Abbott: “…young people, particularly students, would love to work on the weekend…” Reality check: no they don’t, students have to work on weekends because Centrelink doesn’t pay enough to survive on…
#KaiJonesIndependent #Centrelink #RealWorld #WorkOnWeekends
Category Archives: Cost of living
“No contraception, no dole” – what do you think?
Former Labor MP Gary Johns says “No contraception, no dole”.
What do you think? #NoContraceptionNoDole
http://www.news.com.au/national/former-labor-minister-gary-johns-suggests-linking-the-dole-to-contraception/story-fncynjr2-1227169842999
Fuel for $1/litre over Christmas…?
Fuel prices may hit parity for Christmas holidays! Use discount fuel vouchers and make the most of it! #FuelPriceParity
http://www.afr.com/p/markets/is_australia_about_to_hit_petrol_LFhGgRrzqq7qyE6mecYI5I
FB link: https://www.facebook.com/kaiforparliament/posts/312274855650426
5% cheaper public transport, starting today…
Dear Brisbanites, remember this survey asking what we wanted to do with the savings from the scrapped carbon tax, we voted for cheaper public transport. The 5% savings take effect from today.
http://translink.com.au/about-translink/reporting-and-publications/media-releases/details/2756
“Food for thought”- how much does your family eat in one week?
“Their portraits feature pictures of each family with a week’s worth of food purchases. We soon learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed. Thus cultures can move, sometimes in a single jump, from traditional diets to the vexed plenty of global-food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more of nutritionally questionable food. And their health suffers.”
http://foodmatters.tv/articles-1/what-the-world-eats-shocking-photos
Welfare cards for welfare payments – what do you think?
Energy providers’ carbon tax repeal statements
Carbon tax repeal statements for HorizonPower (1), and electricity (2) and gas (3) for Origin, check with your energy provider for theirs.
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Carbon tax has been repealed, lets see the price drop
Mr Abbott, you’ve fulfilled an election promise and repealed the carbon tax, you sold this promise on the basis that, among other things, abolishing the tax will decrease the cost of living: prove it. Lets see it happen.