All Tax payers deserve retirement at 65.  
Front line staff in the public service have higher burnout rates as a result of Shiftwork and high-pressure jobs.   I have seen many friends and acquaintances die before they even reach retirement age.   More members of my family and friends have burnout as a direct result of facing arduous circumstances daily. Being exposed to the pain, physical and mental ill-health of others mixed with aggressive, belligerent and violent clients. I have no doubt this applies to the Police, Fire, Ambulance staff, Health workers, Child safety, Prison staff and the arm services.

When I started work at 15, I was eligible to retire at 55. This became 60 with equality and now 65 and I will actually get the pension at 67 1/2. Or will I??  
When I think about it, people like myself who started work early and have been employed for many many years in the public service work and others agencies feel aggrieved that we have paid all this tax and will receive no support.  It very much feels like the government the banking on us dying before we get there.

I can’t imagine how it must feel for people who work manual labour jobs. To be continuously needing physicality to be employed. At work sites more health and safety accidents are still occurring and leaving impacts on the bodies of manual labours, who surely have a shorter life expectancy, and poorer health outcomes. How labours will continue to work after 65 is beyond me.

So I’m asking for your support for the following idea. All people who have paid 20/25 years of tax to the Australian government should be entitled to an Australian pension at 65. This amount of money should be equitable across the board. People with a lot of money don’t have to apply for it. It would be polite if our country, our lucky country, had a universal income, instead of pandering to the rich, and kicking the poor as reflected in the gap between the high income, earners and the retirees. Please sign today because once this is set in concrete through Parliament, it will be hard to move.