Savage scenes in Melbourne last week as thousands of pensioners refused to put their clothes back on until a clearly broken Wayne Swan gave them all the money, in the form of a pension increase.
One of the biggest issues to come out of the first Rudd Government budget was that there was no increase in the base pension. All they wanted was an extra $30 a fortnight. In Sydney, 2UE’s John Laws wannabe Steve Price and A Current Affair‘s Ben Fordham have brought up the issue again and again. Week after week of crying on-air about the evils the new Labor government had done to pensioners. Stories about poor pensioner-star Betty and her fight against the Man!
