To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:

We, the undersigned signatories, are aggrieved that the overwhelming majority of older Australians cannot obtain permanent employment due to several factors. These factors include age discrimination, health issues, and skill shortages in a job market where there is an average of 15 to 18 unemployed people per vacancy. Consequently, the overwhelming majority of Australian seniors are engaged in a needless futile burden in looking for work. We, the undersigned, seek the following remedy.

We ask that the Australian Government change the law so that the voluntary retirement pension age of sixty-seven years is lowered to sixty years.

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Greetings, fellow Australians.

It makes no practical sense to compel senior Australians to look for work when there are so many unemployed Australians already. According to Roy Morgan Research, in August 2020, there were 1,980,000 unemployed Australians with 1,290,000 underemployed Australians looking for extra hours of work. That's a total of 3,270,000 people, 22.8 percent of the workforce!
http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8512-australian-unemployment-estimates-august-2020-202009030534

At the same in August 2020, according to trading economics, there were 109,103 vacancies. Trading economics took their figures from the internet and newspapers.
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/job-advertisements

For the same period, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were approximately 206,000 vacancies. Their figures are an estimation from a job survey.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/employment-and-unemployment/job-vacancies-australia/latest-release

Now, how many job seekers are there per vacancy expressed as an average?

Is it 29 job seekers per vacancy? Or, is it 15 to 18 job seekers per vacancy? These figures were derived using the three methods listed below the next paragraph.

For the record, I am wary of the government's figures on unemployed people and job vacancies, as both are based on surveys from which they derive their estimates. For example, in May 2020 there were 1,680,000 unemployed Australians on jobseeker and youth allowance, and yet the Australian Bureau of Statistics stated that in May, there were 927,000 unemployed people; that is a huge discrepancy.

1. Divide the 3,270,000 unemployed/underemployed people by the number of vacancies for August as stated by trading economics (109,103) and you would have expressed as an average a ratio of 29 people looking for work per job vacancy.
2. Or you could divide the 3,270,000 people by 206,000 vacancies for August as stated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and you would have expressed as an average a ratio of 15 people looking for work per job vacancy.
3. Or simply divide 1,980,000 unemployed people by 109,103 vacancies, as given by trading economics, and you would have an average expressed as a ratio of 18 unemployed people per vacancy.

Which ever method you choose the news is grim.

We also note that politicians can retire before sixty, receive a handsome pension and earn an enormous salary. But for commoners like us, we have not been allowed to do the same. For example:

One Australian politician received a $100,000 pension while topping up his $450,000 base salary as governor. He was 59 yrs when he retired. Another politician received a $90,000 pension while topping up his salary of approximately $360,000 as ambassador. He was 50 years when he retired.

All former parliamentarians have their pensions indexed along with sitting members. So their pensions will not remain static but keep going up each year.

WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS?

METHOD 1

Governments and banks create money out of thin air all the time when it suits their interests. For example, during the corona virus, the Australian Government had the Federal Reserve Bank of Australia create tens of billions of dollars on a computer from nothing with no ensuing inflation, as there were enough goods and services to meet demand.

METHOD 2

For the more traditionally minded.

Make multi-national companies who practice tax avoidance pay their fair share of tax. If the government was more vigorous in its efforts, it could raise 9 billion a year or more in extra revenue to pay for increased expenditure. To illustrate the point, take the 356,400 people on jobseeker aged 55 years and over and divide that figure into 9,000,000,000. Each person would receive $25,252 each year. By the way, 710 companies made hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, and paid zero tax in the financial year of 2017-18.

At the end of this page, there are links to articles and videos that explain how money is made.

The Plan (Please, share this petition.)
If this petition gets 150,000 signatures, I will personally contact senators and ask them for their support. The goal is  to have the petition passed as a bill in both the senate and parliament. However, if that's not the case, I will collect more signatures and represent this petition to the senate as a petition for a plebiscite, postal vote, or referendum.

By the way, in 1946, in a referendum, the Australian people changed the constitution, to entitle themselves access to unemployment benefits, and other social security benefits. Thus, Social Security is an entitlement from the Australian people to themselves and not from the government.
See Australian Constitution s51(xxiiiA)

ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT PETITION FOR YOU TO CONSIDER AND SIGN.

Every Citizen in the event of unemployment or retirement has the right to a decent standard of living for themselves and their family, including sufficient food, clothing, and housing. Click on the link to sign the petition. TY!
https://www.change.org/p/a-victory-to-thrill-humanity

For 25 years, no Australian government raised Newstart in real terms adjusted for the cost of living; why is that? Why the sudden reversal and give people on unemployment benefits $550 a week? Was this out of the goodness of their collective political hearts? If so, why didn't they do this before and save people experiencing needless hardship and suffering?

Below is a list of books and videos that explain how banks and governments create money.

https://www.fabians.org.au/out_of_thin_air_public_debt_the_pandemic_and_beyond​

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/coronavirus-covid19-how-australia-is-paying-for-welfare/12133292​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=XcGh1Dex4Yo&feature=emb_logo​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-fyOgG2RGo&feature=emb_logo​

https://www.amazon.com.au/Web-Debt-Shocking-Truth-System-ebook/dp/B0057IS4RQ/​

https://www.amazon.com.au/Vile-Acts-Evil-Banking-America-ebook/dp/B003BEEAOE/