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

 

[Hollingworthlake]

I would like to suggest bulk billing be mandatory for appointments with doctors. I am tired of paying $40 (rebate amount) to see my doctor especially since I receive a full pension.

 

[fourwb]

I wrote to my MP Andrew Charlton some time ago about cost of living but as a good labor man he did not respond. What do we pay these morons for?

 

[Hollingworthlake]

Or just scroll down to bottom of page

I have signed them all (thank you for initiating) and I added another one “Drs, please bulk bill pensioners”. I am tired of paying $40 (rebate amount) to see my Doctor. I am in receipt of a aged full pension)

 

[saundy]

HI Maddie,
I have signed all these documents and I fully agree with you and appreciate and thank you for what you are doing, I have one point Can they legally remove cash?

Cash is legal tender of Australia I am not sure that they can totally remove cash from the Commonwealth of Australia

 

[Brody]

I thought they were all relevent
I am not sure how to vote, but I would sign all 4.
If you could vote for me please do that now with my consent.

 

[Magika Lederberg SDC]

Yes always keep cash its a lot easier to remember then trying to remember a pin no. or an access code

 

[Brody]

Maddie please consider my
consent in asking for you to acknowledge this post as agreeing to all four of the petitions. I am not Computer Literate, but I want to add my
"Voice" to be included in
voting for all four of the petitions. Thank You.

 

[Argie]

Your not actually signing it. Just click on the links and fill in you name and email

Thanks Suzanne rose for this.I have just signed the 4.

 

[Lynnyrose]

Done All four signed. Thanks for organising this. A good cause

 

[KPortia]

Im 73 yr aged pensioner paying full rent $1080 per fortnight left with$180 per fortnight to pay for food petrol ect I also have 2 little dogs who need to be fed , I worked all my adult life and with no super to help because there was nothing back then, all my savings have nearly gone ,how are we suppose to survive ? With all the stress this has caused it is affecting my health , I know there is so many more like me why doesn’t the government give us equivalent of basic wage ?

 

[Rosie2023!]

Just make sure , please, I have arranged for A SDC PERSON to sign these petitions on behalf.
Thank you..Coralie Richmond.

 

[Blossom1]

Why do we have to wait so long to be assest for goverment packages I have just turned 80yr and have to wait
to get on gov package list,I have been told it is going to take months.

 

[mylittletibbies]

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

The petition isn't about banning self serve, it's about exactly what you say "free choice"
Too many supermarkets are prioritising self serve over manned checkouts.
I have been to supermarkets who have 10 or 12 self serve and only one manned checkout, how is that free choice, we shouldn't have to be waiting in long queues. A fair distribution of both is what is required.

 

[mylittletibbies]

Hi,

I sorry but I will only sign 3 out of 4. I would support the 3rd if it only applied to people who are over 80 as they only benefitted 17 years of superannuation which was bought in on 1 July 1992. People who retire now have benefitted from 32 years of super and like me should not even be given a pension. That was the one thing that Keating and Hawke got right during their terms in government and for that I salute them.

So my question is why are there so many people being added to get the pension when by now they, like me (66 years old) should be self reliant??? The taxpayer should not be made to pay for people who have never worked and refused to look after themselves and snubbed their noses at their fellow workers and taxpayers IMHO.

Bugger, looks like it's an all or nothing, but you almost have the numbers so as per normal the person that has done the right thing all his life is shafted again

You sound so bitter. Yes there are those who have contributed nothing to society all their lives,but there are also many who through no fault of their own, who have had disadvantaged childhoods, grown up in dysfunctional families, been taught no better.
Those with ill health, disabilities, etc and those whom life has just treated badly.
I have worked hard all my life, had two broken marriages, diddled on both, but have still managed to end up owning my own home.
I give thanks to my parents for a good education and being bought up to be a fighter.
Not everybody is that lucky.
Be grateful that you have what you have earned through your life's efforts, enjoy your life .
Don't waste your time feeling bitter about others who may or may not have wasted their lives.
There will always be those sort of people, but not everybody.

 

[Heather Watson]

I agree just because we are getting older does not mean we should have to go cash less leave each to there own it use to be the free country??????

 

[Ebby]

Wrote 4 emails yesterday and, again nothing went through including my congratulations on the petitions but I asked how do I sign them? I tried a few ways but nothing happened. PLEASE if someone can do it for me tick yes to all . I've often wondered how to do a petition especially about the banks.

Hi Gamiry don't worry ! All you do is click on to STOP THE TRANSITION TO ALL SERVICE CHECKOUTS then scroll right down and there is a fill in part where you put your name etc .Just fill it in and send .Same goes with the other three just do the same.Hope it works for you

 

[Dennis]

Surely with having over 320,000 members we should be able to romp home 100.000 members for each question, it is up to us to support our hard working team in their efforts to improve the club, it took me about 5 mins. to answer the 4 Questions.

 

[Classic141922]

Were are the petitions please

 

[Emwick]

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.

Hello Gamiry,
No, you're not stupid. I had the same problem initially. What you need to do is go back to the page where the petitions are explained Tap on each of the titles IN BOLD PRINT, then it leads you to a page where you can sign. Do the same for each petition.
Emwick

 

[CCC]

Go for it Seniors Discount Club