Hi Foxy,

Pensioners always do better under Labor governments than Conservatives. Like with Medicare, Conservative woulds abolish or downgrade pensions in favour of private retirement provision, given half a chance, but like Medicare the old folks are too popular. One of the ironies is old people in the main vote Conservative.

Having said that, I believe we can do better for people in retirement than simply pay out "welfare" in the form of aged pensions. Unfortunately Australia made too many mistakes with national superannuation, and its going to take years more before any such scheme could replace the aged pension completely. Many Greens like myself are not great fans of direct welfare, but we see it as absolutely necessary to sustain people at times. Most prefer work to welfare, but if there is no work, or circumstances prevents one from working, then people have to be supported, no question.

p/s You may have read my years of "Seniors National Service" and now I have invented a place called 'Sunny Gulag' located in Siberia for the old folks to chuff off to. Well what can I say, just laugh.

Paul,

The reason older people vote conservative is that they realise that their savings and investments do better under them than Labor.

So why did the Coalition lose the last election
and the then treasurer Josh Frydenberg get tossed out?

Because the yobbos do much better under Labor, & there are more yobbos than pensioners. Labor are about to import a great bunch of them to shore up their vote.

Then of course there are the teals who are stupid enough to believe the global warming scam, or smart enough to profit from it.

God help us.

Paulnazi,

Considering that Labor loves having "summits" from which nothing of any use appears.

So far all we are hearing is what the unions want which means that business attendees are essentially there only to lend some legitimacy.

Oh ye of little faith.

Why the negativity when the current government has
only been in power for such a short time. Why not
take a serious look as to the reasons the Coalition were
kicked out?

Give the current government a chance. They just may
surprise us all.