3 April

Pensioner, living alone, quoted in the news today. “How a person can live on $67 a day, this is supposed to be the land of plenty. Plenty for who? Not for us," he said. "Our generation, we worked hard and all the parties, Labor and Liberal, have neglected us." The voice of entitlement? Newstart people didn’t even get the energy cash splash, to help cover power costs, and they’re often raising families. And their allowance is way below the agenda pension. Every generation works hard their whole lives, I’m so sick of that one. Why didn’t they save some money? They spent the lot at the cheapest time in world history, and expected the pension to fund their entire comfortable retirement.