Paul1405,
As a pointless & even less useful bureaudroid you should refrain from throwing stones in glass houses.
Your racist tendencies don't exactly endear you to any thinking people with integrity.
I think you're just starting to get worried about your Pension because you're waking up to the fact that you've done nothing to deserve one.
I hope it makes you wake up !

Paul as a spokesperson for the socialist Greens, We will work hard that they never rise to rule this Nation. You want control of peoples lives, instead of government serving people. You are the very totalitarian view that terrorises those of meagre existence. A pretense of compassion but promoting elitism that only the wealthy survive in your reality.

Dear Josephus,

We shall have to wait and see for the next election as
to who gets elected into parliament. As the old joke goes
( capturing the distrust most people feel for BOTH right
and left):

"It doesn't matter who you vote for, a politician always
gets in.

Achtung, Herr/Comrade Paul,

There is no difference in attitudes and inhumanity between Nazis and Communist; they are the enemies of all people. And, if you knew anything at all, you would know that the people you sneer at for being conservative were the first to get the chop under Hitler and his National SOCIALISTS. But, of course, you do not know anything. You will never learn anything. You will continue making a fool of yourself, just like your Green heroes are doing in parliament.

You admit that your ratty posts are meant to get people "up in arms". That's why most of us do not think they are worth reading: you just need a reminder every now and again of what a fool you are.

Nobody with a modicum of sense would say that Age Pensioners were in a "privileged welfare position". There is nothing 'privileged' about living on any pension. Only people like you, totally detached from reality, think that it's a privilege to struggle to pay for the necessities of life. Get onto SBS on demand, look at 'Could you survive on the breadline'.

Try coming up with examples of, "these welfare elites... living high on the hog in their million dollar mansion, flash cars and more money than they need stuffed in the bank. All supported by an unsustainable system".

And try to get through to your uneducated brain that the system is NOT "unsustainable". The system has been operating for 80 years, in times when Australia was a lot less wealthy than it is today.

You could also forgo your obviously elitist lifestyle for a while and live on a pension to see how "privileged" it is.

I must say, though, that you do us all a favour by showing us just how bad and nasty people of the Green persuasion are, and why they get only 8% of the vote

And the tone of this discussion
plummets once again
It would be great to see civility -
But who knows where and when?

On the subject of age pensions, I seem to remember that there was a fund set up to cover this cost to which all taxpayers contributed.
Anyone remember it and what happened to it?