With at least half of the 20 retiring federal politicians set to receive a parliamentary pension, it\u2019s time the pollies\u2019 pension was axed entirely, say the Greens.
\n\u201cWhile politicians elected after 2004 don\u2019t receive a parliamentary pension, those elected before then \u2013 such as Ministers Pyne and Ciobo, rumoured today to be leaving politics \u2013 would get hundreds of thousands of dollars each year as a pension, for doing nothing,\u201d Greens spokesperson for democracy Senator Larissa Waters said.
\n\u201cThese blokes will probably end up like their mate Joe Hockey – with a diplomatic posting and a cushy pension \u2013 all funded by the taxpayer.
\n\u201cPoliticians have their snouts in the trough, while ordinary people struggle with the cost of living, wages have flatlined and Newstart hasn\u2019t increased for 24 years.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s no wonder people think so little of politicians, when the rules are rigged in their favour. If they\u2019re not doing the job anymore they shouldn\u2019t be paid.”
\nGreens will request the Parliamentary Budget Office to cost the public money saved from such a move, and would move to apply those savings to people who actually need it, as part of our pledge to increase Newstart by at least $75 a week.
\n\u201cIn Budget week I\u2019ll move for parliamentary pensions for MPs elected before 2004 to be scrapped, and will keep pushing on this issue if the Greens have the balance of power in the Senate after the next election,\u201d Senator Waters said.
\n\u201cLet\u2019s give help to the people who need it. Not to those who\u2019ve received generous salary and allowances while in the job and still want to collect after they leave the job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With at least half of the 20 retiring federal politicians set to receive a parliamentary pension, it\u2019s time the pollies\u2019 pension was axed entirely, say the Greens. \u201cWhile politicians elected after 2004 don\u2019t receive a parliamentary pension, those elected before then \u2013 such as Ministers Pyne and Ciobo, rumoured today to be leaving politics \u2013 … Continue reading “Greens say Axe pollie pensions when Ciobo and Pyne go”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}