Legal Issues

Gender Issues

The 1999 movie American Beauty portrays the so called "Beauty" in America 29 years after the TAKEOVER by the small f feminist "sisterhood" in 1970.

And it is a very sore point with older Australians that it was the "Femi-Men" [or SNAGs as they were termed] of the day back in 1970 that allowed Germaine Greer to spread her dogma of her book "The Female Eunuch" throughout the world, including America, thus creating the American Beauty.

By 1973 the sisterhood mania was so implanted that Grandfather had become Grandperson for a short time.

But the mania subsided as the sisterhood realised they had more to lose than to gain and the big one was that the sisterhood could retire at 60 while mere men had to wait until 65. It took over 20 years for a Prime Minister with balls in Paul Keating to say to the sisterhood "you want equality, you will GET equality", and another 20 years to stage the equality into the legislation.

But in the latest example we did with the LOPS for Margaret [not her real name of course] simply changing her from a F to an M says that, but for being "born a woman", she would get $20,000 MORE over 20 years in Age Pension.

The delicious irony here is females are penalised under the Grandfather Rules simply because the ABS says they live longer, but one of the reasons that is the case is the very high number of male suicides as a result of the instruments OF the sisterhood, being the Family Court and Child Support Agency.

But leaving that aside why should an individual female have her Age Pension reduced simply because her gender lives longer.  So possible [or currently adjourned?] court application #1.

Discrimination Issues

If you look at the effect of the Grandfather Rules in the later stages of a Pension it is easy to see WHY a Pensioner could lose some $50,000 in Age Pension [see Post "The Jury is OUT on Grandfather"] over 20 years.  The algorithm generates a fixed [non indexed] amount that is applied for all years [even after the date on which you were expected to die].

On the other hand the Grandfather Rule [and New Rule it seems] says the Minimum Drawdown percentage increases over the 20 years [and keeps increasing after that], meaning that regardless of wanting to increase your payments [usually by a built in CPI amount] or being forced to do so, the Pensioner is penalised, AND all of that has been REMOVED under the New Rule.

So there is the big clue as to WHY the changes have been made, ie to get rid of the discriminatory aspects of the Grandfather Rules.  The New Rules simply Test the Capital remaining in the product [same as for the Asset Test] and leave the pensioner free to choose the Drawdown year by year, and I think there is a very good chance that such an application HAS been made in court and is being "indefinitely adjourned" while the Legislature furiously fix the holes in the dyke, ie possible [or currently adjourned?] court application #2.

Of course such a precedent case [if won] can have HUGE financial implications for a Govt, ie the Open the Floodgates issue, and it is ironic that Abbott's mentor Howard went through this same issue 10 years ago with the out of control Child Support Agency being brought to heel by court applications.

Howard brought in his Heywood Floyd look alike in Professor Parkinson to REMOVE access to "a day in court right" while covering over the dirty work with a shiny new formula, so we have the same devious WMD type manipulations going on here with Abbott.

The other clue is the recent manipulation of the "reversionary rights" to remedy [after changes to legislation] by the repeal of s 8 of the Acts Interpretation Act [1901].

But as for Howard, Abbott is covering his tracks very cleverly here AND at the same time is creating a 9/11 style Terror Campaign to induce/force Pensioners to stay ON the Grandfather Rules and allow those ill gotten billions of dollars to be denied to Pensioners for another 20 years.

As always there is no way to ever prove these matters because as for Heywood Floyd [Kubrick's adaption for Wayward Fraud] and his Piltdown Man Fraud, the details are buried deeper than Floyd's moon monolith.

The bottom line as always remains with Hitler and "It is most fortunate for governments that the people do not think".

BUT in this case remedy does not NEED a court case [rather, just the act of thinking, after reading this Post], but simply an election by the Pensioner to "sweep" their product and thus invoke the New Rule.  And here is the other delicious irony of the situation that it is the very fact that a Pensioner HAS that option that will STOP any court actions against the Grandfather Rule operation.  That is to say Abbott has been forced to give the Pensioner an option to go to the New Rule, so has to resort to Terror to maintain them on the Grandfather Rules.

So we have the good old Sword of Damocles situation with the Sword being held up by the [Eyes Wide Closed] Political Correctness induced by the small f feminist takeover that says people will always take their "right to Twitter their bile" over their right to Justice [if that involves actually thinking].

On the other hand he can always revert to his "throwing Pensioners overboard" solution he had at the time of Howard's children overboard gig, ie as Health Minister his plan was to deny the vaccine to Pensioners for avian flu, per:

TONY ABBOTT: "If you are to see on the front page of the newspaper headlines such as: "50,000 dead", or "50,000 to die", obviously people are going to start thinking the worst.
On the other hand, if you work out that that translates to something like a one in 500 risk of succumbing to a flu pandemic, I think you are able to put it into a different kind of perspective."