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2009-06-26
Two-tiered fairness: clamping down on the poor while letting the rich off the hook
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2009-06-22
Pensioners granted TravelTen concessions: now time to axe Older Driver Testing!
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2009-06-17
NSW Budget ignores dental
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2009-06-15
Medical energy rebate needed now
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2009-06-10
CountryLink booking fee scrapped!
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2009-06-09
Nursing home mouse infestation was present for months
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2009-06-02
Time to stop the arguing and act on aged care
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2009-05-26
Cataract surgery Medicare rebate under the knife
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2009-05-22
Pensioners to lose up to 39.2% of pension rise to electricity price hike
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2009-05-12
Budget 09: pensioners assisted, but falls short for those most in need.
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2009-05-11
GROUPS UNITE TO CALL FOR PENSION BOOST FOR SOLE PARENTS
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2009-05-11
CPSA’s position on budget leaks
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2009-04-27
Pensioners need an extra $11 a day – not $2.90
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2009-04-27
Hunter pensioners face a 40% increase in water bills
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2009-03-13
Irresponsible price hike will hurt energy-wise pensioners
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2009-03-11
Pensioners’ phone bills set to increase
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2009-03-02
Pensioner public meeting: 11 March
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2009-02-24
Big 4 banks swindling pensioners
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2009-02-24
Pension speculation = anxious pensioners
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2009-02-20
Abbott’s pension figures way off the mark
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2009-02-17
Pension increase should go to those who need it
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2009-02-02
Vouchers desperately needed for pensioners
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2009-01-30
NSW health system risking lives
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2009-01-20
Pensioners slabbed with a possible $70 increase
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2009-01-12
1 death following 2 outbreaks of gastro in Sydney nursing homes
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2009-01-05
Seniors’ transport concessions: nice if you can afford it
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2008-12-23
Starving patients horrendous but sadly no surprise
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2008-12-16
Outrageous medicine price rises will hurt Pensioners
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2008-12-15
Pensioners not left out of emissions trading
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2008-12-11
Retirement income review must deliver a fair go for all
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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