From: Addicoat, Luke L. [Luke.Addicoat@woodside.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 5 August 2002 4:02 PM
To: 'fpa.sen@aph.gov.au'
Subject: Life Gold Pass

Can you please disregard our first submission and accept this new copy as
our original. Thankyou.


Maritime Union Members,
Cossack Pioneer.
P/O Box 995
Karratha WA  6714.

The Secretary,
Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,

Our submission will be in the form of a letter with points noted from A to I

We think the members of parliament Life gold pass Bill 2002, is a bill that
should be taken much further than just having a round of submissions and
discussions or debate to this Life Gold Pass Bill for parliamentarians,
their spouses and ordinary members of parliament and who ever else has so
called eligibility rights under this act .

We wish to now outline our main points of concern;

A, This bill should be totally repealed at the closure of the so called
senate legislation committee debate.

B,  The only distinguished person who should have entitlement to a gold pass
is
the Prime Minister of the day.

C, The tax payers of Australia should not be burdened with paying for travel
rights of any persons who leaves parliament or retires.

D,  Parliamentarians have a superannuation and other life benefits far
superior to any other Australian worker. These workers do not receive any
Gold Passes. We are taxed even more on our retirement from our work places
. Some are not even eligible for pensions after paying taxes all their
working lives supporting their families.  While other bloodsuckers  wrought
the tax system including politicians.

E,  Why should tax payers support spouses of M.P's when they were not
elected to parliament.  They have no rights to tax payers funds.  Their
travel costs should be payed by themselves or their own husband or wife or
whatever the marital situation.

F,  Ordinary members of parliament are also another drain on the public
purse.  They should also be made ineligible for this benefit.

G,  In general no member of parliament is worth a Gold Pass, so they can
ride on the public's back all very smug sitting in their 1st class seats,
while the poor suckers down the back are paying for them.

H,  Just recently politicians gave themselves another 3% pay rise, while
other worker's in society have to struggle for pay justification such as
nurses
who care for people in society.  This is one of the disgraces of this
country.  What's happening to the public health and hospitals systems.

I,  We declare that this present legislation should be totally repealed in
it's present form denying eligibility to all persons under this act, with
the
exception of the Prime Minister of the day.

M.U.A  Members on board  F.P.S.O  "Cossack Pioneer."