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!

Sign our petitions! Image source: Shutterstock.

Have a great day!
Maddie

 

[wendells]

I have been treated for sciatica and bulging disc and unfortunately I stay home more now rather than go out to do my shopping. I have my shopping home delivered and I used to love to go window shopping. When I am feeling OK I will drive to the shops but I won't stay there for very long.

 

[oldiebutgoodie]

how and where do I sign this petition

 

[Sandy S]

Keep up the good fight

 

[freedy50]

While I agree about Aged Care Support and Pension, the other two usual subjects, cash and self checkouts are a waste of time as usual. I see those two have got a whole 4,015 signatures each out of 100,000 needed.

And what's the point of addressing them to 'To Whom It May Concern'? Who will they be sent to if they get any more signatures? At least address them to whoever has a say in these subjects or they will just be ignored.

I won't be signing them anyway.

 

[gentlejack]

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?

We pay them to have free transport,, meals and alcohol while in office then all the free perks when they get voted out..

 

[ChrisM]

Where can I sign the petition as nothing seems to work in this article. Thanks in anticipation.

 

[burlighs007]

Again I have tried to sign all of the very important petitions. It still will not allow me to finish the process. Keeps going back to my name

 

[Tashobbin]

Keep cash alive in Australia for everyone

 

[Jerry Attrick]

This petition demonstrates how important we can be as a political force for change when we band together. Thus, we need to spread the 'word' to those who aren't aware of our Seniors Discount Club and show them the benefits participating and engaging in this 60s and over social club

 

[Jerry Attrick]

Can't get to the next petition? Try this hack that worked for me. 1. Go to the first petition and complete it. 2. Then go back to the original email article and click on the second petition and fill it out. 3. Repeat this process individually for the other two. That's what I did!

 

[Teddy10]

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.

i tried also but kept getting the archives of newspapers and couldn't get passed it.

 

[Bev49]

Yes

 

[VicCiCi]

Cash should be accepted any where we go.

 

[Neville olsson]

I believe with our pension card all puchesuss we make government should give a 10 percent discount

 

[maryse3345]

where is the petition to sign?

 

[Teddy10]

Or just scroll down to bottom of page

I wanted to add another concern for backup but couldn't find where to go. Topic will be NO COAL for Bundaberg, Qld.

 

[ClancetteCLIFT]

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

I agree...stick with some cash check outs

 

[poekie]

great

 

[SandyBolay]

Great cause {of course}, keep up the good work.

 

[orange]

All 4 Petitions signed .. Good work by SDC..