Tag: pensioners

Government Passes Pensioner Concessions to Free up Housing

Pensioners are being given further concessions to encourage them to downsize and free up housing stock for younger families looking to buy. The new federal laws reduce the impact selling a house has on the payments pensioners, and other welfare recipients receive. The current 12-month asset exemption test for the amount of money from the…


Let Pensioners and Veterans Shore Up Our Worker Shortage

Commentary The upcoming Jobs and Skills Summit in Australia, to be held on Sept. 1 to 2, must bring immediate reform to address worker shortages crippling Australian businesses. Australia is in the midst of a worker shortage crisis, with almost 500,000 job vacancies across the country. This is holding businesses back as they try to…


State Officials Fight Wall Street to Protect Pensioners From ESG ‘Scam’

After failing to advance their agenda by passing laws in Congress, progressives have found that they can impose their will on Americans just as effectively through our financial system. And while some state officials have recently started to fight back, they are heavily outgunned. The world’s largest asset managers, BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, have…


Australian PM Dismisses Free COVID-19 Tests Amidst Pressure

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has asserted the government will not be making rapid antigen tests free, despite growing calls from the Labor government to make them available for everyone. Following widespread shortages of the rapid tests and large queues at PCR testing clinics across the country, the prime minister said the tests wouldn’t be…