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

 

[Abby2]

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

 

[Kinchar]

I agree. It's poor for us oldies.

 

[Reet]

I have signed these petitions too. We need to let the authorities know what is best for the majority of us and not let them dictate to us what they think we need.

 

[Veggiepatch]

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

Same here.

Issues 1 and 4 should give the "technocrats" a swift kick in the backside!

 

[OldBells]

All signed for these very worthy causes

 

[Loubeauxarts]

Congratulations SDC on this initiative. Too many people are content to have a whinge in the comments section when, as it so frequently does, one of these issues is highlighted. There has always been strength in numbers and something like this has much more chance of bringing about change than any individual grumbling. I will also add my name to the petitions listed and would urge all subscribers to do likewise. Good move guys

 

[Ebby]

All signed for these very worthy causes

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

 

[gamiry]

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.

 

[Choff5]

Where are the petitions so I can sign?

 

[CatBonniladi]

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

 

[Liz]

Thanks SDC I have just signed all 4 petitions. Are we meant to get a confirming email for each of the petitions, nothing has come into my inbox?

 

[Suzanne rose]

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.

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

 

[Suzanne rose]

Great petitions I've signed them all.

I'm trusting though that our info will only be shared with these four

 

[gamiry]

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.

 

[Liz]

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.

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.

 

[Suzanne rose]

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.

Worked for me too

 

[Suzanne rose]

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.

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.

 

[gamiry]

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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bless you Suzanne, I'd have never worked that out. I grew up with "if you don't know don't touch it" and with the problems we put up with in my area I stick with that. I've first used a computer over 25 years ago but for almost 15 of those years I lived somewhere where there was no internet or mobile phone use. My friend Lyn still lives here and our beloved Veggiepatch can back me up as he lived there a while ago. HI VEG. I'm in town now but most of the problems continue so I'm still relearning so a huge THANK YOU.
Damn, little emojis have gone again. BIG SMILE.

 

[NotNats]

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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Or just scroll down to bottom of page