Kim Sattler, UnionsACT Secretary, was the Vintage Reds’ guest speaker on Tuesday 19 August2014 at the Dickson Tradies’ Club. Kim spoke on the topic “Bust the Budget & Fair Go for Canberra“.
Category Archives: Past Speakers
June 2014 guest speaker, Marie Coleman, NFAW
Marie Coleman was our guest speaker on 17 June 2014 at the Dickson Tradies Club.
Marie is a well-known activist and former public servant, and was the ACT’s Senior Australian of the year in 2011. She spoke on the May budget brought down by Messrs Abbott and Hockey.
The National Foundation for Australian Women, of which Marie was a founding member in 1989, has issued a press release,”Budget 2014: Women are the biggest losers!”, which notes that an unemployed single mother with one eight-year-old child would lose $54 per week or 12 per cent of their disposable income.
For the NFAW document, see http://www.nfaw.org/budget-2014-women-biggest-losers/
April 2014 guest speaker, Jo Root of COTA
We welcomed Jo Root, National Policy Manager of the Council of the Ageing (COTA), and Paul Flint, Executive Director, ACT, COTA, to our April meeting at the Dickson Tra
dies Club.
Jo spoke to the meeting on the topic “Where to from here on the Age Pension?”. She noted that 70% of retirees rely on the Age Pension as a significant component of their income, and 60% are on the full Age Pension.
Photo of Jo, from her Twitter page, https://twitter.com/positiveage