Grey gouge prepares to fight (members)

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By Leith van Onselen

The lobby group representing older Australians, Council of the Ageing (COTA), will today launch a campaign against changes to indexing arrangements for the Aged Pension, which were announced in the May Budget. From The Australian:

COTA Australia chief executive Ian Yates said the campaign, Hands Off The Pension, was in response to the feedback COTA was receiving from older people deeply worried about how they would l manage if the changes announced by Joe Hockey in the May budget came into effect…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.