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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
        <link>http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?messageID=20744230#20744230</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Aussie govt gives AUD 1000 a month as unemployment allowance. Many aussies work for few months (or years), save a decent amount and then travel internationally.<br />...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:48:01 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>jayanraj</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="jive-quote">Official unemployment rate is @ 5% but actual figure is much LOWER that it.</div>
Where's the source reference?]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:54:14 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I did NO TIPPING in Australia. Aussies get healthy salaries and so they don't expect tipping like in <i>other</i> countries. Even non-Australians including people with WHVs earn AUD 15+ in restaurants, guest houses, farms etc. And if you work in Mining...]]></description>
        

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        <jf:author>jayanraj</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In big cities, the tipping system works well enough in the US, allowing places flexibility to staff up at weekends without committing to crippling award rates. Meal + tax and tips is still cheaper in NYC than Melbourne, Sydney or Perth for equivalent...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:50:02 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>RayCCroc</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Over-servicing can be a real pain, I concur.  Having to assure the wait-staff that everything is okay can be just as tiresome as not having someone to ask for some service.  But serving is not rocket science .. so I am bewildered why so many places get...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:46:47 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>ianw6705</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I found I was being constantly interrupted in the US whilst eating, to ask how everything was going. At one restaurant/bar type place, I actively told my waitress her tip would be bigger if she left me in peace to eat. I assured her if I wanted anything,...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:27:58 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 13, 2013</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Commissioner</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
        <link>http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?messageID=20702533#20702533</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I've usually found good and fast service in the US. Part of that reason may be the tipping system but it isn't necessarily better than I have received elsewhere and the prices are usually the same or less than many western countries (having added 30% for...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:35:01 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Feb 13, 2013</jf:date>
        <jf:author>markfawkner</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
        <link>http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?messageID=20702521#20702521</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[That's pretty ugly skutr, I agree.<br />...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:29:52 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>ianw6705</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
        <link>http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?messageID=20702470#20702470</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Yeah, and sometimes the obligation can get up your goat.<br />...]]></description>
        

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        <jf:date>Feb 13, 2013</jf:date>
        <jf:author>skutr</jf:author>
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        <title>RE: Tipping culture in Australia</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Yes ... there are a lot of positions in the tip-heavy world (up-scale restaurants, five-star hotel, cruise ships, etc), where there are no wages, income is totally from tips - and large, and the jobs change hands for large sums (ie, there is a capital...]]></description>
        

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