Comments on: Senate passes payrise for pensioners in its own good time http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/senate-passes-payrise-for-pensioners-in-its-own-good-time/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Julie http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/senate-passes-payrise-for-pensioners-in-its-own-good-time/#comment-23985 Julie Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23985 What a balanced and sensible article. it'sa pity that the opposition and the populists from radio and TV don't take the same measured approach. Also as Jenny Macklin says you will pit some pensioners against others if the pension is given to just a couple of categories. I can hear the cries " Where is mine" What a balanced and sensible article. it’sa pity that the opposition and the populists from radio and TV don’t take the same measured approach. Also as Jenny Macklin says you will pit some pensioners against others if the pension is given to just a couple of categories. I can hear the cries ” Where is mine”

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/23/senate-passes-payrise-for-pensioners-in-its-own-good-time/#comment-23986 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-23986 If the single aged pension is so bad that full single pensioners cannot live on it as admitted by many key members of the cabinet, then why not increase it as an emergency and perform a 'review' to deal with the 'problem' 'comprehensively'?<br /><br /> It is not as if the coffers are empty as was the case for Costello in 1996.<br /><br />It really is not your job to be spokesman for the Rudd government, Bernard Keane.<br /><br />Besides you don't get paid for it.........or do you? If the single aged pension is so bad that full single pensioners cannot live on it as admitted by many key members of the cabinet, then why not increase it as an emergency and perform a ‘review’ to deal with the ‘problem’ ‘comprehensively’?

It is not as if the coffers are empty as was the case for Costello in 1996.

It really is not your job to be spokesman for the Rudd government, Bernard Keane.

Besides you don’t get paid for it………or do you?

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