Coronavirus - Australia
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@chimoaus I helped build MyGov and worked at DHS some years back. I'll try to find out what I can and get back to you.
Turn it off and turn it on again.
I remain amazed how often that works in IT.
@chimoaus - there's no known reason. It should be working if you're accessing it through MyGov. See here:
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/subjects/affected-coronavirus-covid-19/if-you-need-payment-coronavirus-covid-19/how-register-your-intention-claim-centrelink-payment-coronavirus-covid-19just confirmed I can access centrelink through MyGov so if it's not working for you, contact the help desk. Just make sure your phone is completely charged first. I should imagine wait times are horrendous right now.
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@antipodean Thanks for your help, I am going through a PC Browser, not my phone. Tried both Chrome and Edge, cleared cache. Got this error from Edge. Same error on phone.
I lodged my intent to claim over a week ago.
Appears to be a few people with similar issues here.
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Just a thought, if your employer qualifies for the JobKeeper, what is stopping them asking you to come into work and working hours that equal $1500. So say you were casual and only did 20 hours a fortnight for $600. Your boss now gets $1500 a fortnight to keep you on. What is stopping them asking you to work 50 hours a fortnight that equals $1500. Alternatively can the casual employee refuse to come into work and still get the $1500?
Also I wonder how many employers will ask staff to come in and do filing, stock takes, cleaning etc as they are not paying you that first $1500.
Guess it depends on what sort of boss you have and if your employer is still operating at all.
This doesn't impact me at all but I imagine there are plenty who think they are just going to sit on the couch when in theory their boss could ask them to come in and do something.
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@chimoaus said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Just a thought, if your employer qualifies for the JobKeeper, what is stopping them asking you to come into work and working hours that equal $1500. So say you were casual and only did 20 hours a fortnight for $600. Your boss now gets $1500 a fortnight to keep you on. What is stopping them asking you to work 50 hours a fortnight that equals $1500. Alternatively can the casual employee refuse to come into work and still get the $1500?
Also I wonder how many employers will ask staff to come in and do filing, stock takes, cleaning etc as they are not paying you that first $1500.
Guess it depends on what sort of boss you have and if your employer is still operating at all.
welcome to the world of all employers this week
add in considerations of payroll on-costs if they work, the cash flow of doing this until you get reimbursed in a month, there are so many things for us to wrap our head around
and you are supposed to work for it if you are able, this is a reimbursement to employers for wages. unless people can't work, and then it's an allowance. as i said, it's a fucking nightmare.
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@mariner4life I feel for you, tough spot to be in. The tricky one is keeping employees happy
Jane - Casual, works 20 hours a fortnight, normal pay $600, now $1500 - Employer saves $600
Bob - Casual, works 40 hours a fortnight, normal pay $1200, now $1500 - Employer saves $1200
Karen - Full Time, works 80 hours a fortnight, normal pay $2400, stays $2400 - Employer saves $1500Jane is cheering because for no extra work she pockets an extra $900 a fortnight. Bob is happy to get an extra $300 for nothing but annoyed he has to work twice the hours of Jane for the same money. Karen is upset she gets no benefit and is annoyed at her boss for pocketing the $1500 and not passing on any to her.
Of course other considerations would come into play like tax, super, leave etc etc. But you can see how complex it will get and trying to keep everyone happy will be a challenge.
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Saw that my bank was offering a 2.33% fixed rate for 3 years to eligible customers - generally anyone with household income over a certain size, and a mortgage over a certain size with suitable LVR.
Rang them up and said "look that rate sounds awesome, but I can't be arsed doing the paperwork" so she reviewed our variable rate on the spot and cut it by .22% instead.
Didn't need paperwork either way, but I have bad memories of being on fixed loans and watching the market drop - even though it doesn't really have anywhere to move right now
So the wife hadn't forwarded her 1-year-old car's insurance premium documents which she claims she never saw (search "Youi" in your gmail, dear oh snap there it is!)
The amount prompted me to ring the insurer for a friendly chat about our longstanding relationship and 4 separate policies.
$465 discount later, I think I did alright. Only one they wouldn't budge on is building insurance - understandable given the price of everything bricks and mortar went up after the fires.
The point of these 2 posts: sitting around the house and NOT being interrupted by shitwits gives me free time to think about my money.
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@NTA I did this on Sunday I got an email from Youi about wifes car being due, it looked a little high. I spoke to a really nice bloke and I saved 800 over all 4 of our policies. Part of me is happy to save the money, the other part is asking why I was paying the higher price in the first place. But yes I love Youi because the call centre staff are based in Australia and they always answer quickly and are super helpful.
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA I've found youi to be everything they claim to be when it comes to customer service. Very impressive.
@chimoaus said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA I did this on Sunday I got an email from Youi about wifes car being due, it looked a little high. I spoke to a really nice bloke and I saved 800 over all 4 of our policies. Part of me is happy to save the money, the other part is asking why I was paying the higher price in the first place. But yes I love Youi because the call centre staff are based in Australia and they always answer quickly and are super helpful.
Have been with them for getting close to 10 years I think - 2 different houses (one of which flooded), and maybe 4 or 5 different cars. Never been anything but top notch.
However, as @taniwharugby said when I asked about the house flood: we fit their white, middle-aged, financially stable nuclear family demographic to a tee.
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Rumours going around that Ruby Princess offload was allegedly at the direction of Alex Hawke, a Federal MP who allegedly had friends on the boat. Nothing will come of it, but 10% of cases of COVID in Australia are related to this boat.
Yeah that absolutely won't be brought up ever again once the election cycle restarts, absolutely not...
The Coalition will hurt from this for a long time.
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@shark said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Where was this ship docked and when was it offloaded? My mates and I went for a big walk early Saturday the 14th and walked past a cruise ship moored up at Circular Quay I'd say around 8am which was being offloaded!
This one was in Wellington on the 14th. Had the whole shipload wandering freely around town (before any restrictions). There was a positive test come through afterwards and tracing led to a warning for a group that were on a guided tour of Te Papa with the infected.
Luckily the virus does not appear to have spread through the ship at all at that point based on the lack of cases in Welly associated with it.
I went to Te Papa that day, but was very careful to give the cruise tourists a wide berth. Those things are floating petri dishes.
Sounds like it transmitted and spread while sailing to Sydney.
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See the story that came out about Australians that ignored Scomo and went on holiday anyway.
"About 16,000 Australian citizens chose to fly overseas between March 19 and 30, despite stern instructions on March 18 to 'not travel abroad'.
Even after an official ban on overseas travel began on March 24, 3,800 Australians left the country"
Now the Govt is paying for them all to stay in hotels for two weeks when they come back.
Question I guess is why were the airports open and why were passengers even allowed to leave once the ban came into place?
I guess the other thing we don't know is were they all going on holiday?
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@NTA Sorry have to put an asterisk next to Australia's figures. You're not Belarus, but you're hardly in total lockdown and there is plenty of evidence of the no more than 2 rule being flouted. Victoria says its only testing cases with fever or a cough AND a risk factor. So how come you graph is tracking better than countries that have done more?
Really hope the figures are accurate but something doesn't add up to me.
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@dogmeat Pretty sure the biggest factor is Australia did not have high community spread already. So the majority of cases came from overseas and hopefully the majority of them isolated preventing the spread. The rest of the country is doing enough to keep the spread number under 1 so the spread is slowing and new cases are dropping.
Not everyone needs to follow the rules, if enough do it the spread will slow.
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Down to 91 new cases in NSW today, that's the first sub-100 number we've had in more than two weeks. In her presser the Chief Medico said rates of testing were still high, so it looks like it could be a reliable figure.
It seems with every passing day it's looking more likely we will avoid a US/Europe style medical catastrophe. Just the economic one to worry about, then...
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@barbarian said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Down to 91 new cases in NSW today, that's the first sub-100 number we've had in more than two weeks. In her presser the Chief Medico said rates of testing were still high, so it looks like it could be a reliable figure.
It seems with every passing day it's looking more likely we will avoid a US/Europe style medical catastrophe. Just the economic one to worry about, then...
If you avoid anywhere near the figures from the world's covid19 hotspots I think you can consider yourselves fortunate. The sooner we can all get back to work the better