Sixty-four-hundred dollars per person isn’t enough to live decently when you’ve put in your decades—half that figure is barely a start. We’re not asking for some pie-in-the-sky dream; we’re demanding straight doubling to thirteen thousand per person, because the people who built this country deserve to retire with dignity, not scrape by on crumbs.
The numbers behind the demand
Previous
$6419 / person
Per-person spend when demanded
Right now
$13226 / person
Current per-person spend
— delivered
What voters want
$13000 / person
Target per-person spend
🎉 Delivered on May 5, 2020 via the budget that passed.
Next election on 11 October 2025 (in 9 months).
Pledges (2)
Avalon First
pledged May 1, 2020
Delivered
“Elite earners ought to pay their fair share. We will finance this pledge with tax reform that places a proper obligation on the very richest among us and cutting wasteful spending on the resettlement of refugees.”
Liberal Democratic Alliance
pledged May 3, 2020
Delivered
“I promise to raise the retirement funding”