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

 

[craigchivell]

I support all the current petitions

 

[rustycu]

RE: Self serve checkout's . The major super markets should give the user's 5-10 % off there grocery items for doing there job for them ! THANKS L N .

 

[craigchivell]

Support all your petitions.

 

[joroma]

NURSING HOMES: THESE ARE RUN BY SO CALLED 'NON-PROFIT' ORGANISATIONS. MY LEFT FOOT!
WHY IS THERE NO TRANSPARENCY ON WHAT THEY ARE SPENDING ON FOOD? WHY HAS THE LABOUR GOVT NOT MADE IT MANDATORY FOR THESE ORGANISATION WHO MAKE A PROFIT, TO SHOW TO THE RESIDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES THE EXPENSES ON FOOD?

 

[Bev49]

Yes

 

[Cherduck]

Cheryl Ducker

 

[Jethrotull]

Keep up the great work,guys and girls… I have signed all of them… It’s a great initiative to let Government know that our thousands of pensioners disagree with what is happening to us..

 

[benaxb]

This is what I see.
I've typed in my name, age, email address and postcode but it won't allow me to sign now !!!!!

 

[Liz]

This is what I see.
I've typed in my name, age, email address and postcode but it won't allow me to sign now !!!!!


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Will it let you click the sign now button with your mouse or I am not sure on a phone. That should send it through. Hope this helps.

 

[Hollingworthlake]

I have suggested this before but feel it’s important. I believe the health system should allow for Pensioners to receive bulk billing with little or no gap. I am currently being charged a $40 gap each time I visit my doctor. I asked him why he didn’t bulk bill and he said that the ‘Clinic would not survive by bulk billing’. I don’t believe him because several friends are regularly bulk billed

 

[Hollingworthlake]

Thanks for the proposed challenging petitions
I've signed the four of them as I believe they are all a worthy cause.

I have also signed all petitions

 

[Gazman]

Sorry,l don't agree. Waiting in a long queue isn't fun either. There should be a choice.

Well, Ebby, the problem is that they are going to phase out everything but self-service checkouts. You'll get to wait in queues to pay for your items. Funny isn't it, you get the same discount whether you scan your items or a store employee does it. Now if we got double the discount by self-scanning, I think we'd all do it!
Just a thought.

 

[Ebby]

Well, Ebby, the problem is that they are going to phase out everything but self-service checkouts. You'll get to wait in queues to pay for your items. Funny isn't it, you get the same discount whether you scan your items or a store employee does it. Now if we got double the discount by self-scanning, I think we'd all do it!
Just a thought.

You have a good point there Gaz we should get an incentive for doing their work

 

[andraeca]

Signed all four.
We need to add our collective voices to important campaigns such as these so they can be heard loud and clear, and noticed by the decision makers we elect.

 

[havingadoggyday]

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

I am only 63 and ALSO TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED .Is that how you spell it?

 

[havingadoggyday]

I think they should do away with self serve checkouts. Soon there will be no staff in supermarkets. I receive no discount for doing my own checkout on my groceries. Had to wait ages in an Aldi today, they had only one checkout open the rest were self checkout.

Yep to all the Ladies fanatics.....they r doing the same as the other two biggies

 

[havingadoggyday]

Yep to all the Ladies fanatics.....they r doing the same as the other two biggies

aldies....my phone keeps changing to ladies.???

 

[havingadoggyday]

Digital ID is already here. People can elect to have their driver's licence on the phone. Also, banking on their phone. You don't have to do either. You can still get a hard copy of your driver's licence to carry in your wallet. Plus, you can still get hard copies of bank statements for your savings or credit account. Going digital isn't mandatory. Some people may not even have an adequate mobile phone to support these software programmes as well.

It is if you bank at Macquarie!I was told only digital as we only print in paper once a year after 30th June.Took out my substantial amount of money to another bank.Simples

 

[Penny4]

It is if you bank at Macquarie!I was told only digital as we only print in paper once a year after 30th June.Took out my substantial amount of money to another bank.Simples

Fair enough!

 

[Phantom55]

the pensions of the aged population all get into circulation very quickly, in fact the pension doesn't even last the fortnight for many, It would make sense to increase the pension as it would get into circulation and ease the pressure on the economy ...better than giving grants in lump sums to various groups who waste a lot of money because its aplenty......the key to welfare is to get the payments flowing throughout the community in the way of jobs and services which in turn create circulation of funds