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West aus / In attempt to make a long story short, I was homeschooled by my abusive mother from grades 1-10. Around 14/year 10 she just kind of stopped making me do school work, and because she was more abusive when doing school work I made 0 push to keep going, having no clue it would effect my future, instead just trying to survive in the moment. I am now 18, almost 19 and trying to move out because she is still abusive. My mother told me that she was told by the homeschooling people that I need to complete GED TAFE certs I, II, and III to have equivalency of high school. I have done I and II but since I turned 18 (mother doesn't have a job) centrelink payments went down a lot and child support payments stopped (father is not in the picture at all). So now I can't afford to do III. This has lead me to struggle to find a job because I didn't graduate and they assume I dropped out, so I applied for centrelink Job Seekers payments. They got approved today which I thought was great news. However I'm facing two complications; The centrelink app asked me for a "report". I filled in my time volunteering (logic being "it is still an employment") and set the payment from work as 0. (Mother said I wasn't supposed to fill it in unless it's a real, paying job, but I tend to take whatever she says with a lot of salt due to past experiences where she blatantly lied to me.) However the big problem, when filling this out it asked if I met my "job plan requirements". I don't have a job plan, they never prompted me to set one up, I don't even know where to start setting one up, I was also in a rush to fill in this report because it said it was due two days ago and I was worried if I didn't that they wouldn't pay me. So I marked it "No" with the logic of "I don't have a job plan requirement to meet". It then said I wouldn't be paid because I didn't meet my requirements, but the home screen of the app still says I will be paid X amount in 2 days. Problem 2; on a seperate part of the app (if i click on "claims", it doesn't show on the home screen) it says I need to upload a proof of year 12 or equivalent document (which I obviously don't have). I was very careful to fill out the payment request properly because it's my only way out of this house and into an okay-ish life, so I know it never asked for a proof of year 12, I don't think it ever even asked me what level of school I completed, but if it did I would have put cert II. If I don't upload this document will I also not be paid? Do you have to complete high school to get benefits? How am I supposed to pay to complete school if I'm not allowed payments? I have no one to turn to to ask for help, and I'm terrified of ending up homeless because I live in a very dangerous suburb and as a young woman already get cat-called minimum 4 times on my way to and from work, I know sleeping on the street with no protection would lead to something worse happening. I feel so stuck with no where to turn. I literally have $2.55 to my name and if these things mean the government won't help me then I'm completely f-cked.

Hey folks Wanna know if I can work as a freelancer during my studies on subclass 500 student visa. I would like to change my payment bank account from an Indian one to an Australian one. This work is gonna be seperate from a part time job so, I want to understand if there can be any potential problems with my visa conditions.

What are some great spots to go diving in Aus that are lesser known but maybe better than the Great Barrier Reef?

Hi, is there anywhere I can find a report about a recent power outage I had? The outage was on Ausgrid's website (with information like severity level and estimated restore time) when it happened, but now that it's over, I don't know if it's still on the website anymore. I was wondering if they would follow up with an investigation and a report. I just wanted to get to the bottom of it and understand what went wrong. Thanks a lot!

Someone told me this is true because…due to the high yeast content it can be used to make grog. Not sure if this is legit or just urban myth lol

Hey so I’m in the US (thoughts and prayers please) and my wife and I were streaming nine to watch MAFS and there is a category called pedestrian television.

Is this a standard term? Or like just some marketing thing? The shows in the category don’t seem to have much in common with each other

Do we live in Game of Thrones times?

Hi

We’re currently driving around remote areas in Queensland. We have an eSIM from andalu, which worked just fine in the other areas (east coast and some of the other remote areas). Now we’re close to Winton and it doesn’t seem to work here.

We can’t get a Telstra or Boost eSIM, since we can’t download their apps. Is there another provider, that’s would have connection out here?

My new job (at a startup) wants to pay me on the 1st and 16th of every month. (1-15 pay on 16th and 16-30/31 on the 1st).

So every payday will be a different day of the week, and if those dates fall on a weekend it will processed the next business day.

Is this normal? Ive never had this at any job before and don’t even know how to structure all my financial responsibilities around this.

I live paycheck to paycheck ☹️

Im full time perm in wa, aus.

I had previous experiences where buyers wouldn't show up at all, and my actual street very short, only 10 houses (5 on both sides).

So I don't feel comfortable giving out my exact street number or even my street name. E.g. last year, a buyer wanted to meet me at 10pm at my house. I gave him the exact address and luckily he arrived at 10.30pm, but I did worry so much when he didn't show up early.

So this time, I gave the street name adjacent to my street. I live on the corner, so you could say my house is on that street too lol. For example, I said "apple street", which has about 30 houses on that street, so it's much longer.

But then the buyer arrived in this huge, lifted 4wd including a huge trailer, so you can imagine it looks like a hassle to just turn corners or drive around etc.

Anyway, i saw the buyer drove past my house and then turned onto the adjacent street, and then message me for the exact address. And then I messaged and said, "corner apple street and orange street". And then he had to drive to the end of the road of apple street and then drive around the whole block, to get to my house again, which he already passed on the way to apple street.

I feel so bad. Next time, do I just say "corner apple street and orange street"?

Edit: next time I'll say "corner apple street and orange street" so that way the buyer's car will literally be facing towards my house, since I literally live on corner apple street and orange street.

Edit 2: I think I'm the only one still hung up on this. My parents aren't thinking about it anymore and I'm sure the buyer stopped thinking about it as soon as they picked up the item. So I should just let it go.

I don't like my brother's second wife because she is judgemental.

They live interstate and when I visited them a few years ago she started ranting at me about my situation after a night out. I don't complain to her for her to reach a boiling point to go off at me. It was uncalled for. She half-heartedly apologised then downplay how depressed I feel in general and kept on one-upping her circumstances with mine.

She would involve herself and complain about things about me that is none of her concern.

I saw her a few weeks ago after a year and I felt exhausted. I feel sad that I won't get to see my niece often. She will be raised with her side of the family and I already feel that she's going to turn her into a snob towards my side of the family.

Hi, i want to ask, if there any of you working in australia? Im willing to explore my career opportunity there, i feel i still lacking of information, so far after asking GPT some question it recommend me to take skilled migration visa with sub class 190 and 482, the question that come to my mind was :

•if i get sponsored visa i only could work for my sponsored company, (its a bit terrifying tbh because i dont know the work culture there and about the layoff there) •is it hard to get job offer and sponsored visa?

I think thats all question come to my mind, any information and insight is very helpfull, have a nice day

There's his story about crypto.com accidently refunding $10.5 million to an Australian lady that randomly goes viral every few months. She didn't report the mistake. Instead, she bought a $1.35M property in Craigieburn, Melbourne, high-end cars, and sent money overseas. Once Crypto.com noticed they launched a lawsuit, she tried to flee the country, and, well… let’s just say it didn’t end well for her.

In her scenario, what would you have done?

Source - https://techiegamers.com/crypto-com-mistake-australian-woman/

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Here in Melbourne. Early 40s. Been out to gym and got a coffee and arrived back home

What are you all doing?

What’s your. favourite musical moment? I’ll go first. I was pottering about this morning, and Nutbush City limits came on. I found myself smiling , and flooded with great memories of my first school dance. My other moment was Australia winning the America’s cup and the strains of Men at work’s I come from a land down under

I've been using sunscreen everyday on vulnerable places like face and back of neck but it's doing a number on my skin. It's hard to wash off.. why is it so water resistant when I'm not swimming!

Can anyone recommend good brands/types of sunscreen for everyday use mostly for face that's not so pore clogging and easy to wash off?

For my casual job at Coles my boss asks me every Monday what days I’m available to work during the week. I replied saying Monday, Wednesday and Sunday. As I get the roster for the week I get rostered on the Monday and Wednesday.

Today (Saturday) I get a text from him if I can work tomorrow (Sunday) but since then I have made plans so I apologise to him and say I’m unavailable. His response is “you said you were available.”

Surely I didn’t need to keep my Sunday ‘free’ for a potential shift that I may or may not have received right? Or am I in the wrong here?

A pack of cigarettes is like $50 here. I don't know how anyone can afford that so consistently?

So I'm guessing they're rich?

But also has anyone noticed how common smoking seems here? From vaping to cigs?

Wrong answers only 🐒

Hi everyone!

I'm sending a surprise gift to my boyfriend for Valentine's Day to his P.O. box (sorry if that's not the right term. I’m not from Australia) since he's usually not at home. The post office address he gave me (copied from his post office app) looks like this:

Parcel Collect 11111 22222

Shop 1 Creek Road

MOUNT GRAVATT EAST QLD 4122

When entering it for an online order, I had to fill in: Address, Suburb, State/Territory, and Postcode. I entered:

• Address: Parcel Collect 11111 22222 Shop 1 Creek Road
• Suburb: Mount Gravatt
• State/Territory: Queensland (dropdown option, can't manually type)
• Postcode: 4122

But the system formatted it as:

Parcel Collect 11111 22222 Shop 1 738 Creek Road

Mount Gravatt

QLD

4122

Australia

In my country, we usually use commas when writing addresses. Should I have added them? Also, is "Queensland" fine, or should I be worried that "East" is missing? I just want to make sure the package gets to him!

Thanks so much for any help, and sorry if this is a basic question. I'm just a bit paranoid about it getting lost. 😊

I’m a British passport holder and currently on a TSS 482 visa in Australia. Do I need any further documents to fly to Japan?

Saw a post stating that Australia has very high rental. The minimum wage is $24.10 per hour or $915.8 per week and $3663.20 for basically a month. And saw the cost of living for single person is around $1700 (not sure per fortnight of per month). Can someone clarify this. Maybe I am wrong, I just want an estimation figure.

Hi everyone, so I’m in my thirties (male) and really have no to minimal experience with dating, relationships and everything that comes with the territory.

I’ve been trying out dating apps lately, and seem to get a decent amount of matches, and have been on 5 dates. However, the vast majority will match and just ignore me, or if they do respond the conversation just dies out of nowhere. I even had one woman reach out after a few weeks, and then just ignore my response. So basically I’m pulling the pin on online dating.

My concern is, is it even possible to find decent, compatible people in my age bracket now. The whole online dating experience has really left a bad taste in my mouth. Seems extremely superficial, I feel mentally exhausted by all the ‘6ft+’, ‘mullet and mo + tattoos’, ‘have a 4WD’ type profiles.

Personally, I’m more of a sporty type, go to the gym a lot, compete etc. I don’t drink or do drugs so the club/festival and party scene has never been for me.

I’m just not too sure where to actually meet people. Everyone around where I live is in a relationship seemingly. Everything has a weird social media undercurrent that seems to be fuelling it. My friends are all married and interstate, running out of ideas here?

sort of a crude question but I just arrived in Australia and had a question for the Aussies, If cigarette brands had an olympics, as in every country representing their local cigarette, what would Australia choose ?

ie: a cigarette an Australian would choose to take around the world to represent the country ?