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

 

[gamiry]

Or just scroll down to bottom of page

ALL DONE THANK YOU

 

[Geoff01]

Thanks SDC, all worthy subjects and hopefully they will be successful. I have signed all 4 and now sit back with abated breath to wait for the outcomes. Good luck.

 

[LeahI]

Tech error here. It doesn't like my name. ? Will have to try on computer.

 

[Robbo3006]

It won't go thru, keeps returning toy name in red. Pain in the ass program.

 

[mylittletibbies]

Worked for me too

Me too

 

[helooney3]

I was about to find who I could write to in the hope of exposing My Aged Care so I am very happy that you have organised these petitions. I have been waiting 8 months for a My Aged Care package upgrade that should have come through at the latest mid-December. The waiting time keeps changing from “less than one month” to “1-3 months”backwards and forwards. We have had to cut most of my services due to lack of funds. I have just spent 3 weeks in hospital and I need Physiotherapy for my legs but no funds for it. This is just terrible and the Government should not be allowed to do this to anybody especially Seniors who are in need. We all need to be extremely careful who we vote into Government. Australia is becoming Communistic with its discrimination between rich and poor and it is only going to get worse. We might be older age but we are not out of here yet. Have a heart and treat us like prized possessions please.

 

[LeahI]

Communism - distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
Excerpt from Wikipedia

 

[BellaB18]

I would be more than happy to sign all four of these petitions
Great idea. Hopefully people power will work.
Kind regards to all Vicki

 

[Bob Patterson]

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 agree as I am 72yo.

 

[gamiry]

I was about to find who I could write to in the hope of exposing My Aged Care so I am very happy that you have organised these petitions. I have been waiting 8 months for a My Aged Care package upgrade that should have come through at the latest mid-December. The waiting time keeps changing from “less than one month” to “1-3 months”backwards and forwards. We have had to cut most of my services due to lack of funds. I have just spent 3 weeks in hospital and I need Physiotherapy for my legs but no funds for it. This is just terrible and the Government should not be allowed to do this to anybody especially Seniors who are in need. We all need to be extremely careful who we vote into Government. Australia is becoming Communistic with its discrimination between rich and poor and it is only going to get worse. We might be older age but we are not out of here yet. Have a heart and treat us like prized possessions please.

I wonder if you are in Qld. The assessments they are working on are from around last June. The usual answer is "no staff and no money to pay them". The Advocate in Bundy is wonderful and works her butt off for us knowing I'm also along side her, contacting State and Federal Gov's and Pollies, for our people. We know how much money is being wasted on such useless things as the 2032 Olympics while folks still go hungry and homeless. I can't even get a replacement wheelie walker and recently I bought a treadmill to try and make my legs work.... they are numb from groin to toes. I cannot move without wheels. By the way, I bought it. They don't come as part of a package.
It's also not My Aged Care who is at fault. They actually put me in touch with my Advocate as they had had enough of the abuse which was not their problem.
My dear we aren't "prized possessions" we are more like hostages.

 

[wellbeing2]

I wonder if you are in Qld. The assessments they are working on are from around last June. The usual answer is "no staff and no money to pay them". The Advocate in Bundy is wonderful and works her butt off for us knowing I'm also along side her, contacting State and Federal Gov's and Pollies, for our people. We know how much money is being wasted on such useless things as the 2032 Olympics while folks still go hungry and homeless. I can't even get a replacement wheelie walker and recently I bought a treadmill to try and make my legs work.... they are numb from groin to toes. I cannot move without wheels. By the way, I bought it. They don't come as part of a package.
It's also not My Aged Care who is at fault. They actually put me in touch with my Advocate as they had had enough of the abuse which was not their problem.
My dear we aren't "prized possessions" we are more like hostages.

 

[Suemac]

Thank you for speaking up on behalf of the older generation in Australia.

 

[gamiry]

Thank you for speaking up on behalf of the older generation in Australia.

thank you Sue, I know no other way. I've worked for others all my life and, although my legs don't work, my brain still does and I'm hopeless sitting on my butt and doing nothing. I don't like me when I've got nothing to do so I read.. anything up to 5 books a week but not romance. I like non-fiction. Have a great day.

 

[Isis]

Pensions yes, but after much thought, self service checkouts no. To younger people they are now a part of their lives, so keep them for those who want them but definately increase the manned checkouts.

 

[Isis]

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

Couldn’t agree more. To the younger generation they are a way of life , should keep the choice, but increase manned check out. Pensions up? Yes please

 

[Luckyus]

I fail to fathom why age is any relevance to a petition?

 

[Isis]

I fail to fathom why age is any relevance to a petition?

I hear you. From what I see with my grandchildren although they recognise an older generation seems to prefer personal service they do t see what the fuss is about so signing petition maybe not. At 84 I like choices and definately lean to that personal service.

 

[Cheviegirl]

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.

 

[mylittletibbies]

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.

So glad my ALDI doesn't have self serve.

 

[MariaG]

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.

Go back to the message. Tap on the name of petition that is at the top of each topic. That will open the link to each. You have to go back and link into each one individually.