arbilp3 @ arbilp3 @aussie.zone

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I was pretty surprised too because Australia is usually always included in all their rankings.

Yes, I was pretty surprised too because Australia is usually always included in all their rankings. They say:

This graphic ranks countries by average monthly earnings adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), using data from the International Labor Organization. Rather than comparing salaries on paper, the ranking measures how much goods and services workers can actually afford after accounting for local prices.

The results show that high nominal wages do not always translate into stronger purchasing power. In some countries, expensive housing and consumer costs significantly reduce how far incomes go, while others combine relatively high wages with lower living costs.

😂 Never heard that insult before!

Qld? Outside of major population areas, we have buckley's here.

People who are functionally illiterate can be taken advantage of more easily (as if it wasn't already bad enough for everyone with the amount of scamming that takes place in our society). People who can't read can still function in society but their choices are limited and their ability to earn a decent income is reduced in general. For some, it might mean not being able to get stable employment at all. I imagine that their independence is also affected because they have to depend on others to read official communications and so on which wouldn't help their self-esteem. For us to allow young people to leave school without at least basic literacy and numeracy is terrible imo.

I agree with what you say but still maintain that regional areas can and should be developed intelligently. Having enormous built-up cities can be seen as a positive but also has major downsides in the case of war, major facility breakdown, or stoppage of supply (as could happen if transport breaks down due to lack of fuel). That would be a lot of people close together in a state of crisis. We can only hope that doesn't come to pass.

Ok, that was his choice. Unless you live in the tropics (are you in Australia?) you have a right to have glass on your windows for insulation and security reasons. What does your real estate manager say?

What! You have no glass on 2 windows?

Wll said!

This is a sad situation for Australia on many accounts. It would help if more employment was made available in regional areas where there is still space and prices for housing are relatively affordable.

Your wife is not being difficult. Women generally do feel the cold more than men. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/women-might-feel-the-cold-more-than-men-heres-why/101135250

(I summarised the following explanation from Quora and it sounds pretty accurate)

The main reason most people think is to prevent a revolt at the ballot box by upper-middle class voters.

The first non-govt large scale school system in Australia was set up by the Catholic Church. Many of Australia’s earliest colonists were Irish-Catholic and poor and so the Church set up a school system for them.

When the first public school system was set up, it started by appropriating a large number of Catholic schools. The Catholic school system survived, however, and has remained powerful in Australia.

In the past, the main purpose of governments providing funds to private schools wasn’t to keep the Catholic schools open, but rather to fund an Anglican equivalent for the children of English settlers - particularly out of fear that the Irish-Australians might have an advantage over them. Catholic vs Protestant factionalism is largely dead in modern Australia, but our current school funding system owes a great deal to it.

Nowadays, whenever politicians start pointing out that it is a bit crazy that the states pay for public education but the federal government also gives large grants to private schools, they encounter massive opposition. The last time this was suggested, many upper-middle class parents spoke out loudly, saying they were concerned that the funding to their children’s schools was the “only thing they got back” from the large amounts of tax they paid. They are very wrong about this, but it seems to be a widely held belief.

So, the system of using public money to support private education in Australia started for historical reasons that are no longer relevant, but continues because a powerful bloc of voters more-or-less demands it do so.

I don't know the details, but if

“The Greens MPs supported the part of the motion that acknowledged the NCAT findings that Mark Latham engaged in unlawful homosexual vilification and sexual harassment of Alex Greenwich, and the real harms that this has caused in our workplace and the community. And we supported a final, amended motion that called out Mark Latham’s actions.”

then could Mr Greenwich's complaints be just attention seeking?

There are public selective high schools in all Australian states and there's also other specialised ones, see https://www.australianschoolsdirectory.com.au/

Special needs schools have been thought to not be beneficial for children. I am not arguing for or against.

Absolutely.

🤣 🤣 🤣 Great suggestion! Can you imagine the Iranian Lego segment on this?

That was my first reaction too. You've got to be kidding!

Norway taxes gas profits at 78% and so has built an enormous wealth fund over 30 years on the back of it. Australia's equivalent tax generates $2 billion a year. The same resource, taxed very differently and guess who's missing out?

Thank you for that z_g. I am not with the mainstream social media so I could not link.

What are you doing about what you know so well?

Thank you for having a look.

The trouble with education spending in this country is that the govt subsidises the already wealthy schools that charge a mint as well as public schools in the poorest areas. This obviously skews in favour of the rich and middle-level schools while the public schools, which mostly have the most challenging teaching and learning situations, are not funded as they should be. The problem is worsened when parents choose private or Catholic schools for their kids in fear of the lacks of public education (unless the public school is in a middle-class area and then the school is better supported by the community) making the situation worse. Surprisingly, it's been found that when it comes to academic results public schools punch above their weight. Nevertheless, the funding model is very flawed and we should keep demanding better funding for our public schools.