Pensions & Super: Contact Your MP

[Greynomad]

I received this today...
If it affects you, and you agree with the attached, copy the text, go to aph.gov.au, look up your local member under "Contact Senator or Member", paste it into the message space along with any added comments you wish to make and send it to your local MP, and maybe to Malcolm Turnbull, as well as all your contacts of pensionable age.
Maybe we could get a groundswell going...
(Feel free to edit it before forwarding - I did)
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> As a partially-self-funded retiree, I’m frustrated with Canberra’s continuous
> fiddle with Superannuation contributions and rule changes
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> Plus the measure to Re-balance the Pension Assets Test to be
> implemented on 1 January 2017.
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> So here's fair warning to all politicians of any persuasion, this group
> of aged voters may be about to make the greatest impact on any Federal
> election in history, ignoring them may be the start of a changed
> political environment in this country.
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> Change the Entitlements
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> I absolutely agree, if a pension isn't an entitlement, neither is
> theirs. They keep telling us that paying us an aged pension isn't
> sustainable.
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> Paying politicians all the perks they get is even less sustainable! The
> politicians themselves, in Canberra, brought it up, that the Age of
> Entitlements is over:
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> The author is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum
> of twenty people on their address list;
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> in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in
> Australia will have this message.
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> This is one idea that really should be passed around because the rot
> has to stop somewhere.
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> Proposals to make politicians shoulder their share of the weight now
> that the Age of Entitlement is over:
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> 1. Scrap political pensions.
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> Politicians can purchase their own retirement plan, just as most other
> working Australians are expected to do.
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> 2. Retired politicians (past, present & future) participate in Centrelink.
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> A Politician collects a substantial salary while in office but should
> receive no salary when they're out of office.
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> Terminated politicians under 70 can go get a job or apply for
> Centrelink unemployment benefits like ordinary Australians.
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> Terminated politicians over 70 can negotiate with Centrelink like the
> rest of the Australian people.
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> 3. Funds already allocated to the Politicians' retirement fund be
> returned immediately to Consolidated Revenue.
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> This money is to be used to pay down debt they created which they
> expect us and our grandchildren to repay for them.
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> 4. Politicians will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Politicians
> pay will rise by the lower of, either the CPI or 3%.
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> 5. Politicians lose their privileged health care system and participate
> in the same health care system as ordinary Australian people.
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> i.e. Politicians either pay for private cover from their own funds or
> accept ordinary Medicare.
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> 6. Politicians must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
> Australian people.
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> 7. All contracts with past and present Politicians men/women are void
> effective 31/12/16.
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> The Australian people did not agree to provide perks to Politicians,
> that burden was thrust upon them.
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> Politicians devised all these contracts to benefit themselves.
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> Serving in Parliament is an honour not a career.
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> Our politicians should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
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> If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, then it will only
> take three or so days for most Australians to receive the message.
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> Don't you think it's time?
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> Please do this if you can. Australia needs our help.
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> THIS IS HOW YOU FIX Parliament and help bring fairness back into this
> country!
>

[Peter and Sandra]

Love it! but the unemployment queues would increase as most of them would be unemployable!

[T1 Terry]

Is there one running for an addition to the ballot paper for both houses? I'd like the addition of a tick box marked "None of the above" in clear type at the bottom of the paper. I believe this would greatly reduce the number of donkey votes and actually make voters think before marking their ballot paper that they really do have a choice.
The secondary out come would be a truly clear message to all parties, pick your game up as this percentage of voters are not happy with any the choices they have been given.
The ultimate result would be a clear majority od the "None of the above" response resulting in a full 4 yr term of no politicians at all. This would return the budget to surplus and save the country from slipping any further down the drain as no more stupid thought bubble decision making would occur for at least 4 yrs and all the absolutely absurd ideas like reducing hard earned worker pensions while increasing political leech pensions would not occur for at least 4 yrs. The end result could even be a new crop of political leaders who were actually interested in getting Aust back on its feet rather than lining their pockets, a way to break the trend of not ticking the box at the bottom of the sheet for another 4 yr term.

Sound like a laughable idea that would never get an airing....... I didn't start the joke

[BruceS]

OK, maybe we can just read the thread and decide if we do as told in that first post?
The rest I'll leave there as 'comments' but perhaps we can leave it there?
Plenty of other Forums we can get into an argument in!!!
I'll leave it unlocked for now but ...........................???

[Mrcoolabah1au]

Good morning all

[BruceS]

Thread now locked!