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A local university student has today spent a productive couple of hours mindlessly scrolling her social media.
The cause for the wormhole comes from an incredible performance of Mozart’s 6th Edition of the Köchel catalogue, as young Ellie Smith tries to get onto someone about her Youth Allowance.
The fourth year Occupational Therapy student says she’s relieved to finally be able to claim independent status from her parents, but it has been quite the process trying to get onto someone at human services.
“Fuck me dead, pretty efficient process trying to sort this out,” said the young woman who has another 5 months of unpaid placement coming up in multiple locations.
“I mean, as one of 5 kids to a local road-worker and a school teacher, I’m not really sure the means test excluding me from youth allowance while I study is exactly fair, but it is what it is,” said Smith.
“That’s why I thought once I turned 21 I’d be able to get some help from the government to cover the costs of full time study, unpaid placement – which makes it awful hard to hold down a job.”
“Particularly when I’ve gotta go spend 6 weeks in Roma, then head off to Townsville for a 3 month swing before finishing in Brisbane.”
Speaking about the process of trying to get some funds from the government to study for a job in a low paying industry that benefits society, Smith sighed.
“I spent hours trying to go through the online portal, but then there was a glitch on one of the questions and I couldn’t move forward.”
“So now I’ve listened to a couple of hours of Mozart’s finest trying to get onto to someone to see if they can fix whatever in the system.”
“Wish me luck.”
More to come.
