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Centrelink has backflipped after forcing a Dandenong disability pensioner with “incomplete quadriplegia” onto JobSeeker.
After a two month fight, the relieved 60-year-old woman was restored onto the disability support pension with back-pay.
After struggling on the less-generous JobSeeker payment, she can now pay her pile of unpaid bills as well as the many medical expenses for herself and her grandchildren.
And gone is the anxiety of being possibly forced to apply for jobs despite suffering a litany of health issues and barely able to walk.
“It’s been an emotional rollercoaster,” the pensioner says.
“Luckily I’m strong enough not to let this happen to me.
A Dandenong disabled pensioner with “incomplete quadriplegia” has been reduced to despair after being forced onto JobSeeker.
Suffering a litany of health issues and barely able to walk, the 60-year-old had been on the disability support pension for more than a decade.
Things changed after she was given custody of her grandchildren in 2020.
She received a top-up carers’ payment during that time – which appears to have led to her being taken off the DSP.
Out of the blue in March 2021, Centrelink declared she was no longer eligible for the pension.
She was instead placed on the less-generous JobSeeker payment and possibly required to look for jobs.
Melbourneâs next generation trams could be trackless with rubber wheels
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Rubber wheels. Electric batteries. No overhead wires. This could be the future for Melbourneâs trams.
By 2025, brand-new trams will be cruising through Melbourneâs streets, thanks to a $1.5 billion Andrews government injection to fund 100 ânext-generation tramsâ. Nimble, low-floor and energy-efficient, the new vehicles will replace lumbering A and Z-Class trams built in the 1970s and 1980s.
Number 67 tram on Swanston Street in Melbourneâs CBD.
Credit:Chris Hopkins
Two manufacturers have been shortlisted to design and build the trams: French rail manufacturer Alstom â which acquired former tram manufacturer Bombardier â and a joint venture comprising Spanish rail maker CAF and UGL.
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