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

 

[Jest]

i am over 60 but, i am sorry i come first.

 

[Jest]

i am over 60 but, i am sorry i come first.

i did all my signing some weeks back.

 

[Andrew]

How can l "sign" the petition as l don't have a computer. I only have a phone and tablet?.

 

[Jest]

How can l "sign" the petition as l don't have a computer. I only have a phone and tablet?.

are they not the same. you still need the internet with a tablet

 

[alisonhearne7]

What about shops charging for credit card use while making it hard to use cash!

 

[Jest]

i recently took out $200 cash from Woolies main counter, so why not do that and then go in purchase and pay cash? WHY would anyone use a credit card for groceries I ask?

 

[Vinylted]

Why beat your brains out with the checkouts wrangle? The solution is just so easy " stop using the bloody things" and they'll soon disappear!

 

[GranniCaz]

Thank You Maddie… so much appreciated.
Perhaps you would consider advocating for Seniors regarding the broken and mismanaged My Aged Care system in assessments for Elders requiring, indeed vulnerably in need and falling through the cracks accessing basic Home Help and ultimately Government Home Care packages?

 

[Sass]

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

I think that’s what is being suggested here. To not go completely self serve, which is the way things seem to be going, to keep more check outs open& to give everyone a choice. I may have misunderstood.

 

[ToniaKisliakov]

Happy to sign petitions

 

[samtumino]

Hi Maddison Dwyer,

I thank you and the Senior Discount Club for these worthwhile initiative and wish to all of them, a well deserved outcome.

An additional petition that should be included is a push for a UNIVERSAL PENSION.
The present system excludes too many needy pension age people who, for many bureaucratic reasons, are very easily excluded by Centerlink assessments. The many benefits for the Government and the rest of us have been listed by many more knowledgeable and influential people than me.
Most obvious:

No need for continuous assessments for eligibility,
No need for the enormous number of Centerink employees around Australia to check them,
Streamlined system,
Etc., etc...

People who don't need the pension would have to return it when lodging their Tax Returns.

It works well in many other parts of the World, including our closest neighbour New Zealand.
Why not in Australia?

Regards, Many Thanks
Sam

 

[mchayelle]

HI there, I agree with all 4 petitions. How do I sign?

 

[mchayelle]

HI there, I agree with all 4 petitions. How do I sign?

Hi it's me again, mchayelle. I agree, I lost my job through an injury at work and now am unable to return to work. I cannot get the disability pension because my husband (who is a casual, therefore has a very flexible income), on an 6 monthly average earns $20 too much a month. This is devastating. Our rent has just increased $50 a week. This is devastating.

 

[Bianca]

One works hard all their life, banks money to ensure enough is available - then Centrelink take the Pension off you - disgusting?

 

[Wandering Star]

All signed and links sent to friends and family!

 

[Missy’s Mum]

Hi Maddie Yes I support your online Petition.
A lot of Aged Pensioners are doing it tough.
I know that I am I have Zero money left at the end of my Pension week after Bills and food Petrol etc are taken out.
Maureen GILDART Phone 0448983399 Email [email protected]

 

[Mark@Home]

Where are the petitions so I can sign?

1. Scroll up this page until you see the detail I have reproduced in a screen shot.
2. Click on each paragraph heading in turn and fill out the details - of any or all that you agree with.

 

[Magika Lederberg SDC]

I'm sorry but I like using cash rather then digital transaction, with cash I can see what money I've got left and as such know what else I can afford to buy, cash is king or queen if you are a female. Tom Butel

 

[Rina51]

yes I will sign but need to know how ?

 

[LEEANNE Emmett]

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