Media Release
Jenny Macklin MP
Shadow Minister for Families and Payments
Shadow Minister for Disability Reform
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Treasurer Joe Hockey has confirmed that Tony Abbott will break his pre-election promise that there would be no changes to the Age Pension.
Appearing on the ABC’s AM program this morning, the Treasurer said that an increase in the pension age is ‘inevitable’.
This is a complete betrayal
of the 2.3 million age pensioners who placed their trust in Tony Abbott
on election day, not to mention senior Australians who are on the cusp
of retirement.
Tony Abbott’s promise was crystal clear:
“No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS.”
[TONY ABBOTT – SBS INTERVIEW – 6 SEPTEMBER 2013]
Unless Tony Abbott rules out changes to the pension, it is clear that he cannot be taken at his word.
And in a further example of
the government’s twisted priorities, Joe Hockey has also defended the
Government’s rolled-gold Paid Parental Leave Scheme, which will see
wealthy women paid $75,000 to have a baby.
What Tony Abbott is telling
Australian pensioners is that they will have their standard of living
cut in order to give millionaire mums a $75,000 bonus. It’s outrageous.
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