The most poignant point in the article is this one:

'Those in greatest need of the aged pension remaining at 67 such as small business owners, manual labourers and women, will be hardest hit.'

Saddest of all is that the so-called Liberals were originally supposed to be the party that represented small business, the self-employed, the individual entrepreneurs. Now they're being sold out.

Small business people are either too busy, too overworked or too capital-strapped to build up decent superannuation. So too with manual labourers whose working life is marked by the insecurity of casual labour.

So too with women, especially those born before 1970, who were still brought up under the traditional system that measured a woman's worth almost entirely in terms of her role as a wife and mother. Not much chance of building a decent superannuation portfolio when your working life has been repeatedly interrupted in service to others.

Unfortunately, those who would be best equipped to start a Boomers Party are those who don't need it - the ones who have been on the right side of Keating's outrageously unfair superannuation system of the last 20 years. The ones who really need a Boomers Party will be too busy working into their 80s or till they drop, whichever comes first.

Surely the retirement age should be raised for women only. Women already live 6 years longer than men, take more time out of the workforce, visit doctors more often and retire earlier than men. Why the fcuk should men work til they drop?

My sister-in-law isn't even 40 yet but has already worked more than 10 years LESS than my brother. My brother started a trade while she spent FIVE years at uni. Being the fully indoctrinated feminist she always said she wanted a career. To which my brother always said he would be happy to stay home. Of course, as soon as she popped out the first child everything changed. Years out of the workforce, more children, endless years of part-time work. Meanwhile my brother does a job he doesn't really like because he has a family to support. Story of men's lives in Australia 2014.

What a joke. Maybe if we didnt waste so much money on women's 'education' men wouldn't have to work to we drop. We all know when push comes to shove no women will work til 70. They will all still end up on disability support at 50 just like they do now.