I want to buy a house in Sydney. So I've decided to become the Treasurer of Australia. It's a good job that pays good money.
My employer will even pay for my wife's investment property.
Some of our cleaners at work are bloody hard working. Obviously they must be getting good money. Thinking back to some of the hardest work I've ever done, john Howard paid me $36 a day. Hard work pays off.
One can only imagine how better off they'd be if they didn't have their rights traded for self interest...
Our panel beater is a family friend who runs a prestige repair business. His work won't any poorer for doing a cash job.I would warn against keeping insurance out of it. In my experience that results in a cheaper quote but also lower quality work.
Suggest telling the panel shop that you'll be going via insurance. Then at least you'll have a full priced quote.
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I'm still honestly wondering what the fuss is about. Isn't what the Treasurer said simply true? if you want to buy a house [and the topic was Sydney housing] you DO need a good job. Unless you have the cash in hand, no financial institution will lend you the required funds without evidence you can service the loan. Like a good paying job.
Someone pls tell me what is actually problematical with what the quote says. Just straight up and down - what's incorrect?
I'm still honestly wondering what the fuss is about. Isn't what the Treasurer said simply true? if you want to buy a house [and the topic was Sydney housing] you DO need a good job. Unless you have the cash in hand, no financial institution will lend you the required funds without evidence you can service the loan. Like a good paying job.
Someone pls tell me what is actually problematical with what the quote says. Just straight up and down - what's incorrect?
As the Italian T-shirt at the Berlusconi rally goes "Siamo tutti coglioni." In Australian terms, it means we are all politicians earning average wages with property portfolios...Quite simple. A "good job" doesn't buy you a house in Sydney or Melbourne anymore. An exceptional job that pays $120k plus will give you the means to buy an okay house.
Oh wait, I'm probably preaching to the wrong audience as a fair number of people reading this probably make more than that.
As the Italian T-shirt at the Berlusconi rally goes "Siamo tutti coglioni." In Australian terms, it means we are all politicians earning average wages with property portfolios...
Quite simple. A "good job" doesn't buy you a house in Sydney or Melbourne anymore. An exceptional job that pays $120k plus will give you the means to buy an okay house.
Oh wait, I'm probably preaching to the wrong audience as a fair number of people reading this probably make more than that.
Well unfortunately in this country, unless you already own property. You're screwed
Well, we might need to debate about what a "good job" means (and what Hockey meant!) over a glass or three of red but we now recall what he began his sentence with :
"The starting point for a first home buyer is to get a good job that pays good money ... "
If a young relative asked me how they should go about getting the wherewithal to buy a house I would say (and, IIRC, I think I DID say something like this to a niece once :shock: - and now she DOES 'own' a house with a mortgage).
"The starting point would be get as good job as you can, earning as much as you can earn, and save, save, save for a deposit." I think that's a completely unremarkable statement. Just because many can't realise the dream of home ownership because they can't find a job - coughpy, good or exceptional paying - doesn't make the statement(s) less accurate, I think.
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Coalition: cabinet ministers and spouses' property ownership and salary
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[TH="class: sorting"]Position[/TH]
[TH="class: sorting"]Salary[/TH]
[TH="class: sorting_desc"]Number of properties*[/TH]
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[TD="class: text"]Malcolm Turnbull[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"] 7[/TD]
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[TD="class: text"]Peter Dutton[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]5[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Joe Hockey[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Treasurer[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$366,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]4[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Mathias Cormann[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]4[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Warren Truss[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Deputy prime minister[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$400,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]4[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Barnaby Joyce[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]3[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Julie Bishop[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]3[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Mitch Fifield[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Government manager of business in the Senate[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$341,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]3[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Sussan Ley[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]3[/TD]
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[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Eric Abetz[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Government Senate leader[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$366,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]2[/TD]
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[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]George Brandis[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Kevin Andrews[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Nigel Scullion[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]2[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Andrew Robb[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Bruce Billson[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Christopher Pyne[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Leader of the House of Reps[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$341,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
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[TD="class: text"]Greg Hunt[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Ian MacFarlane[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="class: text"]Scott Morrison[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Cabinet member[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$337,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="class: text"]Tony Abbott[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]Prime minister[/TD]
[TD="class: text"]$507,000[/TD]
[TD="class: number sorting_1"]1[/TD]
[/TR]
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Well, we might need to debate about what a "good job" means (and what Hockey meant!) over a glass or three of red but we now recall what he began his sentence with :
"The starting point for a first home buyer is to get a good job that pays good money ... "
If a young relative asked me how they should go about getting the wherewithal to buy a house I would say (and, IIRC, I think I DID say something like this to a niece once :shock: - and now she DOES 'own' a house with a mortgage).
"The starting point would be get as good job as you can, earning as much as you can earn, and save, save, save for a deposit." I think that's a completely unremarkable statement. Just because many can't realise the dream of home ownership because they can't find a job - coughpy, good or exceptional paying - doesn't make the statement(s) less accurate, I think.
Still I suppose he has a point, it would've been so much easier if I just got a good job that pays good money instead of wasting 10 years at university getting an education followed by 16 years building a career.