Thanks Master and Fractelle. They know what they’re doing, I do keep everything written down. They also know me and my house really well on account of the number of kids I had right up until I complained. Dir-Gen and Reg-Dir have been in contact along with some other managers. My suspicion is denied while the reality is ignored.

I guess I was wondering if it was another cultural thing I missed, not with Aussie but within government departments. Thought someone here might know if it looks like something that is commonly done temporarily to teach the odd lesson or I should consider myself sacked in some strange volunteering way.

Whole thing is driving me nuts. I may have a wee online breakdown. It’s a slow week in General Discussion, I think OLO will cope.

Sancho, you misread. The contrast is between the smart, functional majority of women, and the stupid militant feminists. Get it right.

Your summary in the second paragraph is correct.

Men are required to fix their mistakes, however….

If the CSA call centre cannot get it right, get referred to a CSO, who can’t get it right (turns up late, even). Make written complaints. Get a COAT officer “explaining” while showing you and giving you a copy of the excel output that demonstrate incompetence in adding up. Escalate eventually to the State Manager, who most definitely has authority to fix it. Be rebuffed. Re-explain to the State Manager the exact nature and extent of the error, who made it, when, and delineate the section of the Act giving her the explicit power to make any such correction. Be ignored. Be garnished.

It’s not just stupidity, that was merely the lower echelons. It’s not just incompetence, that was pretty much caricatured by the Change of Assessment Team. It’s not lack of power or procedure, as the State Manager (formerly Registrar) has the explicit power to fix errors of any magnitude.
It can only be a personal and ideological objection to doing so.

That is not acceptable in public servants.

There is no need to complain. The highest power needed was involved. She was incompetent, or complicit. She threatened court, her call. I would love to hear her claim incompetence (boo-hoo, poor her). She was the first occupant of the “Departure Lounge” position, and was well paid to make public threats while looking for a new job.

Personally, I hope the twits who did it are seconded back on their own time to countersign the cheques and apology (to the kids) that will one day be required. I hope they get sacked from their current positions due to the extended leave they will require for court attendance. They don’t deserve the super they earned while acting incompetently.

Not so much afraid of women as the bizarre excesses “feminism” commits while failing to help women, snouts in the trough all the while.

Rustopher

Pied Piper: Yes, it is the kids who suffer. They don’t suffer because of objections to CSA procedure, they suffer because CSA is too self-important to humbly fix mistakes in timely manner and get on with the job. As I have said, if the CSA were simply shut down and those “senior and experienced” staff left to find real jobs, the money could be spent on supporting children.

If payers won’t pay, employing thousands at high wages to make them has been shown to not help.
Hence, our government should help children directly, rather than making the “help” dependent on ideologically-driven and unsuccessful attempts to coerce. The CSA aren’t there to help you. They are there to have coffee breaks and punish the mythical “deadbeat dad”. Time has shown they get little out of reluctant payers, but their wages are guaranteed.

Rusty, you didn't happen to play football when you were a young fella, perchance?

C J Morgan, "Rusty, you didn't happen to play football when you were a young fella, perchance?"

Not the most original pick-up line.

Rusty C wrote, "The CSA aren't there to help you. They are there to have coffee breaks and punish the mythical deadbeat dad".

Master replies: Just a quick google shows the CSA, in 2007, had 797,978 paying parents on their books. Funny about that Rusty, while you're whining with typical, embittered language encased in the usual PC dogma of the men's sites I've seen over the last few days, 797,978 - - -

I'll repeat the number for the brain damaged men from the various "men's collectives" - - -

797,978

That's 797,978 parents, male and female, are helping their dependents via child support through the CSA.

Poor ol' Rusty "believes" the thousands (probably) of public servants involved in the administration of this are there to have "coffee breaks and punish the mythical deadbeat dad".

Rusty, public servants administer "LEGISLATION". They administer the "LAW". The laws they administer are - - - - -

NOT MADE BY "THEM".

If you don't like rulings that have been made against you, then your beef is with the LAWMAKERS. But I suspect such a concept goes over your head, judging by your language which blames "FEMALES ONLY".

By the way "MYTHICAL? ? ? ? ? ?" deadbeat dads? So I guess the ignorant neanderthal who bashed his child to near death, then killed himself (it's all in the news today) is just a "MYTH". There's plenty of deadbeat parents "BOTH" male and female.