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2008-11-24
Opportunity to build a fairer housing system
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2008-11-18
Fair Go for Pensioners Rally
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2008-11-05
Pensioners’ awards salute unit-pricing supermarket and expose cardboard coffin rip-off
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2008-11-03
Pensioner concessions go unguaranteed
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2008-10-27
CPSA Conference 28-29 October, 2008
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2008-10-14
Christmas bonus for pensioners!
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2008-10-13
Disability Support Pensioners and Carers could boost economy too!
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2008-10-09
Pensioners take a backseat
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2008-09-24
CPSA supports Carers Australia’s $700 bonus
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2008-09-11
Couples, Disability Support Pensioners, Carers and Veterans miss out
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2008-09-03
Federal Government: Sell now, starve later
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2008-08-28
Work til your deathbed:
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2008-08-13
Selling the home to put food on the table
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2008-08-12
Pension Review states the obvious
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2008-08-12
No more guesswork in supermarket aisles
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2008-08-08
RTA must come clean on Older Driver Testing
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2008-07-16
Emission trading compo promise heartens pensioners
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2008-07-11
10 die after nursing home food poisoning:
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2008-06-16
Pensioners’ water bills up 38%
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2008-06-13
Adopt-A-Pensioner: beware of the pitfalls
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2008-05-15
Wayne doesn’t get it
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2008-05-13
Budget 2008: Pensioners miss out in Wayne Swan’s tax-cuts-theatre of the absurd
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2008-05-12
CPSA positions on leaked budget items
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2008-05-07
Pensioners up the Swanny River?
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2008-05-01
Nursing home barons in BBQ & Bingo scare
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2008-04-04
NRMA driving school franchise motivating u-turn on older driver testing?
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2008-04-03
CPSA condemns older driver testing changes
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2008-03-27
New Sydney Water prices punish waterwise pensioners
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2008-03-20
Pensioners ho-hum about Senate Cost of Living Inquiry
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2008-03-12
Pension bonus: Don’t forget disability pensioners live on God’s earth too
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2008-03-07
Abolish carer bonuses and pay a decent pension
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2008-02-26
CPSA AT TODAY’S RALLY TO OPPOSE POWER PRIVATISATION
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2008-02-22
Labor Pension plan NOT a dud
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2008-02-19
Iemma’s “iron-clad” electricity guarantee to pensioners
Submission calls for indexation and cpi-capped price increases
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2008-01-10
CPSA opposed to power privatisation
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2007-11-27
NRMA sell-out on older driver testing
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2007-11-07
Pensioners miss out:
Rich retirees get double utilities allowance
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2007-11-01
Pensioners response to [delete Howard’s, insert Rudd’s] $4b announcement on pensions
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2007-10-31
Health: do we want a sicko system or a fair system?
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2007-10-15
Pensioner response to Howard’s $4b announcement on pensions
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2007-10-10
Disabled not good enough:
You gotta be dead for taxfree super!
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2007-09-27
Good news: pension catching up
Bad news: it’ll take 250 years
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2007-08-27
Pensioners back NRMA stance on older driver testing
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2007-08-15
Pensioners to get a fair go
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2007-08-01
Calling on all full rate single age pensioners: snub the pollies!
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2007-05-09
Pensioners slam discrimination in budget
One-off payments and nothing for disability pensioners
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2007-05-02
Pensioners want some of that $16 billion surplus
Pensioner widows sick of struggling on $250 a week
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2007-04-30
Pensioners slam Rudd’s definition of struggling families
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2007-04-18
Village Life crisis resolved
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2007-04-16
Ageing Minister fails to comment on national implications of Broughton Hall Nursing Home deaths
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2007-03-15
Pensioners slam AMA’s opposition to mandatory reporting of nursing home abuse
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2007-03-13
Transport Minister in FOI cover-up on CountryLink pensioner booking fee
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2007-03-13
Premier Iemma to pensioners:
“You belong, you are loved, you count.”
But that’s about the size of it survey shows
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2007-03-02
Minor pushing and hitting of frail aged in nursing homes OK
Mandatory reporting of abuse to start 1 April 2007
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2007-02-21
Pensioner car rego exemption safe for now
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2007-02-16
Later developments
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2007-02-08
ACCC breathes life into fixed price funerals
Does the NSW Fair Trading Minister still want people to shop until after they have dropped?
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2007-01-31
Babyboomer studies boom
But what about the pappa & the mamma boomers?
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2007-01-16
Phantom community reps diddle Pensioners
Consultation on CountryLink Pensioner Booking Fee a farce
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2006-11-24
Pensioners to Australian Bureau of Statistics: ‘We told you so!’
New Pensioner CPI confirms:
inflation for age pensioners 1 per cent above rest
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2006-11-23
Pensioners debunk Santo Santoro porkies
Nursing home bonds unfair and unnecessary
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2006-11-08
Pensioners’ energy bill up $11.20
courtesy of the Federal Government
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2006-11-06
Pensioners and self-funded retirees hit by interest rate hike:
Reverse mortgages eroding pensioner home equity faster
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2006-11-02
Pensioner travel alert withdrawn:
Interstate ambulance fee reimbursement for pensioners reinstated
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2006-11-01
Pensioners eye new rail concession for rich retirees with envy
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2006-10-20
Pensioners and reverse mortgages:
Selling the house to pay for groceries
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2006-09-27
Blind veteran pensioner stuck with $860 ambulance bill
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2006-09-26
Pensioner travel alert: NSW Ambulances puts pensioners at risk
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1
September
Pensioners
hit harder by rising inflation
30
August
Pensioners
call for health and police investigations into state’s crematoria
14
August
Pensioners
not surprised by Australia Institute report findings on baby boomers
4
August
Pensioners
support NSW Opposition’s CountryLink policy
4
August
Pensioners
appalled at hospital waiting list treatment
25
July
Pensioners
not moving to Antarctica to vote
12
July
CPSA invites
all pensioners in on state election campaign
29
June
Pensioners slam Local Government Minister Hickey's falsehoods on council
rate REBATES
22 June
Bring back conductors after pensioner bus death
15
June
Pensioners
irate over CountryLink booking fee
9
May
Pensioners
miss out in surplus Budget
9
May
P-plater
minister discriminates against aged drivers
4
May
Pensioners
call for 13 per cent increase in council rate rebate
17 February
First time in history Australia Post charges pensioners
7 February
CountryLink Services Cut and Pensioners Taxed 15% More
20
December
The
Budget Surplus is our money and we want it spent on services
9
December
Funeral
Inquiry Report
27
September
CountryLink
reforms fall short
15
September
Pensioner
Excursion Ticket extension welcome but room for improvement
14
September
Pensioners
reserve decision on proposed reforms to the Residential Parks
Act
21
July 2005
Age
Pension essential for those without assets
21
June 2005
Howard’s
IR changes to affect pensions
27
May 2005
NCOSS:
Consumers urged to call funeral industry survey hotline
27
May 2005
Minister Announces NSW Funeral Industry Consumer Survey
10
May 2005
Budget
to attack low-income earners
05
May 2005
Age Pensioners ignored, Disability Support Pensioners and Sole Parents
screwed
20
April 2005
Medicare
Federal mismanagement – Intentional?
12
April 2005
Ageing population misinformation
18 March 2005
CPSA - Serving the Community since 1931
15
February 2005
Dental
health needs some serious work
09
February 2005
Don’t leave
Western Sydney stranded Mr Watkins!
30 January
2005
The
Huge Cost of Dying
20 January 2005
A Message to John Watkins: Fix our Ailing Transport System
14
January 2005
CPSA
clears the table at the 2004 Consumer Protection Awards!
28
October 2004
No
photo finish for older people at RTA!
27
October 2004
No
photo finish for older people at RTA!
6
October 2004
Medicare
30
September 2004
What's
your agenda for pensions, John Howard?
30 September 2004
At
last pensioners and old people get a guernsey.
27 Sept 2004
Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme still in Doubt through FTA.
15
September 2004
Save
our rail services from Michael Costa
23
August 2004
Howard's
private health insurance rebate is a costly bribe
6th
August 2004
USFTA
- There is no such thing as a free lunch but affordable
medicines not too much to ask
30
July 2004
Australia
- US Free Trade Agreement: when will Labor find a backbone?
12
July 2004
Superannuation
exit fees must be regulated
30
June 2004
Still
not enough places in residential aged care
23
June 2004
Pensioners
see red and challenge politicians to commit to a national
housing strategy
21
June 2004
Latham's
policy on banks a good start
18
June 2004
Rally 19th
June to save CountryLink services
12
May 2004
Budget
does nothing for low income earners
10 May 2004
CPSA
and APSF respond to Federal Budget 2004
29
April 2004
PRESS
CONFERENCE AT CENTRAL STATION, PLATFORM 3, 11.38 TODAY “GET RID
OF COSTA NOT RAIL SERVICES!”
29
April 2004
Get
rid of Costa not rail services!
21
April 2004
Ordinary
Australians say no to tax cuts and yes to stronger communities
19
April 2004
US/Aus Free Trade Agreement could see elderly pay up to 300% more
for prescription drugs
7
April 2004
Pensioners
tell fresh food people - leave drugs to the experts.
30
March 2004
Gold
card not worth its weight- diggers must pay
17
March 2004
Pensioners suffer
130% fare slug!
2 March 2004
Luna Park
smiles again but half a million Australians still waiting to
get their teeth fixed
25
February 2004
Costello
warning on need for older workers “alarmist garbage”
19
February 2004
Pensioners
urge Howard to oppose nursing home bonds
9
February 2004
Australia’s
health as a nation is now on the line
30
January 2004
ALP’s
Dental Health Program a Good Start
29
January 2004
Australia’s
pensioners are not bargaining chips
20 January 2004
A
message to John Watkins: Fix our ailing transport system.
2
December 2003
Government’s
Medicare Proposal not Acceptable
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