Australian aged pension

THE HISTORY OF THE AGE PENSION

The History of The Age Pension Fund is not-well-known and it goes back to 1945. When Prime Minister Ben Chifley become aware of grinding poverty amongst the elderly. He was shocked and a referendum was put to the people of Australia; and the outcome was a welfare fund contributed to by every Aussie worker, at a rate of 7.5% of gross income (at the time, in Australia and New Zealand, one and sixpence in the pound). This was a fund that was very specially owned by the workers and declared as such; a fund in which government could not interfere; and from which it could not even borrow. Money could only be paid out as an indexed and non-means tested pension upon retirement at age 65 (60 for women).

To ensure the public was reminded of its investment, and so no government could interfere with the fund, the amount appeared at the top of every income tax form and was calculated before income tax. Actuaries have calculated that this fund should currently be yielding at $ 6000 per year more than the current age pension.

Posthumously , former Prime Minister Robert Menzies should be tried for the original THEFT; perhaps the greatest HEIST in human history. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating needs to answer the long-stalled question, WHERE IS THE FUND ?
This is a fund that he ILLEGALLY and in BREACH of the Constitutional sacrosanctity of referenda, imposed means testing; on worker's own savings.

Does the current so called government know about this ?
It would certainly explain why on 29 July 2009 the Minister for Aging Jenny Macklin attention from the 1946 fund, by erecting a monument in Canberra to the 1909 age pension scheme which, as she mentioned over-casually, "was means tested, just like today's version."
Nice try Minister but you are still in possession of STOLEN FUNDS and IMPOSING ILLEGAL means-testing.

So now it is in the public domain.....we are being ripped off.....this money is yours.......they needed a referendum to be able to tax your income to get the seven and a half percent.....they have no right to tax anymore of your wages.....get the picture...its your money not theirs.......now lets see the Federal Police grow some balls and charge these thieves with theft and fraud.....and lets see those thieves pay back all of the money they have unlawfully paid themselves.