in preparation for the expected surge in unemployment caused by the global financial crisis.
Amid warnings the system is ill equipped to help the tens of thousands more people expected to lose their jobs, the Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will meet groups including the Australian Council of Social Service, Catholic Social Services and the St Vincent de Paul Society.
They will consider raising the unemployment payment by $30 a week and increasing the resources of welfare agencies, and discuss short-term relief such as supplementing the income of people who lose their jobs or are moved to part-time work.
Yes anyone can find a job just might not be what you had i mind during this nasty lil recession though ....
All those employers struggling to fill positions in the past will have those "hungrier" types tapping on the door this year
one of them can't sell his home without losing 100's of 1,000's based on current offers (Ferny Grove, Brisbane - upper middle class - too high price range for 1st home buyers).
Chickenfeed is a somewhat iconic discount retail chain in Tasmania with 28 stores spread across the state. That compares with 29 Woolworths and 14 Coles stores so Chickenfeed's presence is locally quite significant.Yes.. as well as "The Warehouse Group", and "Chickenfeed" (whoever they are)
I have heard that claim many times but thus far nobody has been able to offer any proof when questioned.Maybe this is off cue, anyone have an opinion?
The fedral government uses 500mill of tax payers money annualy to subsidize there fuel consumption, anyone ware of this? it is a fact.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/strathfield-calls-in-administrators-20090128-7rcx.html
"After due consideration of the company's recent performance ... and the continued negative and worsening retail outlook for at least the first half of the 2009 calendar year, and in particular the significant deterioration of the company's working capital position and funding requirements going forward that have emerged following poor Christmas trading figures, the board has resolved to take decisive steps to restructure the Strathfield Group,'' the company said.
The Strathfield board has appointed Brian Silvia and Andrew Cummins of BRI Ferrier as voluntary administrators.
I am living quite 'poor' at the moment after 3 months overseas and myself and my partner are struggling to get work.
Ill be back at uni to further my qualifications this year and will get the $115 a week from the government, so for me that is plenty to live off.
After travelling to some of the poorer places of the world in the last 3 months, I feel incredibly grateful to be getting my $115 a week. Which is 100x more then alot of people i just saw earn.
No matter how bad it gets over the next few years, at least people in Australia won't go hungry or sick without medical care.
I'd like to know this too. $115 p.w.! My rates alone are much more than that.While i totally agree with your sentiment re: overseas conditions how can you live off $115 pw? Either your not paying rent or your house is already paid off (even still you have rates and fee's etc)...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/29/2476811.htm51m jobs could disappear in 2009: UN
Up to 51 million jobs worldwide could disappear by the end of this year as a result of the economic slowdown that has turned into a global employment crisis, a United Nations agency said.
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