Racism is caused by ignorance. No reading required. The OAP (one payment) has got to be cheaper than Dole, Job seekers allowance, clothing allowance for job seekers, top up entitlements for job seekers, active job seekers allowance, inactive job seekers allowance, comatose job seekers allowance, stress management for job seekers allowance, indigenous top up job seekers allowance, cab fares to various Centrelink offices, cab fares to job interviews, etc etc etc once all totted up.Just did a prelim scan and noticed Seawart’s moniker. If you ticked it, you displaces someone of another race who had better marks, had probably worked harder, was probably more determined and possibly more individually intelligent because you got in on the basis of race and not on the basis of merit. "Are we going to make Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people wait for their super while this gap closes, or accept that we're still decades away from meaningful gains?" Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last year ruled out raising the pension age to 70 as part of the first retirement income review since the 1990s.
Median age of Aboriginal people at death in 2018, up from 55.8 years in 2008, 21 years less than for the Australian population as a whole. A petition wants the retirement age of Indigenous Australians to be lowered to age 55. The pension age is 66 for those born from 1954 to June 1955, rising to 67 years for those born after 1957. But stop with Aboriginals? There are renewed calls to lower retirement age for Indigenous people (NITV)A spokesman for Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt said in the e need realistic short term solutions, as well as these longer term ones. The ignorant comments above is why we have disadvantaged Indigenous Australians in this country. So grow up and get your facts straight .. read my comment on this post so you get a true grasp of the situation as it really isYou madam are an obnoxious bigot. Did you earn your position in university or did you get in through the back door by ticking the “Are you Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander” box. A petition to lower the retirement age for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders due to their decreased life expectancy has been tabled in the Senate. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg last year ruled out raising the pension age to 70 as part of the first retirement income review since the 1990s. Age Pension age: This is the age when you can access Australia’s Age Pension, provided that you’re an Australian resident and you pass both the income test and the assets test. The median age at death for non-Indigenous Australians are 78.7 years for males and 84.7 years for females. For example. For further information about the Age Pension, please contact DHS on 13 2300 or visit the Age Pension section of their website or if you are a veteran go to the Department of Veterans' Affairs website or phone 13 2300. she asked. Retirement age of Indigenous Australians' Petition. I can never forget how my late father ( Daddy to me) just did not know what hit him when he decided to retire in a huff. He said it was a sobering reality which spurred him into action. This ridiculous misconception from non-Indigenous Australians that Aboriginal upon thousands of Indigenous Australians I have worked my entire adult life!This ridiculous stereotype that Indigenous people are all drunks or unemployed has to stop. All Australia loses out because the best and brightest miss out. 87.7 Projected life expectancy for men at birth in 2050. According to the The petition’s organiser, Brett Nutley, said the reduction would allow more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to reach retirement.“I had a lot of friends who were dying way before retirement age and they didn’t have the opportunity to even look at their retirement,” he said.Mr Nutley said while measures were in place to try to increase life expectancy as part of the Close The Gap program, they were not helping people now.“There are a lot of good initiatives with employment and education, but like anything it’ll take time,” he said.Mr Nutley also acknowledged there would be critics of the idea.“You have people being quite rude saying your mob brought this upon yourselves, with drinking and alcohol and all that stuff,” he said.But he said generational issues stemming from the Stolen Generation meant Indigenous Australians were disadvantaged.“A lot of people don’t understand the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in this country,” Mr Nutley said.“Previous government policies are not in play now, but it did have a generational effect and it did run down the line.”Greens Senator Rachel Siewert tabled the petition and said she had been compelled to do so to put the issue of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy on the Government’s agenda.“What this says is this is unfair that Aboriginal people, we know there’s a gap in life expectancy, are dying at a younger age,” Senator Siewert said.“They’re then not enjoying the benefits of a retirement stage of their life because of this gap.“This issue has been around for a significant period of time and … this [petition] helps that conversation along.”The earlier retirement age would be optional for any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander who reaches the age of 55.What a novel way of attempting to resolve a problem that stems largely from a lack of self-responsibility – further rewarding those who cannot or do not help themselves with more tax payer largesse.You sir are a rude obnoxious bigot.. i am a tertiary educated proud aboriginal woman .. indigenous people account for less than 5% of the population … 95% of the centrelink recipients are 3 rd generation housing trust WHITE folk.. that move to country areas so they dont have to work.. or stay at home living on tax payer money , while playing xbox and playstation … and on so called PAY day go to the pub and spend the money on booze fags and pokies ..then run screaming to centrelink the following week they have no food for their children .. so they whine and get cash advances .