Hello dear Members!

I hope you're all well

As most of you know, the Seniors Discount Club is a growing online community for all Australians over the age of 60. We have been around for three years now and feel incredibly lucky to say we now have over 320,000 members!

With our online community growing, and with each and every one of you sharing some of your day-to-day struggles, we have decided to launch a few petitions. We believe with the number of members we have, there is potential for us, as a community, to hopefully inspire some change. We have just four petitions live at the moment, and we'd be more than happy to launch some more if there are any more topics you as a community feel passionate about. If you're interested in seeing the petitions we have live currently, you can see them below:

• Stop the transition to all self-serve checkouts: We think this one speaks for itself! For many of our members, their local supermarkets are quickly transitioning to fully self-served. We believe this is not only causing job losses, but makes the weekly shopping so much more challenging for Australians over 60... Not to mention, how fiddly and frustrating they can be to use! We are petitioning to keep traditional checkouts in our stores.
• Strengthen Aged Care Support, Funding, and Transparency: Sadly, I think I speak on behalf of most of our members when I say the current state of aged care in Australia is extremely concerning. We are petitioning to improve the quality of aged care provided to Australian seniors in facilities across the nation. At the end of the day, our population is ageing and if we continue to turn a blind eye to aged care support, Australians are in for a frightening future.
• Increase the Australian Aged Pension for a Better, Fairer Future: We hear every single day Australian news outlets discuss how Aussies are struggling with the current cost-of-living... But how about our pensioners trying to put food on their table, keep their lights and heating on, and pay for their medicine? The cost-of-living crisis is hitting Australian pensioners the hardest, and there is not enough being done about it.
• Protect the Right to Use Cash and Ensure Financial Inclusivity: Where do I begin?! Without cash, so many Australians suffer. Not every Australian has access to digital payment methods and banking and removing cash, and bank branches is making anything to do with money so much more challenging for Australian seniors. Cash should be kept alive for all Australians.

We know these four topics are just scraping the surface so if there is anything else you'd like us to put a petition together for, please let us know in the comments below.

As with all petitions, the more signatures we get on these, the louder we become! So please share this with all of your family and friends, whether they are a member of the Seniors Discount Club or not! The number of supporters in the top right corner of each petition will be manually updated by our team as often as we can, but our goal is to get 100,000 signatures on every petition!

I cannot thank you all enough for your ongoing support of us and our community. We appreciate each and every one of you!

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Have a great day!
Maddie

 

[novezar]

Thank U "Suzannerose". I didn't know wot to do either. Now I have signed all 4.

 

[Drew62]

should only be your name to sign a petition

 

[oldiebutgoodie]

How do I sign the petition

 

[Bianca]

I totally agree with what you are doing, but will not put: my full name, address & DOB in this day & age where those who know advise for older persons not to do so.

 

[Toyo]

If you don't want to use a self serve checkout don't use it but don't stuff it for others who do use them I am over 70 and I use self serve frequently. Why? 1. Because I don't want to wait in line while people have a conversation at the checkout about their day. 2. Because I can be in and out and don't have to wait in line I only buy what I need when grocery shopping and I don't want to wait behind a huge trolley load. 3. I don't get mistakes made by the checkout operator that I then have to get fixed at the service desk. So all in all how about we just let there be some self serve and some checkout operators everyone has different needs so why is it a priority to get rid of self serve.

 

[Bev49]

Yes

 

[Margi Stewart]

Please explain how I go about signing your petitions as I can’t find out where to sign. Thanks

 

[tfours]

I agree. It's poor for us oldies.

When does one become an "oldie?" I am 92 and still waiting

 

[Abby2]

Please explain how I go about signing your petitions as I can’t find out where to sign. Thanks

Click on the link below, it takes you two two pages, one you fill in your details then you click on another which you click on sign and its then done. You actually don't sign. By clicking on sign it signs for you.

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[Silla]

Or just scroll down to bottom of page

Thank you Susan Rose for letting us know how to vote , much appreciated. God bless

 

[Silla]

Thank you Susan Rose for letting us know how to vote , much appreciated. God bless

Sorry for spelling your name wrong Suzanne

 

[Bev49]

Keep cash

 

[marita2025]

CARE PACKAGES................
Providers are A BUSINESS and the government is placing requirments on claims that feed them. I was charged $884 from my package for a social worker to come out 3x, to do her paperwork at my place and I was charged for her time. Apart from that NO OTHER service was provided
The same goes for OTs and physio assessments...They in turn have their preferred companies that charge 10x more than what you can get the equipment or service for. e.g. A pick up stick $15 at aldies. I was charged $88.45.
Then the provider charges an admin fee and 12% on all purchases.
ITS A RIPP OFF and Im so angry.

 

[Abby2]

CARE PACKAGES................
Providers are A BUSINESS and the government is placing requirments on claims that feed them. I was charged $884 from my package for a social worker to come out 3x, to do her paperwork at my place and I was charged for her time. Apart from that NO OTHER service was provided
The same goes for OTs and physio assessments...They in turn have their preferred companies that charge 10x more than what you can get the equipment or service for. e.g. A pick up stick $15 at aldies. I was charged $88.45.
Then the provider charges an admin fee and 12% on all purchases.
ITS A RIPP OFF and Im so angry.

Unbelievable - an ageist government

 

[Towing]

I have a lady who takes me shopping. If no ordinary checkouts are open she asks a staff member at the self service section to help me process them. That way they end up serving me anyway. I asked about job losses and was told they were doing other things in the supermarket like checking and filling shelves or ordering more stock. However another staff member told us her hours had been cut

 

[ClancetteCLIFT]

Wbere do you sign the partition??

 

[ToniaKisliakov]

AUSTRALIA USED TO BE THE LUCKY COUNTRY UNTIL LABOUR AND THE GREENS CAME IN

Petition for getting rid of this stupid Federal Government and to deregister those parties that are fast moving Australian into the dark ages.

Whyy not a petition to get rid of this stupid federal government that allows high power costs, much higher cost of living, renewabales that do not work when raining, won't hear about nuclear energy, lets out criminals to beat up old people and murder them, tries to cause racism with that voice and whose PM goes on a holiday to Queensland during an outage where people will be scammerc
Cash is king of course especially after Friday's worldwide outage controlled by one company -what utter stupidity is that?

 

[ToniaKisliakov]

Welcome to the UNLUCKY country called Australia

I have a lady who takes me shopping. If no ordinary checkouts are open she asks a staff member at the self service section to help me process them. That way they end up serving me anyway. I asked about job losses and was told they were doing other things in the supermarket like checking and filling shelves or ordering more stock. However another staff member told us her hours had been cut

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[BeautifulMousey]

Yes, I want to be a part of it. Please guide me how to do it
And don’t treat me as a 7yo, as the 7yo knows more technology than I do. I am 78yo, a dinosau

Gamiry, go to the heading of all the 4 petitions above and click on them, it will take you to a page for each petition and then you just put in your details and hit send. I hope I am answering you correctly. That is how it works on my computer.

We don't get send on the mobile phone

 

[shik]

I agree if we can't get cash out ,how on earth are we able to buy our food, pay rent, buy anything at all, when we don't have the means to pay otherwise.Bring back the old days,and the way we lived and grew all the vegies we used. Shirley Kilby