University students skipping meals due to rising cost of living | 7.30
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- For many university students right now, the stereotype of living on two-minute noodles is no longer a joke. Rising costs of living are forcing some students to regularly skip meals to stretch budgets, or consider abandoning their degrees altogether. Ellie Grounds reports.
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Students have been living on nothing but 2 minute noodles, or boiled rice for at least 30 years, now. The payments they've received for all that time have been minuscule compared to cost of living, and it's FAR worse, nowadays. They're being forced to decide between working to get just enough to eat, and studying. It's a disgrace.
There is nothing wrong with the noodle and the rice but an ability to choose. Add veggies, eggs, cheese in a wok or microwave all of them in a micrawavable container. There are so many useless students here and there. Tax is not free ! Tax for all ! Those who can't suit uni life MUST choose alternatives for better & financial education needed as well. So many ways to make money rather than "owning" uni degrees !
Yep nothings changed...ive always been lucky to get a singke meal a day.
@@laurad4486 I think you misread my comment, which was very clear: students are living on NOTHING BUT, noodles or rice - they can't afford vegetables, eggs and cheese to mix with them. No students are complaining because they expect to dine on sirloin steak.
@@laurad4486 Tax is for all, including students and the ill. Tax is meant to pay for the public good, including education and healthcare (including mental health). If you don't agree, perhaps you should move to the selfish, Divided States of America.
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004 how?
Anyone who goes on placement for their degree should be renumerated. Nurses, Teachers, Paramedics etc. It's crazy they need to 'save up' to go on placement!!!!
I Couldn't agree more. These people are a rare breed, and deserve all the support we can offer.
And pay for the priveledge!
Nurses used to get affordable accommodation and a small payment when they were trained by hospitals. And the healthcare system could afford that.
Neoliberal economics changed that, shifting public costs (and debts) to private individuals.
I think paramedics were in the same situation where they received on the job training?
Neoliberal economics is failing wider society, the states and country as a whole. It’s increasing the wealth divide year on year, and has been since 1981.
Lol my infectious disease Masters didn't even qualify for government assistance thanks Australia 😂😂
All placement deserve minimum wages not just nurses teacher's and suc
While I was on jobseeker living off of about $185 a week, I made a promise to myself not to buy any food that was over $1 per 100g. I developed pretty bad dietary problems from it.
If you can buy everything you need one the dole, why work? It’s supposed to be a safety net, not a lifestyle which caveppl have made it.
Plenty of food available for under $10kg.
@@rmac3217 you really believe that living off $185 per week is not only doable but a lifestyle choice? 🤦🏼♀️
@@Michelle_Emm It's $400 a week up to $500 with rental assistance to start with, that's for a single caveman with no kids who of course has the biggest mouth about politics as well, give him a hammer and he's worse than a 2 yr old.
Young people need to make this an issue and threaten not to vote for a party unless government payments are made better, and HELP HECS debts reduced.
I struggled to buy groceries as a college student. I dropped out and got a job. I paid off my home and car and now I’m back in college 15 years later but I’m more comfortable.
There is a difference between being 'poor' during university which is what a lot of comments are saying they went through, and living in 'poverty' which is what is currently happening. Let alone attending Uni during a housing crisis.
Furthermore, just add on Hecs debt and the issues with inflation and its indexation.
Just because your pain was different doesn't mean it hurts any less for people nowadays.
I opted to live in my car from Jan 2022 (15 months ago) and now saved $20K. People may look at me badly as though I made bad choices in life, that's why I live in a car, but I'm soon out to buy my own house (some parent support on that one, matching dollar-for-dollar).
Hunger and adversity makes you stronger. I washed dishes for two years and ate scraps off of peoples plates for food. I worked from 7am to sometimes 2am almost everyday for five dollars an hour. That’s was in the mid nineties. The ones who figure out a way and keep going get to reap the benefits. It’s called capitalism.
@@JoeBloggs-ev2ui you're right, that does sound amazing. Can't see why people looked at you funny...
@@jerrymylove1754 no a fan of eating other people's chewed up food, neither having a work like balance of a prisoner. Hence some of the downsides of capitalism, you live in horrible conditions until you can pay your way out
@@Nattherat64 the strong survive. That’s the whole point of it all. How else do you separate the wheat from the chaff?
That’s true. I am en engineering student and financial stress is real. You can’t focus because all your thinking is how to keep up with your bills. 😔
Power through! It'll be worth it! I'm now 28 and earn $112k+ converted 166k+ AUD.
@@djm2189 good for you mate, but who asked?
@@djm2189 in other words, you got lucky, because it's physically not possible for every Australian to earn that much, there just aren't enough jobs that pay that much. If everyone earned that much, the value of the currency would be worth significantly less than what it is now. So great advice, you've done absolutely nothing but attempt to flex your superiority. Great job mate, power through.
As someone who did power through an engineering degree with all the same stressors as you, I recommend that you not do it! I did graduate, but my GPA suffered and I couldn’t get any internships, so it was hard to find jobs (remember when they said they were grabbing engineers right off the graduation line? Yea that was a lie.) I recommend that you divert into something that is actually in dire need and much easier and shorter, like a trade such as electrician or nursing, IF you are not too far along yet. If you are, I recommend finishing, but take it easy on yourself, just do the minimum to pass, get the degree, and get some kind of job where all they’re looking for is a degree, doesn’t matter what type or what GPA. I became a military pilot. It has its ups and downs, but it beats being a glorified office slave having to deal with entitled nerds, as I did in my one and only engineering position.
I studied nursing and finished back in 2011. I felt trapped in the profession because I invested so much of myself into studying, often going days at a time working nights and placements during the days surviving on just naps. Nursing students should get paid for these placements to prevent this from happening and then feeling trapped in the profession. I finally left nursing in 2019 after horrific bullying in multiple departments in the health system. It was a hard decision as I had invested so much into the degree… and not just time, so much of my mental health. I now am studying early childhood education and I am being paid to train and much happier. Something need to change.
I finished my nursing degree in 1999 and worked every weekend during placements and any other 'short' shifts I could legally work to fit everything in I was also delivering junk mail and doing other odd jobs just to earn something as others have said things were tight back then. I use to go and sit in the library and study as the books cost so much I couldn't afford them but you could sit and use the school copy so I would do that.
You need to change jobs until you find one you are happy with, don’t let them run you out of your profession. Try school nurses, visiting nurses, and other hospitals and medical centers. There really are nice people out there. Nursing in the US are unionized with 1199, etc.
What do you do now? if you don’t mind me asking .
Good for you Rachelle. It's always good to leave a toxic environment. I feel like people like to glamorize the nursing field. But the reality isn't that.....
Nursing is horrible, I totally agree! My husband and I have been nurses for 17yrs now and we met in nursing school. I have since left the field as I had a catastrophic health diagnosis 13yrs ago and am now partially disabled and unable to work much. I home school our son and take care of the house while occasionally doing small work gigs when I am able. My husband works as night ER charge for a small rural hospital, and it is still rough (although it is about as good as it gets for hospital nursing). Even with being super careful, living at home during school, and working jobs in top of going to nursing school and doing clinicals I still graduated with $44k in student loans, and my husband with $90k in student loans. We paid them off years ago by scrimping and saving and living frugally, but we cannot see paying more to continue education or enter a different career field for him. He's getting paid decently enough and is secure enough, but we both know long term it won't work forever. We are about 40yrs old now and he's totally wearing down from the strain. Becoming upper level mngmt is not a viable choice either as they work an insane amount of hours, so staying charge makes more sense bang for your buck wise. We always tell people, "don't go into nursing!!!!!!". Awful working conditions despite having a bachelor's degree, not so great pay usually, and you are treated like a dog.
Sadly, many degrees don't help the students get a job. Maybe colleges should give a workshop on that, and how to apply for loans, and the reality of paying the money back.
I went to college back in the 1980's and each week I would buy a 10 pound bag of potatoes, some broccoli and carrots and would snag all the butter I could from the cafeterias on campus because I couldnt afford the butter to put on the baked potatoes and stuff. On weekends I would cut and sell firewood, collect returnable bottles and cans for their deposit money and try to make it on $200/month.
The good thing was companies that were recruiting would come to campus and have a room with cookies, snacks and juice drinks and those were a must to attend even if you werent graduating soon!
I got toilet paper from school to save my money
If we need more nurses, make that qualification free and provide scholarship; if we need more teachers make that qualification free and provide scholarship; if we need more psychologists make that qualification free and provide scholarship....
People typically don't just do degrees for fun, it's often because they need to obtain a career to achieve basic life goals - and industries often take advantage of the qualifications; and these people end up paying back to the tax system anyway.
Time to rethink the system we have.
Agree. It's not hard to rack up $50K before you enter the workforce. That needs to be looked at
Even free, most people don't have the time nor energy to study, with most of us working full time or even multiple jobs. It's not human to work so much, study and then try to fit in social activities and hobbies. Why is the part that makes us human, very last?
@@JoeBloggs-ev2ui Do you mean it is hard?
It's disgusting. In the EU, colleges rarely have tuition fees, and if they do, it's symbolic.
@@NightinGal89
That's because the taxpayers in the EU are funding tuition costs for the most part.
I ate rice, ramen and onions with 1 egg in the morning and 1 hotdog for dinner. For lunch I worked at a cafeteria. Hotdog prices have quadrupled since my college days. If I had to do it again I would replace the hotdogs with the cheapest grocery rotisserie chicken and make it last a week. In the end the bones would go in the ramen onion broth. I feel bad for kids today because college tuition has risen so fast .
I worked at the Post Office during uni, this was 15 years ago. I couldn't get Aus Study it wasn't enough, I had to get the Job 'Seeker' which was called something different at the time. I worked 5 days at the Post Office, 4am Starts, get to uni by 9am and I was dead to the world by 3pm. I lived off pancake batter when I had 74c in my bank account. When the eggs ran out I made pancakes without eggs. When the milk ran out I made them without milk. I had one meal a day and that was usually pancakes. I was sharing a house, I had no social life at all, I didn't buy coffee, avocado toast wasn't a thing for the proles yet, and my grades were tanking. And since I was on a Job Seeker payment I still had all the mutual obligations I had to go to because my full time study wasn't 'full time enough', so I did useless courses to prove I could use a computer and spell my name, submit 20 job applications a week or whatever it was at the time. A real waste of resources, time and effort. Luckily I eventually found a job I could do part time with uni that paid enough to get me through. Until I got sick.
Yep.
I wonder if exhaustion led to you getting sick.
@@fab3laundry No, it was the pancakes.
Hard to watch as someone who was forced to leave uni due to working 20 hours a week just to eat while studying a double degree and racking up 14k a year in debt. So much for the lucky country.
extra fun: if you do uni part time so you can work to afford rent and food, you're not eligible for student allowance! :D
Atleast the degree is considered valuable right ? ..
@@aena5995 no, there are plenty of certs and degrees that are essentially useless.
It's a sacrifice that will pay off with a completed degree at the end.
@@alaska1790 is it better to study abroad for a valuable western degree or is it better for me to just stay in my Asian home country to get the bachelor's( business data analytics) my parents paid without being scared of deportation or the chance of visa issues ?? Cuz Ik someone who studied 2 years abroad of his medical degree then cuz of some dumb law they weren't issuing him his residence so he has to start all over in his own country ... I really do want to get away from this toxic family and economic crises
I was very fortunate as a student getting welfare, family support & some work.
Some 30 years ago the cost of living was low. I could afford food, alcohol, and coffee.
The fact is Australia has become a really expensive place. Moreover our rents are extremely high.
Its no wonder students are struggling. It saddens me they are missing meals.
"In my day we used to live on cheap food too so stop complaining". Why can't these sorts of people see a better way of life? People in the 1800's used to die of bacterial infections, does this mean we should resort back to not using antibiotics because we shouldn't have a better quality of life as technology improves? It isn't like there is a shortage of food or material.
When you look at what graduates often have to go through after study is even worse. I did law, where there are not enough jobs for too many graduates, and my first job was barely minimum pay at $30,000 a year. That was on top of an incredibly bullying boss who used to scream at me when I brought finished work to her too soon, told me that I was stupid, and tracked how often I went to the bathroom. I felt like I couldn't leave because law jobs were so few and far between. Students should take a long hard look at whether they even need to study. Get an apprenticeship or learn something like coding instead.
I feel you, I am in the same situation too, my boss is always demanding and saying rude remarks on my intellect. But it is not easy to find an accounting job these days so I have to endure this work placement
I hope you get to confront her with your success one of these days!
Ive been offered phd positions at 3 different unis, but the stipend they pay is far too low to live off of. How can they expect an adult to work a 40 hour week, and survive on two thrirds of the minimun wage, when the minimum wage isnt high enough to live on in this country. You cant even rent anywhere near Macquarie university for less than $600 a week at the minute.
This is why the vast majority of my friends doing their PhDs live at home and are affluent. I'm on a very decent six fig salary and I can't justify going back to do a PhD. The scholarship + uni work (good rates but low hours) means I'll cut my gross income to less than a third. How on earth am I supposed to "save up for a house" or put away much in savings after rent when I'm making less than I did during my undergrad working at Dominos?
My partner had to do unpaid full-time and part time work placements for one of her degree's but luckily for us I was working. However, even with 1 income it was difficult, we were bleeding into our savings every fortnight even on an Engineer's salary. If you're single or have dependents, it's close to impossible.
Are you in Australia? Mind if I ask how old and how much your engineering job pays over there? I'm in the US and I'm 28 earning $112k+ converted to 166k+ AUD. Thanks!
@@djm2189 Yep, in Aus.
Without giving out exact stats, I'm in the public sector (which pays probably less than average) with under 5 yrs experience on about the same as you.
I started on 90k AUD (base) straight out of uni.
Demand for engineers is decent here, there are always jobs flying around on linkedin.
For grad's, they dont get paid too well, thats probably why most young people switch jobs here every 2-5 years, seems to be the trend for better wage growth.
It was bad enough in 2013, let alone now. Student unions have, for a long time, run food pantries. Now students dominate lines at community food banks and food pantries too.
Mmmm can’t remember living it up as a uni student in the 80s, several jobs, dodgy share houses, baked beans and egg jaffles, riding tiny motorbikes miles to bridge the distance between affordable housing, work and uni…
I love how they say they don't have money for food but their kitchen is the size of my old apartment.
I survived on dirt to get through college. Did it again to buy my first house. Don't give up, you have to self rescue your own life.
Students been skipping meal since the beginning of time with overprice tuition fees and overprice textbooks.
Very sad. Even working people like me fall sick easily because of COVID and end up missing work and money .
Yes finally it is being acknowledged that rent is 60% of income for students and the unemployed.
Only 60%
@@bigredone1030 when that is of a measly amount of $40 a day as it was for over 20 years and you have noone supporting you, it's well.below poverty line. How much do you think would be acceptable 85%. Are you even Australian?
That is way I bought apartment for my kids. No way those with selfish parents will be able to graduate in serious qualifications
@@love__and__hope__ that is such a beautiful gift. I didn't get any support from my parents.
I was a student for many years, and had to be very frugal with food cost. To the point that I preferred to eat well but give up renting, i struck a deal with friends to stay with them and chip in for good meals. They liked that setup too so it worked well for all.
Although this isn’t new barely surviving in college. I had friends who had to go to college part time or almost completely online to be able to afford to just attend college because they had to work full time. You basically exhausted, stressed and tired everyday all while being broke lol
I was a starving student in Dublin, I lived in a hostel, I went to food banks for free bread, I walked many times and used the bus sometimes, and I ate rice, and bread with butter most of the time.
Make that two times worse for international students. I'm sorry she has to manage like this 💔
This country has been run into the ground for years 😔
Won't be much better choosing paramedics as a career. I know a lot of people leaving this profession in NSW because you can only live on peanuts for so long.
She can't eat three square meals a day, yet she lives in a nice house... go figure!! 🤣🤣
How do you what her rental circumstances are? How do you even know it's a nice house? Judgemental arent you - It's not as if she was asking for your money.
1:15 she's fighting the good fight. I can barely remember the previous word I said sometimes when I try to recall or I'll go blank
It seems like all we ever do is talk about this issue every couple years and it only gets worse and still never gets fixed. I love my country, but damn we need to do something about how much our citizens are struggling. Most of us can't even afford to study or eat or even go outside occasionally, owning a home or having financial security is an unobtainable dream. My mate had to work 2 jobs just to be able to solve his homelessness and I now have 2 jobs just to face the cost of living. This is a massive issue that we can't fix by just printing more money time and time again, let's actually use more than 2 brain cells to come up with a better solution than devaluing currency by forcing more into the circulation to pretend that our citizens are richer.
Why don't you relocate ??Come to India mate !!Its pretty cheap..Hell I'll welcome you mate
@@satyambinayakdash5339 No offense, but just because we have this issue doesn't mean I want to go to any other country. I'm Australian mate and we don't give up just because shits a little rough. We stick through it and better ourselves and our country. I know for a fact that India still faces homelessness and the rising cost of living, so moving to India would do literally nothing to solve this issue that the entire world faces. Everywhere just prints money because they can, it devalues the currency and then everyone becomes poorer while the select few with enough capital can continue to profit regardless of currency changes because it's easy to make money with money.
@@dylancrosby2451
Plus, India is a country people are fleeing from, not to.
change your govt
I stayed instate and with my parents which prevented a college experience but prevented me from having college debt and also had a scholarship to help me with tuition. I wish I had more of a college experience but I’m in a better situation because of my sacrifices. It’s just the way it is these days.
Even during my internship when I made only $15 an hour I shopped at aldi and ate ramen and sandwiches for the most part
...and what about the ones who fell through the gaps years ago due to this exact issue...like myself...
That's life.
@@fab3laundry thats what ive got to say to you when you skip one meal once and have a cry about it 😆🙄
@@seedy-TV I eat one meal a day every day. I am not bringing up how in the olden days I only had my mum cooking food for me all day. You winger
@@fab3laundrygood for you.
The worst is even you have finished your degree, it doesn't guarantee you a job unless you study nursing something on high demand. And you have a student loan to pay back, many ended up stocking shelves in supermarket, driving Uber......da sadly for today's uni graduates. The government miss matched the job market with the uni education.
Wow! I feel relieved watching this. I thought I was the poorest person in Australia.
But there's others also struggling.
I work full time however.
Still, the vast majority of Aussies are simply dripping with wealth.
I dont think that is the case, Many older people only have paper wealth. All well and good that your house is worth 1.5 mil, but you cant really use that to pay for food.
They just look wealthy
@@joshsmyth130
Oh you most certainly can!
Anyone who was watching property prices skyrocket during the pandemic leveraged that asset to gain extra loan amounts which they used to live a champagne lifestyle - now the RBA are reigning that back in and they are blaming the Governor! 😅
@Joe Bloggs ah but you then have to pay it back, if u sell you still need to find a new house.
@@joshsmyth130
But you can use the money to buy food - that was your original point that I commented on how they can do it
Nothing new. I had to skip meals in college in late 90’s. It’s unfortunately realty for a lot of American students too.
This is a worldwide phenomenon.
Happening here in the U.S.
Poor nutritional intake affects the brain's ability to work effectively and thus concentrating, recall, ability to retain information is impacted. When on AUSTUDY at university twenty years plus ago, even then, AUSTUDY was not nearly enough and that was back in the 1990's.
How is life for truck drivers in australia?
Thank you for covering this story. Currently on a placement, this is a very real issue.
It is hard being a student, I lived in a toliet converted room for 4 years through uni to go through Uni. The room could only fit a desk and single bed, when I look back, I think it was a good experience that I did it, we not from money, so go through hardtimes is not always a bad thing for later.
It’s the same problem with age wage. It’s criminal. I was being used as a supervisor at the age of 18 in the commonwealth bank. But only being paid age wage base wage. And my cost of living was exactly the same as the 30 year old living next to me. I can’t believe we still have age wage today. For those that live away from home. My son is studying away as we don’t access to education in regional areas, his cost of living just the same as anybody else living in the city he lives in. He receives a youth allowance which is also criminal and he earns age wage. We come from a high unemployment country town, with a terrible underfunded and mismanaged high school, with no transport to anywhere better. So sending him to Newcastle gives him more opportunity, and a smart kid to be further educated to become a teacher and himself to make a difference to society and the economy, but he’s being discriminated against because he’s 17/18. And now he’s rethinking about uni. A teacher, desperately needed in Australia. The government has to look at the system we operate under if only for the need of present and future skilled and educated labour. And why is it ok for young people who are enthusiastic to work, earn money, become skilled up for the workforce to be treated financially different to anybody else. Criminal. Disgusting. This generation must find it hard to stay motivated. But I’m thinking our government hasn’t and doesn’t care about skilled australian or australian students.
Worse still is raking up a debt inspite of such hardships
The Uni I went to couple of years ago has no food supports. I didn’t go to parties or any luxury. I was either at Uni or at home on my bed. My parents have no idea how poor I were because I don’t want them to know until my sister told them I couldn’t even afford 2 meals a day. I even had to borrow money from my friend if I didn’t earn anything that week. And it was before the crazy inflation.
😢 my uni might be third world atleast uni is cheap but the western degree apparently r more "valuable" it's so not fair 😢
@@aena5995 disagree. The western degree isn't more valuable when there aren't even enough jobs for you to use the degree on. All that matters is if the employer wants you out of the hundreds of other applicants with the same degree.
With no $1 coffees anymore, students are really going to need way more kettles to be in the lunchroom.
This says all i need to know.
Who gives a f about things like coffee when you havent got food‽
I wished I never went to Uni, because the course level was academically too high for public students. I didn't know public schools were vocational UNTIL after I had struggled failed at Uni with student debts.
Same with me, I studied Psychology right after High School I thought I could do it but it was too hard for me I dropped out straight away and too much stress juggling bills and a full time job aswell so I went to TAFE instead and became a Drug and Alcohol Counsellor way way easier workload, some people can do Uni and more respect to them but others can't handle it and that's perfectly okay to say the least.
@@alexandermcbrien264 I was scammed to go Uni, thinking that my HSC award certified my readiness for higher Ed, (when actually everyone gets their HSC regardless of their low grades). If you are a public school student, you have much higher risk of failing later at Uni than private student.
That's just crap. Public school students actually achieve higher university marks than private school students once controlled for socioeconomic status. Either you were from a poor family and unfortunately suffered because of it - or you're a dumbass. Either way it's not the fault of the public school system.
..but hey we can afford Subs and 250 billion tax cuts. So much for priorities.
@@tjmarx we aren't getting much for our $ with the subs. We should have gone with the Japanese or French options if subs were the game. By the time we get them the point of them will be missed, and against any bigger power than us they are pretty much useless. Colossal waste of money if we are honest.
@@tjmarx Australia having subs is pretty well pointless, as we can't keep enough operational to do much, we can't buy or field enough to make again any difference, and we don't have the personnel or expertise, which is another additional cost headache, on top of what to do with the uranium. Just have a look at all the English and Russian subs rotting in their shipyards. This is primarily about extending the US reach to contain China and hold onto their power, for which we pay a crazy amount.Whats more now we will have regular and growing bases for US deployment, which has us going from a more neutral position to a more or less offensive. This with a 20/30 year wait for our supposed self defence! Atm our primary trading partner is China. The notion that any other series of pacts/bloc will rival that any time soon is fanciful, and economically devastating. This is poor diplomacy. This just ramps up tensions, and military budgets. Its ridiculous.
@@locuus7 its about the us trying to stake its foothold in the pacific and maintain its hegemony. The government doesn't really have the option not to do it though cause of the power the US holds. The cost is just ridiculous and the things that kind of money could do in stabilizing housing and rebalancing the economy is mind blowing. but the government has to keep everything tight cause of how the liberals operate and cry about costs, despite being the worst economic managers we've ever had. its all in choices that they make, like why isnt the government just buying houses to rent at reduced rates. it helps to fix the problem and provides an income stream for the future.
@@joshsmyth130 my only hope is the timeline means we might get to change our minds. I understand the solidifying of AUKUS, but I feel we could navigate this diplomatically, and thus fiscally way better. Australia under Keating engaged with Asia, and we could continue that trend, focusing on the diplomatic with China. China could turn off the valve of trade and we would be screwed in an instant. The trade, and thus diplomatic channels are vital, and we are needlessly escalating almost like a spearhead. We could be more subtle. I think its irresponsible considering what actual war would mean. As far as the economics, it's like the old trickle down argument, it's one of the great economic lies. We can't afford to do this, this or this, but here is a bottomless well of money if its military. Neoliberalism is in deep doo-doo. The growing disparity, housing costs, low wages with the excuse of inflation, the debacle that is the NDIS, the massive issues with aged care, early childhood, public education, pensions....Trickle down economics no longer believed, the economics of covid, and ever growing disparity has shook general confidence. Things are really precarious, and old economics are not going to cut it. Thank God we still have a skerrick more of socialism in our politics than the likes of the US. There are a million ways we can afford these things, and 'rebalance the economy,' as you said. But Labor having chased the Libs so far right in search of a mythical centre won't.
@david fraser the overton continues its march rightward unfortunately. But hopefully these disparities and suffering bring hope and possibilities rather than apathetic defeat.
Ive been lucky to have a meal a day my entire life.
Rent and housing way too high. Stop non residents from buying in Australia
Aren't international students supposed to be loaded and come to Australia with enough to support themselves
Most come from developing countries how would they be loaded especially with the currency difference
Chris that is generalising all students into one bucket.
So by this assumption students who are not wealthy enough should never get an opportunity to study in Australia and strive for a better lifestyle.
I’m studying online at the moment through TAFE because I’m afraid of losing my income and not being able to live. I currently work permanent part-time but get a lot of shifts so it’s really like full time. It’s hard to discipline yourself with online but it’s the only way where I don’t go broke!
how`school?
That's crazy it's been 3 months and your gatekeeping you can't answer not one literal question down here this really is typical human behavior
i dont want to go to University because its great hardship when you are a Grandma. From Gladys in East London. I got into University 21 Years ago and Im Very Happy About not Going to Study Further.
Universities are deliberately trying to make this worse. Before the pandemic they have the excuse but now that there is proof that a degree can be delivered remotely, there is no reason not to give students an option between remote and in-person classes, especially for international students, especially for classes that don't require in-person labs. That would allow many students to live at home, and reduce the rent stress for students who do live near unis for in-person classes. That would cost nothing to them or the government.
Some universities get it and provide a lot of online options, but some like University of Sydney are forcing all students, including those who started their degree remotely and only have one semester left to move to cental Sydney, which of course is ridiculously expensive. They acknowledge the fact that some of their students are literally homeless or living with rats, some international students who can afford it are literally living in hotels because there are no apartments, but they basically said they don't care, possibly because they are making banks off of hiking the prices for student accommodation.
Oh my god. I am always look at other's and considered myself poor, but seeing this i realise and how grateful for always had enough food.
I don't feel sorry for foreign students, you come to foreign country you have to fund yourself that is the cost of western University degree
i agree with u as well with this point and i was an international student back in 2005 😅 … i had to study and work …
We shouldn't be trapped in our shitty country tho
@@aena5995
Then fight for change in your sh---- country.
she lives in a big house alone, is that the poverty line in Australia?
That lady has her fees paid via a scholarship and also an allowance and is still complaining? I used my own money to pay my fees and small allowance and worked to pay it off. I only ate one meal a day in Uni and never complained. Was just so happy to get to be in Australia. She needs to go back to Bangladesh and learn what real suffering and poverty means.
This video let me know how 🍀 lucky I am to have been a child of of a family who have good family business that pays well - I was supported and still am financially by my dad despite working now
I pay for partial
Household expenses and have 10 percent of my income paid to my dad as allowance
Other than that I get to spend the rest on my own
❤
What a blessing. Wish more people have what you do ❤
@@suraidashaari ❤ I know where you are coming from and I am happy to hear from you.
Still doing great. They have a safe and warm place to stay, food to eat, they're getting an education.
When students did not skip meals? I remember blowing my part time job earnings and having to eat tastless horrible outmeals 😂
What student eats 3 times a day? Most only eat once @ dinner. The only cost cutting these young people will do is cut down on alcohol consumption.
For a Commonwealth funded student to come to Australia and be massively struggling is appalling! ... literately false hope!
We’re in a golden age of WFH jobs and gig work. Just earn more money. If not drop your hours down to part time.
This is how many international students lived in Australia to pay highly unjustified fees for a bachelor or a master… the to realise that by doing a trade and no studies you can earn fairly.
Good luck Misha
Working plenty on the weekend got me through. Interesting to hear yhey didnt mention how many casual hours she does
Parents should help out. Parents should bear some responsibility to see them through uni.
I don't think so, independence works both ways and giving them more when they are capable of earning it themselves will only make them lazy
I am helping all my three kids. Otherwise they most likely end up poor and die young. As I see often with poor acquaintances
@@love__and__hope__ are u paying international student tuition fees I wanted to study abroad but in my developing country atleast for the bachelor's idk if it's worth it 😢
The reality is that many parents can't afford to help.
Rental price is sky rocketing
I eat once or twice a day also. I'm debt free with the exception of monthly bills like insurance, fuel, food etc, which are bills in perpetuity.
Learn to sacrifice and do without. Get out of debt ASAP and live within your means or below.
UA-cam: Struggle meals.
Helped with some meal ideas.
I hope these people get through this and get the career they are studying for.
My college days consisted of a diet of toast with Nutella and maruchan instant lunch. Maybe go for fast food 1 or 2 times a week. Wish my college had a free food pantry service.
"It's unsustainable. How do you expect an adult to live on nothing"? Most people don't expect an adult to live on nothing. We expect able bodied adults to get a job. Ever thought of going to school part time and working? Many people do that and are quite successful.
I finished my 3 years accounting degree without any maintenance loan. I worked night shifts and went to uni during the day. They only moan.
Wow that’s tough ! How manage on no sleep ? Damn
Aint no way accountant's talking shit about paramedics. Give it a couple more years, she will halfway through her mortgage and you'll be barely holding up if you're lucky considering your botched up grades and ai taking accounting jobs. 🤣🤣
If this state of depression is ultimately resulting in students academic performance... Then is there a point of studying while having to way such economical burdens!
Ima make sure my daughter stay close to home so she doesnt need to leave home to go to college, because all she need to focus on is studying NOT paying for rent. Da faq.
Yup, I'm 25 and have been eating only breakfast for years.
This was my experience 14 years ago. Having to pay Australian owned supermarkets for New Zealand produce is BS
Students have been doing this for decades.
True. I starved my way through further education way back in 1985. It was not easy and rent took up most of my income.
@@user-kq4kd8be2t damn r u serious don't parents help y'all out ..
@@aena5995 Not if the parent(s) are struggling themselves at the time. Many young have to grow up quickly and take full responsibility for themselves at a younger age. That's life.
I've been averaging one meal a day for nearly two years...
Financial stress is unbearable. I’m going through it. I can’t concentrate. I need a miracle.
maybe these students are learning something from all this. get a job!!
Money was tight when I went through Uni, (9 years ago). Skipped meals all the time…
The younger generation already feel like living on a rationed quota in every aspect of their lives. Having said that this woman will be learning knowledge that is worth more than the tuition she is paying away for. But just that redeeming process will be longer
2 minutes noodle is more expensive than buying flour and canned food is expensive too.
Been there too when I was going to college, paying rent, and living by myself without much help a decade ago. It sucks. I never understood what people meant when they talked about how great their 'college life' is because I never went to parties, worked a full time job and trying to pay off my tuition. It's like you are being punished for trying to get yourself educated.
the sad thing about this, all these effort and sacrifices to finish college would end up paying nothing unless you have an actual useful degree.
Now if they skipped meals after weighing themselves, that would be a massive scandal down at ABC.
Lol... hell yeah !
I’m pretty sure abc staff have a free morning tea for some ‘cause’ every other day
Shocker
This is nothing new. When I was a college student in the early 70's. I practically lived on cake, especially at the end of the month.
They need to teach students how to shop. Oatmeal, bananas, rice beans and tomatoes and peppers . All cheap.
Good for health, go omad, one meal a day 😁
It's ok. You will be healthier. I skipped meals when i was saving funds to pay for my uni tuition fees. No financial assistance at all. But it makes me stronger physically & emotionally over time.
Exactly. I did the same in college. It's a standard.
Skipping meals is NOT healthy wtf
You do not need three meals a day.
Yes its sooo expensive
Talk..Talk...Talk...no action
What is disgraceful about this is that social security payments are going up (dolebludgers included) but where is the incentive for students who are studying to get a career going. They are also being rorted thousands of dollars a year for their university education. There are countries in the world that have free university education.
Benefits are 502€/month plus paid rent, heat and health insurance. I live on 400€/month after my cheap rent and I pay 120€ health insurance plus TV fees which people on benefits don't have to pay either, which results in about 270€/month for food, clothes, books, etc. My parents are "too rich" for me to get state-funded student support. I work and get a little money from my parents. I know it's a limited time but it's been 5 years already and I can't take it anymore, it'll be another year until I finish and hopefully get employed. I wish I had at least what money people on benefits have, I shouldn't be able to even exist with what little I have. I coupon a lot and get food from containering, and if I'm lucky, I can steal food from work