Guest guest Posted August 10, 2000 Report Share Posted August 10, 2000 Anne, Your pictures did not come through on my computer (attach them). P.S. in you private email to me you spelled meters - metres. You Aussies have a terrible time with spelling, all of these come up wrong on my spell checker programme colour metre I'm slow today, can't think of the rest. To hot today, we are having thundershowers every evening, with really bad lightning. Two or three days ago a man was killed by lightning about 15 miles from us. Power outages everywhere. Glad you are over your cold. Take care, Bill and Charlotte Pledger wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 10, 2000 Report Share Posted August 10, 2000 Anne, In light of reading this, I'd love to know what wages are like in Oz. What, for example, is minimum wage? What does someone working in a fast food restaurant earn per hour - and what is the take home pay? If I remember correctly, when my sister lived in Australia, she paid a lot more in taxes - for the health insurance etc. - than we do in the States. Hugs, and thanks for all the info... Nan Day care Aussie style Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2000 Report Share Posted August 11, 2000 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart. Helen Keller Hi Nan An average wage here would be about A$600 per week. Fast food workers it would depend on age. I don't now what a minimum wage would be. I will see if I can find any info on this. Not being wage earners (both on pensions carer and disability) one gets out of touch. We have a free medical health cover for all. This gives you free admission to public hospitals, Government paid for public health. If you want private health cover for private hospitals as we have, we pay $167 per month to cover everything. This is not cheap if on a pension, but we feel it is necesary for ensured fast admission, if not a life threatening thing. You would get this free anyway for an emergency in a public hospital. Our combined pension is $250 per week. Then we get a $120 payment $60 each for for studying per week. This is not a loan, it is a payment. You only pay this back after 5 years if you get a job and earn over $40,000 per year. So our income would be for the two of us - $350 per week. We also get $200 per year to help pay for study books. The reason daycare is so cheap is that they expect people to be on pensions only and the Goverment heavily subsidises them. It is an attempt to keep people out of nursing homes which are also charged at below pension rates. But of course cost more per patient than day care. Tax payment I would have to check to as we don't pay any on our low income. I will try and find out and get back to you on that. Hugs from Anne, In light of reading this, I'd love to know what wages are like in Oz. What, for example, is minimum wage? What does someone working in a fast food restaurant earn per hour - and what is the take home pay? If I remember correctly, when my sister lived in Australia, she paid a lot more in taxes - for the health insurance etc. - than we do in the States. Hugs, and thanks for all the info... Nan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2000 Report Share Posted August 11, 2000 Hi Bill: In Canada - metres is a measurement of length. A meter is an instrument that measures - i.e. a gas meter or electric meter. This English language is bad enough, we have to be able to tell the difference sometimes. Keep on teasing Anne - I think she loves it. (Ont.Can.) Werre wrote: Anne, Your pictures did not come through on my computer (attach them). P.S. in you private email to me you spelled meters - metres. You Aussies have a terrible time with spelling, all of these come up wrong on my spell checker programme colour metre I'm slow today, can't think of the rest. To hot today, we are having thundershowers every evening, with really bad lightning. Two or three days ago a man was killed by lightning about 15 miles from us. Power outages everywhere. Glad you are over your cold. Take care, Bill and Charlotte Pledger wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 11, 2000 Report Share Posted August 11, 2000 , " owyergoinmate " ) That's " How are you " in the USA Anne, Fordy and (and another Aussie) all started this back in April 1999 and have a lot of fun with it. That was soon after I (and Fordy) came on the list. Sometime I will dig up some of Fordy's better emails and repost them. He has not been up to writing lately and only writes sporadically. Yes, many of us enjoy cutting up on the list. (Hope " cutting up " is a term known to all of you - basically it is joking around). One of these days I am going to do my best to get to Aussieland to see both of them. I think it is cheaper to fly there, than to ship something there (or here from there). Bloody awful!!! Unfortunately, Charlotte cannot travel much any more. Here in the USA we determine which meter from the context of the sentence, not the spelling. However, we also have our slang differences - if you get a person from Brooklyn, New York talking to a person from Monroe, Louisianna and both grew up where they were born - they may need an interpreter also. ) Take care, Bill and Charlotte --------------------------------------------------------------- Riding wrote: > Hi Bill: In Canada - metres is a measurement of length. A meter is an > instrument that measures - i.e. a gas meter or electric meter. This English > language is bad enough, we have to be able to tell the difference sometimes. > Keep on teasing Anne - I think she loves it. (Ont.Can.) > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2000 Report Share Posted August 12, 2000 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart. Helen Keller Hi Bill There weren't any pictures, that's why you didn't get any. The paperwork (reams) doesn't contain any. I can say though that it is a very nice CENTRE. Made to look very homely. Lots of pictures on the walls. aquarium, nicely laid tables with cloth and flowers on each etc. They try to make it look like a normal home and not institutional. Yes we measure in metres, but have elctricity meters ect. So use different spellings. Of course you could change your spell checker to American/ English!!!! That's how I have mine set. My study comes from American text books. So I have to switch spellings all the time from one to another!! American spelling for some things. When I am hust writting though I go on auto and still write in English!! I am sorry to hear that you are having bad storms. Your fires are awful too in Idoho? Yesterday 79 Aussie firefighters left Aussie to come and help you out, with fire control contingencies etc. Hope thet can help and also give some of your firemen that must be exhausted a break. Love to both from Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 12, 2000 Report Share Posted August 12, 2000 Hi Same here with the spellings. Yes I do love it too. No better medicine than laughter!! ) The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor touched but are felt in the heart. Helen Keller Re: Day care Aussie style Hi Bill: In Canada - metres is a measurement of length. A meter is an instrument that measures - i.e. a gas meter or electric meter. This English language is bad enough, we have to be able to tell the difference sometimes. Keep on teasing Anne - I think she loves it. (Ont.Can.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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