Comment on Discussion Thread 🦕 Wednesday 19 November 2025

LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

oversharing about annoying friends

I don’t know why she told me all this but Found out today that the friend I’ve commented on about here who’s always late and does other things that are inconsiderate is cheating the Centrelink system. I’ve been friends with her since the beginning of high school, and she would come to school without lunch because her parents wouldn’t feed her and she didn’t know how to feed herself. Now her father just throws money at her, probably as an apology for not actually being a parent. She lives at home with her father, studying, and is unemployed, but her father lists her as an employee so he pays less tax. She is leeching off not only his money, but is now getting payments from Centrelink because her dad’s income is less than is what is reported due to the loopholes like this. What has she done with this “free money” so far? No, she doesn’t buy groceries often or contribute to the household. She’s sent me pictures of the things she’s bought - $250 worth of lipsticks (half price on sale), a $250 bracelet, and a speaker for her PC. When it comes to going out for food though, she won’t spend more than $15 ever. Or she will drive (using her dad’s money for petrol) to places pretty out of the way to get cheap food. Meanwhile, people on the DSP can’t move in with their partners earning an income, because the system thinks their partner can support them. I’ve commented on all this before but it’s “free money” so she doesn’t care. It’s absolutely disgusting how the system allows for things like this. I appreciate that I can be my weird self around this friend, but the misalignment of morals and values we’ve got going is really rubbing me the wrong way.

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