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What about the possibility of introducing a multi-currency payment system for welfare recipients? Part cash, part goods/vouchers to make sure a certain percentage of payment is used for food, clothing, rent, etc. If we could make sure that payments were spent properly, I'd probably even support...

This is why I support such things as dole diaries, work for the dole etc. We are lucky enough to live in a country where there is a social welfare system, and think it's only fair that those wishing to receive benefits should prove that they are making an effort to actively change their...

It's Spanish for "The Nino".

If you're out there cobber... read your PMs please.

Monks ARE grouse, especially the Belgian ones that brew the extra strong beer.

Worse than John Brumby? Being in opposition doesn't just mean opposing everything the ruling government does and says, just as having an argument isn't just saying "no it isn't". Yes it is.... No it isn't...

I don't think my German skills are good enough anymore to carry out a conversation or make an enquiry over the phone to strangers, so maybe the phone idea is a VERY last resort. The idea of writing to local papers and other local sources is a good one, it'd never occurred to me either. For...

Also, unless you have seen documentation, or in some other way been able to verify the source, you can't really vouch for its authenticity. Looks like a long process ahead...

My grandfather (on the side I'm attempting to research) was born in 1907 which make him too young to have served in WW1, and I'm not sure how WW2 records would document armed service for Germany given that our wartime history has been documented as being so shameful. He may even have served in...

I might also add, LL, that having some understanding of German history is helpful. Some sites do give a brief run-down on stuff like changing state borders, mass migrations, significant German populations in other countries. As you probably know, it was far from a settled place (politically)...

Re: Re: Family history www.rootsweb.com and www.ancestry.com are two sites where you can type details into a search engine and it does relate mostly to pre-1850 so if you can find a link between your data and theirs, it could be very helpful. I've found plenty there with my surname, but the...

Thanks for the suggestions so far - Danni, any info you could get would be great. SF - I have tried the familysearch site, but like ancestry.com & rootsweb they rely mainly on records from the US & UK, with European input being mainly the traced ancestors of people who later migrated to the...

Over the last couple of weeks I've tried getting a bit of a start on exploring my family history. Being a first-generation migrant, with my ancestors based in Europe, things haven't been easy to find as most genealogy sites are very American-centric. Any German sites I've found have mainly...

Wouldn't it be funny though if people did start taking their rubbish to the tip every week/fortnight/month, and the garbos would only be employed to clean street bins in shopping areas and the like. They could work part time and shove their non-existent public holidays up their own arses...

By the way, the strike didn't inconvenience me so much personally. I can get rid of my rubbish at work, and when I used to live alone I put the bin out maybe once a month. I recycle as much as I can and don't produce a lot of rubbish. And having worked labouring jobs for several years...

Sure, people have the right to strike, but lets not forget who is paying their wages. The employer should have just as much right to hire replacement labour during the dispute. Wonder what would have happened had the council decided to hire non-union labour to get the job done. If a strike is...

I'm sure you wouldn't be quite as sympathetic if your suburb had street bins overflowing, and residential bins sitting on nature strips for a week because of a group of employees who believe they should get three more paid holidays than everyone else. You may talk of their right to strike...

But back to the point of why I actually posted this. :o How do we fare for public holidays in relation to other states and countries? Personally I think the three holidays the strike was about, were the most frivolous excuses for holidays, and were rightly abolished by the previous State...

If it's over, in whose favour was it resolved? My street in Yarraville is the only street that still has all its bins out... it seems that this street is in some sort of twilight zone where neither of the local papers ever get delivered. I was out walking on Friday night and nicked papers...

The City of Maribyrnong in Melbourne's west, has in the last fortnight suffered from industrial action by the municipal rubbish collectors. The dispute is over three days paid leave which the council wants to withdraw in the EBA currently being negotiated. The three days in question are...

There was a also campaign a few years ago by western suburbs residents, to get all of the then-St.Albans line into the reach of Zone 1, because the start of Zone 2 was closer (in km and in terms of stations from the city) on this line than any other. If Liberal gets elected, they have...

Melbourne's middle-west is almost an outer west, due to a lack of rail facilities. Different areas like Braybrook, Maidstone, Brooklyn, Maribyrnong, Avondale Heights and North Sunshine are all within about 10-12km of the CBD but are a hard slog because they require a few interchanges between...

Yes, and it may require a bit of infrastructure expenditure, so is he going to do it, or will he just commit $550 million for a VFT rail project that saves 7 minutes :rolleyes: on a trip to Geelong or Ballarat that serves a comparatively smaller portion of the population? Basically his...

I had to spend a day in Sydney a few weeks back and it was boring as ****.

If you go into the water you're in THEIR territory. That doesn't matter if you're talking about sharks, crocs, jellyfish, stingrays whatever. "Kill the bastards cos I wanna go for a swim" seems a bit harsh, don't you think?

Where I work, the union comes across as lazy and inept. In 7 months, I have not been approached even once to join the union, nor have many other employees. Most don't even know who the warehouse union rep is. Everyone in the warehouse was offered individual contracts to sign, and the union...

You'll never collect. :p

I think most objective Liberal-aligned voters even see Bolt as a bit of a stirrer. Take his pieces with a grain of salt. It's probably fair to say that when arguing a point objectively, you concede some minor ground when the opposing side has a valid point... that's just to show you're...

Maybe the world is just one big mother****er of an ant farm!

I'm also quite interested in local history, Sunshine, Footscray and even Coburg where I spent some time living a few years ago. I especially like comparing old photographs of sites to how they look now, it's always fascinated me the way that a paddock from 50 years ago could be a main street...