Yeah, it's lame the whole "you have to earn $10 000 to be poor" thing.

We got centrelink when Al was made redundant, so our income was...$0. It really sucked because he couldn't get a job, as he was made redundant when he was 62 and no one wants to employ someone who is 62.

Our house isn't worth much either (esp. at the time, because we didn't own the block) because it's so...out of the way/strange/doesn't have an access road/sewage/rubbish collection/scheme water. Lols.