Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I present to the Senate a petition from 13,666 petitioners which is not in conformity with the standing orders as it is not in the correct form calling for an end to the current indexation arrangements for military superannuation pensions and to set up a better arrangement for them:

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:

The petition of the undersigned calls on the Rudd Government, in the interest of fairness and proper recognition of the unique nature of military service, to:

1.

Stop the discrimination against the ex-service community and put an end to the current indexation arrangements for military superannuation pensions which are hopelessly inadequate and condemn our military pensioners to fall further behind rising community income standards.

2.

Link the Military Superannuation Pension to an indexation method that conforms with general community standards such as the same indexation arrangements used for the Aged and Service pensions.

3.

Immediately update the Life Expectancy Tables for DFRDB commutation arrangements and rectify the injustices associated with the application of inappropriate life tables.

Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I present to the Senate a petition which is not in conformity with the standing orders as it is not in the correct form with 353 signatures on the pay equity campaign for community service workers.

Petitions received.