Sent:	Monday, 29 January 2001 4:37 PM
To:	super.sen@aph.gov.au
Subject:	Public Service Superannuation.

I am a long time member of the Commonwealth Public Service and a member of
the CSS who is very concerned at the erosion of my future pension owing to
its being indexed only by the CPI.  The CPI clearly does not reflect real
increases in the types of expenditure of retirees.  The obvious and fairest
approach would be to have the superannuation of public servants indexed by
the increase in public servant's salaries .  This would give parity with
other Commonwealth employees such as parliamentarians.

A less attractive alternative would be to apply the formula used by the ATO
for superannuation taxation purposes and by a number of state governments
for their employees: using the changes in the Average Weekly Ordinary Times
Earnings which would have greater relevance to the expenditure patterns of
retirees than the CPI.

I trust the Committee will examine these issue in an effort to ensure somee
sort of fairness and reasonable outcome for public servants.

Roseanne Toohey