12/08/2026
So claiming a pension is an "embarrassing admission of poverty"? How much more self entitled can you political animals get. You have shown by your actions to date that you don't give a rats arse about the average Australian, "real" people? People that have done an honest 45 years work, payed all their taxes and get the big "up yours" when they arrive in their senior years. Yet your perks continue loooooong after you leave office....
So the reality is this: The Politicians in power are changing the Pension Assets Test for everyone in Australia except themselves. This will negatively affect everyone who thought they had enough to retire on. It will also affect disability pensions, widow pensions and more. They are thinking of scrapping the Seniors Card. The Pension Assets Test was implemented on 1 January 2017.
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. To quote "George Orwell" all animals are equal, except pigs...........
Change the Entitlements 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.
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: The author is asking if you agree to this to copy and post this note on their page.This is one idea that really should be passed around because the rot has to stop somewhere.
Proposals to make politicians shoulder their share of the weight now that the Age of Entitlement is over:
1. Scrap political pensions.
Politicians can purchase their own retirement plan, just as most other working Australians are expected to do.
2. Retired politicians (past, present & future) participate in Centrelink. A Politician collects a substantial salary while in office but should receive no salary when they're out of office.
Terminated politicians under 70 can go get a job or apply for Centrelink unemployment benefits like ordinary Australians. Terminated politicians under 70 can negotiate with Centrelink like the rest of the Australian people.
3. Funds already allocated to the Politicians' retirement fund be returned immediately to Consolidated Revenue. This money is to be used to pay down debt they created which they expect us and our grandchildren to repay for them.
4. Politicians will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Politicians pay will rise by the lower of, either the CPI or 3%.
5. Politicians lose their privileged health care system and participate in the same health care system as ordinary Australian people.
I.E. Politicians either pay for private cover from their own funds or accept ordinary Medicare.
6. Politicians must equally abide by all laws they impose on the Australian people.
7. All contracts with past and present Politicians men/women are void as of 30 June
The Australian people did not agree to provide perks to Politicians, that burden was thrust upon them.
Politicians devised all these contracts to benefit themselves.
Serving in Parliament is an honour not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so our politicians should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
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.
Don't you think it's time?
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX Parliament and help bring fairness back into this country!
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So claiming a pension is an "embarrassing admission of poverty"? How much more self entitled can you political animals get. You have shown by your actions to date that you don't give a rats arse about the average Australian, "real" people? People that have done an honest 45 years work, payed all their taxes and get the big "up yours" when they arrive in their senior years. Yet your perks continue loooooong after you leave office....
