any advertising thrust at me.
snake,
straying from the threat a bit but the incessant ABC promos are as bad, if not worse.
Re retirement at 70, if we can reduce the number of hangers on then retirement age can be kept down also. Those bureaucrats who are on 150 grand a year plus costing us just as much again in travel allowances & other benefits are the ones we should be targetting because they're the ones using up our funding resources & they mostly vote ALP.
So, to keep retirement down we need to keep Labor down. It can't get any more simple than that. Anyone who can't see that is partly responsible for the age increase.
Of course the pollies' salaries need to be cut as well. I'd say the politician who promotes that will win the next election.

Individual

I have no argument with that !

Wow, the font of all economic knowledge .... an unemployed, elderly ex butcher. Ha ha ha.

Nhoj,
I suppose you were trying to refer to a fountain of knowledge, which is much preferable to a fountain of your dribble.

Anyhow, nonsense aside, there's an apparent shortage of jobs so I'd imagine if people retired at 67 it would be a boost to employment. But first things first, we must take the unemployable & make it clear to them that no matter what they are required to lift at some of their weight. By serving a two year national service , young adults will have a more pragmatic & responsible outlook which in turn is better for all.
Just because lefties believe the country owes them a living does not mean the rest of us thinks that way. Don't expect the system which fosters morons to last much longer.

My clock radio is still set to the ABC, as it is the strongest station out here.

The morning I had some reason to be up early, & set the thing. They were having a talk back session on the budget. It was quite a surprising that about half of the callers were in favor of the budget.

With most call back on the ABC being far left it was reassuring that so many of their listeners felt it was necessary to wind in spending, & make some reduction in entitlements.

Individual, so you're willing to pay the extra tax required to fund all this compulsory 2 years of national service?