During the last 21 months the government has left thousands of pensioners significantly worse off — while reaping millions of dollars in savings from payments. New rules right the wrong, but nobody has held the government to account says Ava Hubble.
Pensioner
Eva Cox: There are pensioners and then there are pensioners…
Before we move down the track of a universal rise to pensions, we need to think through whether this is best use of money, writes Eva Cox.
Pensioners, policy and practicalities
People on the aged pension are an interest group like any other. Their claims to taxpayer dollars should be evaluated, like any others, critically, and based on evidence, writes Bernard Keane.
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It’s hard to imagine that depriving old people of money will be anything but a plus for the Rudd government.
Pensioners can’t see the Budget benefits for the myopia
It’s amusing (or sickening, for those with weak stomachs) to have pensioners stripping in protest, but this is a powerful lobby group that is, courtesy of our demographics, growing remorselessly, writes Bernard Keane.
