I know there are a few seniors on here with grandchildren travelling interstate for uni. I wonder what else is available for actual seniors

Gosh that is pretty amazing but seemingly kept very quiet.

no wonder we are going down the gurgler.

Hmm gotta wonder if all students are eligible or just certain nationalities! Pity this wasn't on offer when my kids had to leave for the city to go to uni, but then again he/we wasn't/weren't eligible for anything much, which sucked considering those living in the city didn't have to fork out for accommodation, food etc coz they could travel from their parent's homes every day

My, oh, my! Things change with every government that WE, the voting citizens of Australia, elect to work for (sometimes against) us. Let’s start with that and take into consideration how things change with each government WE elect, how they give or take from us in taxes to pay for what we can avail ourselves of. I’ll say it again - governments of EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD do not have bottomless money pits.

Why do so many on this site bring ‘nationalities’ into this ALL THE TIME? Every single one living in this country is of ‘mixed race, and culture’. Born here DOESN’T mean a ‘true Aussie’. Get on a ‘heritage’ website and trace back YOUR OWN BACKGROUND and you will soon define your heritage and status. We call ourselves, our children and grandchildren, Australians but there is no TRUE Australian except, perhaps, the aboriginal people & even they were said to have come from ‘overseas’.

Please, someone put me right, if you can, and define what is an Australian, a TRUE Australian. Some of us have married someone from another country but our children have been born here - that makes them (and us) Australians, or so we believe, but we are actually Australian citizens. Define a true Australian, please, and if you can then I might change my perception of an ‘Australian’. It not good enough to think that by marrying a ‘citizen’ of Australia you, your spouse and your children then AUTOMATICALLY become Australians.

My husband and I were both born in India, we became engaged there in 1964 and came out here in 1965 (me) & 1967 (my husband). We are Anglo-Indians but became Australian CITIZENS in 1972. As Anglo-Indians we, personally, have Scottish, Irish, English AND Indian blood, as the result of soldiers from those countries marrying Indian women, and I have read that they were actually ‘paid’ to marry Indian women. So, I say, again, trace your heritage and then talk.

And, just by the way, my husband was the only one earning any money while I stayed home to look after our 3 children while WE PAID every cent for them to go through school and university, including their fees, their books, transport and food every day. There was no other choice that we were entitled to from the government of the time. In fact, if I can remember back 57 years (my eldest son’s age now) we were given the grand sum of about $2 A MONTH for each child in the way of child endowment as it was called. Think what the current parent receives - this is just the change of the times and availability of money. Every government tries to balance the books, sometimes to their own advantage but also in our favour in various ways.

Stop putting a derogatory context on ‘foreigners’, as so many here call them, and sit down and find out who your own ancestors actually were first, before posting here. There are thousands and thousands of very good, talented and educated ‘foreigners’, but people still tar us with their own dirty brushes. Just for example, many, many of our doctors are so very well educated - do YOU give them credit or do YOU still refer to them as ‘foreigners’ without due credit?

I’m sorry but this attitude really riles me.

Suzanne rose said:

I know there are a few seniors on here with grandchildren travelling interstate for uni. I wonder what else is available for actual seniors

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Probably not very much. I think we are the forgotten generation.