This year, 413 individuals across Australia are going to cost Taxpayers $50 million dollars, which will increase to $60 million dollars by 2030.

These 413 individuals compose of 329 EX MP's and 84 spouses, meaning they didn't serve, they were just married someone who did, and upon their death transferred the benefits to the spouse. 

In 2004 John Howard caved to pressure from Mark Latham to change to the incredibly generous retirement scheme, The Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948, that gives EX MP's up to 75% of their total salary, per year for life, to the more conservative Parliamentary Superannuation Act 2004, that gives 15.4% into the superannuation fund of their choice.

I have calculated from 2015 to present The Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948, and the 400+ people it has covered over the years has cost Australian Taxpayers $490 million dollars to date, with a further $330 million to be spent by 2030.

The list includes EX MP's, such as Dan Andrews ,Gladys Berejiklian (Found guilty at the 2023 ICAC), Christopher Pyne, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard (Who wasn't even elected by the people), Tony Abbot (https://www.ipea.gov.au/ says it was updated December 2023 but nothing actually there before 2022Q3. There are 5 quarters of expenses missing) 

There are plenty more but the two we should care about, are the two we are about to choose from, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton, as they both qualify for the pre 2004 Retirement Scheme. 

I am tired of empty government promises and talk. I want action and this is where we start. This is hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that could have gone to help prevent the housing crisis before it occurred, and hundreds of millions that still could.

UPDATE 4/4/24

It has been a month since I originally wrote this and a lot has happened since then. 

The question of rental caps in the mainstream media,  Lucy Turnbull, (Malcom Turnbull's wife) decided she wanted share her opinion on how we should import more 'skilled' labour from overseas, forcing lower wages, more housing issues, etc while she gets a free ride at the taxpayers expense, THANKS TO HER HUSBAND.

Personally I work in building construction, and all these issues we are having with Opal towers, Mascot towers, Macquarie Park Apartments are all because of exactly this. If you want quality products, you need quality training. Quality training isn't cheap and as of right now the Australian government doesn't recognise a lot of qualifications received overseas and supporters of their ideas want to bring in more unrecognized overseas trades? 

DR Monique Ryan MP started a petition on March 14th 2024 drawing attention to how the Australian government receives more from HECS debt then it takes from fossil fuel companies.

This is a message I can get behind but I have one question.

Why does an Independent MP think her best sword in this fight, is a petition on change.org and if it is, then what is your purpose? Are you people not elected and paid to make these decisions. This issue in particular is a no brainer, so tell me why we need you, if I can, and am, doing the exact same thing from the comfort of couch?

 

UPDATE 13/5/24

Since the last update, I feel this petition has gained much more credibility.

Firstly, I made reference to DR Monique Ryan and her petition to make changes to the HECS Debt issue. I then followed up with a statement criticising why MP's feel petitions are the best weapon in the fight for change. What can I say apart from, didn't I eat those words?

Today is 1 month from the Bondi Incident. Shortly after this Peter Dutton shared his outdated opinion on the corelation between teenage boys and violent video games. Something that has been researched multiple times and has been proven to be false.

Rallies were help around most major cities, with most of the attention being drawn away from the actual issue by none other then Mr Albanese himself. 

We were told that a National Cabinet would be held the following Wednesday and like many I was, to say the least, disappointed by Anthony Albanese's 'solution'. Something that was just and EXTENSION of an already EXPIRING resource. 

So, Dutton and Albo, who will choose the people they serve and not the peoples money? Which of you is big enough to cancel your own lifetime pension and put it towards funding basic needs, lie housing for some of the most vulnerable people in the country, women escaping domestic violence? Which was also proposed back in 2019 before $350 million was spent on these 413 'people'