PLEASE READ AND PASS ON

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 each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in Australia will have this message. 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 effective 31/12/14.


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!

If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.

If you wonder why the above individuals are asking for your help look at the figures below.

REMUNERATION – SPECIFIED STATUTORY OFFICES Date of Effect 1 July 2014 Specified Statutory Office Base Salary (per annum) Total Remuneration for office (per annum)

Chief of the Defence Force >

Commissioner of Taxation >   

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Customs And Border

Protection Service >   

Auditor-General for Australia > 

Australian Statistician > $469,150 - $670,210 “PAY FREEZE, NOT FAIR. SOB, SOB”

Salaries of retired Prime Minister and Politicians Office Additional salary (%) Salary as of 1 July

Prime Minister 160   

$507,338

Deputy Prime Minister 105   

Treasurer 87.5   

$365,868

Leader of the Opposition 85.0   

$360,990

House of Reps Speaker 75.0   

$341,477

Leader of the House 75.0   

$341,477

Minister in Cabinet 72.5   

$336,599

Parliamentary secretary 25.0   

$243,912

Other ministers 57.5 

$307,329

Shadow minister 25.0 

$243,912

Source: Remuneration Tribunal

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Politicians are paid peanuts compared to some in the public service. University chancellors get around $1 million a year.

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Feb 7^th, 2015 at 10:04pm:


Swagman wrote on Feb 7^th, 2015 at 11:19pm:


Strange that you would both choose academics to compare salaries with. Considering they get paid peanuts compared to those in the private business world it is a bit of an ideological own goal.

Ian Narev CEO of the Commonwealth Bank gets paid $7.8m a year. All for running a Bank with a 100 year old brand that thanks to a government guarantee has pretty much a license to print money.