Rhrostry, what on earth are you rabbiting on about with regard pensioners? I'm an aged pensioner and I can assure you there are going to be no cuts to my pension. The only financial change in my life will be the $7 co payment to my GP, which is capped at $70 /year.
As for the increase in pension age which doesn't take effect for 21 years, well no one will be forced to work until they are 70, that is just the age they can apply for their pension. People who are unable or unwilling to wait until they are 70 can retire on their super. After all, that is what they having been making payments for every payday for 40/50 years.
From reading around the blogs and Facebook it appears we have turned into a nation of whingers, bludgers and spoilt brats, a description previously reserved for the poms.

"Budgets are like plumbing. If everything works as it should, then no-one takes much notice. But get it wrong, and things start to smell bad fast."

Yup,

That's why all of Labor's budgets stank like week old dead fish.

With Labor's budgets spending 10% more than it gets in revenue, any attempt to claim economic competence is laughable.

Until the first Coalition budget is passed the country is still running on the laws and budget from Labor. The complete stuff up of the economy is squarely 100% Labor's fault.

a description previously reserved for the poms.
Big Nana,
precisely & look how Pommieland ended up. With a few thousand tonnes of luck Australia may just be salvageable.

No negative gearing.
No superannuation lurks for the well off.
No pollie super till 70.
No pollie super above 9%.
No salary packaging.
No private health insurance rebate.
No money to private schools.
No giving money to carbon polluters, take money off them.
No trust funds.
No offshoring.
No fuel tax exemptions.
More GST on fatty foods, soft drink, takeaway etc.
Proper alcohol volume tax.
Increase capital gains tax.
Inheritance tax.
Land tax, especially unused land.
Financial transactions tax.
80-90% tax rate for income above $1 million per annum.

Budget surplus in minutes.

mikk,
I'm with you on that one.

Big Nana.
You are wrong! i.e., pensions are currently indexed to average male wages!
Starting with Abbott's next term, pensions will be indexed to lower rate inflation, something you seemed to have missed?
It's only a matter of time before you pay the GST on everything; and sooner rather than later, at a higher rate?
But, you are well off B.N., with regard to struggling families!
It's made doubly harder with rising costs and lower subsidies.
And this while welfare for the rich remains largely untouched!
In 3-5 years, tax breaks on rich super, will cost more than the aged pension!
The Granny killing GST was introduced to make up for the tax we were no longer getting, from Australian corporations, who had off-shored their operations!
And we now import 91%+ of our oil, at a cost to the consumer, of 26 billions per.
And the more we pay for fully imported energy, the less there is for discretionary spending.
Ditto, with increasingly unaffordable housing, the more we pay for mortgages/rent, the less there is for discretionary spending; and indeed, in regard to Sydney based pensioners, a shoe sized bedsit, now costs more than the single pension!
But then Big Nana, there are pensioners and pensioners!
Not all pensions are government pensions, and some of these folk, when they take a sleep break away from the pokies or other equally expensive pastimes; can go home to a veritable mansion on five acres?
And are able to afford, private health cover, tourist medicine, a full solar array and bore water, shade/glass houses, chooks, a couple of Dexters, a very large very comprehensive vege garden, rotary hoes and what have you; virtually self sufficiency, a couple of beamers and what have you!
Sorry Big Nana, I don't believe you are the real deal, but rather, someone more like Big Gina, and just getting by on twenty or thirty billions of inherited wealth, or a generous and fully indexed to your salary level, public service pension?
It must be a struggle, eh?
Mk for PM!
Rhrosty.