LOWER THE PENSION RETIREMENT AGE FROM 67 YEARS TO 60

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!
Roy Morgan Research

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.
Trading Economics statistics

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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics

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? Any way you do the math, the news is bad.

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 on computers when it suits their interests. For example, during the corona virus, the Australian Government had personnel from the Reserve Bank of Australia type and create tens of billions of dollars on a computer screen, 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.

The Plan (Please, share this petition.
If this petition gets 250,000 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)

If interested, please sign the petition. Thank you!