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[Rods2]

The world's richest woman has told Australians that they need to smoke, drink and socialize less and work harder.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9510025/Gina-Rinehart-attacks-jealous-poor.html

Is she right?

If Australia has a welfare system anything like the UK than I suspect that this applies to at least 10% of their working population who prefer not to work and are quite happy with their dole / black market funded lifestyle, who are jealous of anybody with more money than themselves. But, this clearly does not apply to many hard working people, who have s comfortable lifestyles or weathy people with successful businesses they have created through skill, sweat and toil.

[mantahatch]

If the comments had come from someone who had earnt their fortune then I might take some interest. But this woman was born with a silver spoon n her loud mouth, and probably has never done a real days work in her life. Daddy left her billions, my heart bleeds for her. If I was Australian in Australia think I would probably be on a go slow right now.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I lived in Australia for a bit in the late 90's and from what I remember their welfare system was very similar to the UK's, and if I remember rightly it was even more generous than ours.  I can remember chatting to a bunch of surfing lads on a beach and was shocked to find out that they were all on the dole and were getting about double what they would have here in Britain! 

At the time it seemed that there were loads of youngsters hanging around on the beaches while claiming benefits.  They're known as 'Dole Bludgers', and very similarly ordinary hard working Aussies get very angry about them!! 

Another shocker was when I went into an Bottle Shop in rural Western Australia, grabbed a slab of beers and a box of wine and took them to the checkout. There was a conversation with the Checkout Girl that went something like this:-

CG: Sorry I can't sell you those!
TH: Whynot? I'm over 18!
CG: It's Thursday!
TH: Eh? What's that got to do with anything??
CG: (Looking abit embarrassed) I'll get the manager...

The manager then came over and quietly explained that they weren't allowed to sell alcohol on a Thursday as it was when the dole cheques were issued and the Aborigines would blow it all on booze!!    So I had a dry Thursday night!!    I bet the Bottle Shop was busy on a Friday though!! 

[cem_devecioglu]

I lived in Australia for a bit in the late 90's and from what I remember their welfare system was very similar to the UK's, and if I remember rightly it was even more generous than ours.  I can remember chatting to a bunch of surfing lads on a beach and was shocked to find out that they were all on the dole and were getting about double what they would have here in Britain! 

At the time it seemed that there were loads of youngsters hanging around on the beaches while claiming benefits.  They're known as 'Dole Bludgers', and very similarly ordinary hard working Aussies get very angry about them!! 

Another shocker was when I went into an Bottle Shop in rural Western Australia, grabbed a slab of beers and a box of wine and took them to the checkout. There was a conversation with the Checkout Girl that went something like this:-

CG: Sorry I can't sell you those!
TH: Whynot? I'm over 18!
CG: It's Thursday!
TH: Eh? What's that got to do with anything??
CG: (Looking abit embarrassed) I'll get the manager...

The manager then came over and quietly explained that they weren't allowed to sell alcohol on a Thursday as it was when the dole cheques were issued and the Aborigines would blow it all on booze!!    So I had a dry Thursday night!!    I bet the Bottle Shop was busy on a Friday though!! 

    

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If the comments had come from someone who had earnt their fortune then I might take some interest. But this woman was born with a silver spoon n her loud mouth, and probably has never done a real days work in her life. Daddy left her billions, my heart bleeds for her. If I was Australian in Australia think I would probably be on a go slow right now.

Agreed......Let the  dog ugly out of touch bint work for minimum wage for a while.

Surely she could afford a new face...

[Varche]

smoke, drink and socialize

No that seems about the right life balance to me.

[Rods2]

Slow day for DD, he hasn't been on here yet to say I would. 

[redelitev6]

I lived in Australia for a bit in the late 90's and from what I remember their welfare system was very similar to the UK's, and if I remember rightly it was even more generous than ours.  I can remember chatting to a bunch of surfing lads on a beach and was shocked to find out that they were all on the dole and were getting about double what they would have here in Britain! 

At the time it seemed that there were loads of youngsters hanging around on the beaches while claiming benefits.  They're known as 'Dole Bludgers', and very similarly ordinary hard working Aussies get very angry about them!! 

Another shocker was when I went into an Bottle Shop in rural Western Australia, grabbed a slab of beers and a box of wine and took them to the checkout. There was a conversation with the Checkout Girl that went something like this:-

CG: Sorry I can't sell you those!
TH: Whynot? I'm over 18!
CG: It's Thursday!
TH: Eh? What's that got to do with anything??
CG: (Looking abit embarrassed) I'll get the manager...

The manager then came over and quietly explained that they weren't allowed to sell alcohol on a Thursday as it was when the dole cheques were issued and the Aborigines would blow it all on booze!!    So I had a dry Thursday night!!    I bet the Bottle Shop was busy on a Friday though!! 

    

Sadly very true, a work collegue of mine was in Ayres rock, she said it was very intimidating having loads of aggresive drunk Aborigines begging from them, the threat of violence was never far away