I am pleased to have been invited by SCOA and DFWA to a meeting on the issue of indexation of Commonwealth superannuants pensions, on Monday 16 August at 10.30 am at the Southern Cross Club in Woden. I look forward to our discussions there on how to best achieve our goals.
Together with the organisations [...]
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Speaking at SCOA & DFWA meeting on 16th August
ICT Supplier Advocate off and running!
I just had an excellent meeting with Don Easter, the newly appointed supplier advocate for the ICT industry. Having had the privilege of announcing the Rudd Labor Government would be making the appointment when I was a CeBIT in Hannover earlier this year, it was wonderful to meet the person tasked with this critical role.
It’s [...]
ICT & Creative industry development briefing paper handed over to Minister Carr
Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy presented the finalised briefing paper from her third Public Sphere on Australian ICT and Creative Industries Development to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr today to put to the Information Technology Industry Innovation Council.
Public Sphere Briefing paper #3 – Australian ICT and [...]
Recommendations from ICT/Creative Industries Public Sphere up for endorsement
Public Sphere 3: ICT & Creative Industry Development is now finally closed for further edits. The recommendations are all in an online endorsement system called IdeaScale and we’d like to strongly encourage you to take a few minutes to endorse recommendations you care about. This process is a basic quality assurance of the ideas as [...]
Retirees point finger at index
PSNews article
Over 500 Commonwealth superannuants attended a public meeting in Canberra recently to address pension indexation arrangements in Australian Government Civilian and Military Superannuation Schemes.
ACT Senators Kate Lundy (Labor) and Gary Humphries (Liberal) addressed the meeting, giving their views on Trevor Matthews’ review into superannuation indexation for APS and military employees.
Both Senators criticised the Matthews [...]
Address to Canberra Public Meeting
Following the public meeting on Monday, I wanted to post the notes from my presentation for your reference:
(Check against delivery) I want to thank the SCOA (Superannuated Commonwealth Officers’ Association) executive committee and to DFWA (Defence Force Welfare Association) for inviting me to talk and to listen to you. I am representing the Government here [...]
Response from Minister Tanner to our letter re: Matthews Reveiw
Please find below a link to a scan of the letter I received from Minister Tanner in response to the letter I sent in September along with my colleagues Mike Kelly, Annette Ellis and Bob McMullan.
Letter from Minister Tanner – 26th Oct 2009
Obviously we are disappointed with the response however the Minister has agreed to [...]
Senate Estimates Committee
At the Senate Estimates Committee hearing on Tuesday 20 October, Senator Sherry represented Minister for Fianance, Mr Tanner and answered questions from Senator Humphries on the Matthews Review. Referring to our letter (i.e. from Lundy/Kelly/McMullan/Ellis) to Minister Tanner, Senator Sherry said that the Minister had responded: in fact we have finally now received that response [...]
New article: Labor MPs lashout over PS super
Article in the Canberra Times, by Danielle Cronin – 26/09/2009
In an extraordinary move, two parliamentary secretaries and two backbenchers have condemned their Government’s rejection of a plan to improve superannuation for retired bureaucrats and defence personnel.
The decision affects about 300,000 people including about 50,000 in the Canberra region and has attracted strong criticism from Mike [...]
Ranking of recommendations from Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0
Please find the ranking of the recommendations arising from the Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0 topic. This was presented to the Taskforce and the Briefing Paper handover and Q&A session last month.
The original recommendations were derived from the Public Sphere process, and honed in the Public Sphere 2 wiki.
Please click through for a larger version [...]
