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

 

[Davidrenn]

Add me to all 4 please

 

[wendell]

Where are the petitions so I can sign?

I don’t know either Can you answer please

 

[Monks]

Totally agree with the lot hope we have some success with it cheers

 

[addingko]

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

I did as well.

 

[Sue Cook]

I have signed all 4

 

[Luckyus]

When you click on each heading 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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I doubt that this government will care until the election cycle, then we'll be besieged with all sorts of false bullshit instantly forgotten till the next cycle.

 

[Dinh Dung]

I really enjoyed this article, it addresses my current concerns. Thanks for bringing this up!

 

[Babybird]

Count me in

 

[Janice Stewart]

I am more than willing to sign the papers, If you could Please let me know how??
Thanks
Jan

 

[rooboy33]

signed all now i fell better

 

[Andrew]

How can I sign without a computer?. Can you add my name to the petitions?,

 

[jtho2908]

I would really like some consideration given to making the difference between single and couple pensions fairer.
Whether single or couple there is little or no difference in cost of rent/mortgage, rates, utilities, insurance, yet singles have to struggle by on significantly less. It’s like salt being rubbed into a wound when pension increases are announced and couples get still more than singles!
I am grateful for the pension but this inequity should be looked at. I wonder how it was worked out in the first place. I’ve seen friends, whose spouses have passed away or gone into care, really struggle as their income drops so much. That’s when they realise how unfair it is for singles!

 

[saundy]

That is very well written and hit the nail right on the head, you use it same amount of power to heat and cool your home the same amount of petrol/gas in your vehicles I could go on but I would say you get the picture.
The pension, as far as I am concerned, is something most of us have worked for 30 years + I for one say we deserve a age pension what the government needs to do is make it as easy as possible to get the age pension instead of all the B S that you have to go through, for goodness sake cut out the crap.

 

[ToniaKisliakov]

Support Seniors not just pensioners as govt criteria sucks
Anyone who has worked (in my case since I was 18 years told) should rbeeligible for a pension and money should not be diverted to pay $82 million terrorists but stay in Australia for seniors

 

[suesmum]

I am 84 + 4 days - I sure am confused now - but must admit I agree with the 4 petitions even if I do not know how to sign them via my phone.

 

[GrannyJA!]

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

Ditto

 

[ClancetteCLIFT]

I agree. The self service card only is not always reliable. and you have to wait for a staff member to fix it regularly. I woyld prefer using cash or coins anyday!! B#$@!Abonesy keeps changing the goal posts.
This morning I thought it eould be a good idea to go to Woolies to get some groceries. The whole store was full, check out queues were really long. Staff were doing there best to do their job!!

call me stupid but I don't know how to do the signatures. Do you need a mobile phone? I WANT TO SIGN ALL PLEASE.

Seniors should be given better care, more money for their pensions, be able to be independent and get to join in the same activities as other pensioners in the aged care facility.
A#@!&% is an idiot.

 

[trishdavie]

I don’t know either Can you answer please

 

[trishdavie]

This has to be one of the most confusing sites I’ve come across !
looking to sign petitions, enter competitions, impossible to find the secret ways in.

and the ads jump all over the place, pushing information I’m searching right off the page.

any plans to make it more user friendly? It’s quite ironic that I feel so old & incompetent & excluded on a site for seniors !!!

 

[barrymacca]

maybe we form a pensioners union and go on strike to forward our claims and to fix the retirement village rorts