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With the election now set for 21 August, it is time for voters to see through the spin and nut out the details to make the call on who will best serve the Australian population.
At the time of writing, nothing major had been announced in
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The following is an extract of the Eulogy read by Bob Broadfoot, West Wallsend CPSA President.
I am deeply honoured to be asked by Judy and her family to deliver this eulogy that was written by the family for Les Elkins
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THERE is no doubting that statistics point to the fact that Australia’s population is ageing. There have been endless articles in the Australian media discussing the ramifications for the nation’s economy because of this phenomenon and
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CPSA’s 78th Annual Conference, held at the Salvation Army Congress Hall in Sydney on 27 and 28 October, was a resounding success.
The Conference enjoyed a great turnout with many familiar faces joining new ones who we hope will ret
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THE NSW Government is planning to privatise Pillar, NSW Lotteries and a number of Government organisations.
Pillar is responsible for the financial management of Financial Services to the present Government Superannuatio
(more)THE CORRIMAL Branch of CPSA is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year.
Corrimal CPSA has its roots in Wollongong CPSA which in 1958 had over 400 members.
Those from outside Wollongong were asked to form Branches in their o
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IT WAS with utter dismay that we heard the budget speech as it once again showed that pensioners and carers are a forgotten race.
Perhaps their long term plan is that if pensioners and carers are ignor
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WE NOW know. The Rudd Government has broken all Labor traditions and has turned its back on pensioners.
The budget addresses poverty throughout this nation, yet fails to address poverty among pen
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ALMOST daily we’re being reminded how difficult it is for aged and other pensioners to subsist on the pension as it now is.
Costs of food, travel, accommodation and medical care are rising regularly and pens
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I THINK that I have found the right car sign for older drivers. Rather than putting an “S” on seniors’ cars, I think we should put up a sign saying MAD, standing for Mature Age Driver.
That way everyone would know wh
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I AM annoyed that the NRMA has weakened its stance on older driver testing, but it’s clear that the Government’s hinted policy would offer financial gain to the NRMA in attracting the 85-year-olds to its
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Weekend work has highlighted for
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I HAVE been reading your online magazine with great interest.
As an aged-care nurse I find your approach to lobbying for better services very disjointed. I would suggest to you that it would be far more benefici
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WHEN I came to Australia in 1954, we were told our taxes would help build Australia. We didn’t get anything back (no first home owner’s grant, no baby bonus, no family benefit A or B).
Only in very execeptio
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PENSIONERS. No-one else will take up the cause.
Sometimes it seems like most of the people in the community have a benefactor fighting for them but who gives a damn about pensioners? All we are told is t
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I AM A DISABILITY Support Pensioner, 58 years old, and have been advised by Centrelink that we (my spouse and I) will not receive the Federal Government's promised utilites payment.
I have already raised t
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BOTH MY wife and I were pleased to receive $500 from the last budget but were surprised it was only a one off payment which will need to last us four years ($2.60 a week)
When GST was brought in us pensioners
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I WISH to correct a number of factual errors in the article Aged Care Improvements Neutered by Industry in the May 2007 issue of THE VOICE and the eVOICE (http://www.cpsa.org.au/evoice.html).
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PUBLIC hospitals in NSW are abolishing segregated wards in favour of mixed-sex wards and shared toilets.
I had a number of admissions to the Mater hospital in Newcastle with a women’s health problem and
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RECENTLY I underwent the RTA age test. I failed. I was absolutely stunned. I’ve been driving for 57 years with a 100 per cent clean record. I drove trucks for 30 years all up without a single accident. The o
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IN the previous VOICE, you suggest that readers can cut out the yellow letters printed on the back page and send them off to the Premier and Leader of the Opposition.
Not only did I do that I actually retyped them
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