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Submitted by George on Tue, 05/22/2018 - 13:59

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In doing so, he said that, on this basis, some of the matters which could be considered for future policy initiatives included subjecting the family home to means testing as a fixed value of average earnings, significantly increasing rental assistance for age pensions and enhancing incentives for part-time work in retirement.
Does this mean, that the proposer is expecting "retirees" to work, to pay, for so that the government/politicians have more money to spend, whereas the "retired ' worker" is subsidizing his income to work until when?
Absolute crazy, either you are retired or you are working or forced to work, because there is no structure in the retirement for the aging Australian citizen) for how long will the politicians try to penalized the elderly?
Any answers? i am talking about so called retirees over 65 -70 who have a home, pay no rent but the council, water, garbage fees etc which all incorporate one levy or the other for the respective so called government service. i wonder where we finish??? I can't see any publication on governments savings for service for foreign aid, consulting firms, arts grants etc and you name it?!!!

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