Re: OT [Sydney] Ticketing - was Light Rail into the CBD?

["a n d R e w ;" <rods42@hotmail.com>]

"Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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> a n d R e w ; <rods42@hotmail.com> wrote in article
> <9f56m4$3sr$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
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> > The last time I looked, you have to be willing to accept any
job
> > with up to 90 mins travel time each way in order to keep on
> > receiving a Centrelink payment (eg. if you were offered a
job
> > with 80 mins travel time and refused it because it would
take
> > too long to travel, you would get penalised by Centrelink).
>
> When I was on unemployment last year and I asked the fellows
down at
> Centrelink about this, they said that the 90 minutes was just
a 'guideline'
> issued by the Department of Social Security and that there
really was no
> fixed guide - the regulations (or legislation, as may be the
case) merely
> says 'reasonable distance' - a manager there said that
'reasonable' was
> defined as 'if there's anybody in your neighbourhood who
travels a certain
> distance to work, then you should be able to do that too.'
>
> They couldn't be specific as to what 'reasonable distance' was
in my case,
> and I wasn't about to knock on 200 doors in my neighbourhood
to ask 'So
> mate, where abouts do you work?'
>
> I wonder how this rule applies to people who have poor access
to public
> transport - someone has a car and drives 90 minutes to work;
an unemployed
> person without a car has to catch a bus or train which takes
150 minutes -
> is he still expected to travel the same distance?

Ha! Yeah, just tell them the only transport you can access is a
bicycle! I think Centrelink is full of these guidelines which
can easily be changed for different circumstances.

ANDREW