What a year! But it’s just the beginning
Hi Fellow Members,
Well, some say life begins at 40 … others say it begins at 50 … but here at FiftyUp Club we believe it begins at one!
No, I haven’t lost the plot (yet), but in almost one fast year our Club has made a big difference and we’re out to celebrate.
As you know we started the Club out of a belief that Australian consumers over the age of 50 deserve a better deal.
We have spent the past year informing and educating the public, politicians and corporate Australia about three simple facts.
1. We are better customers
2. We have contributed more than our fair share to Australia’s success
3. We are feeling the pinch from rising prices
And we have 93,750 reasons to push to the next level – all of them you, our members.
So as we head towards our first birthday we are going for the big 100.
We’re calling it the “Push For 100,000”, and we’ve got about 6,250 to go.
As you know, we’ve been busy advocating on areas of health insurance premiums, older workers, electricity prices and even National Service.
And we’ve had special offers on car insurance, electricity, life insurance, petrol, solar panels and more.
Stay closely tuned and please encourage more friends and family to come on board.
We plan to hit the magic 100,000 mark, and celebrate our first birthday with a bang: 10 special offers for you, Australia’s best customers.
I wasn’t here at the start, but put my hand up to be your Chairman earlier this year.
In the past six months I’ve seen our numbers grow, and the quality of our offers getting better all the time.
I have met with Federal Health Minister Peter Dutton and worked closely with Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan to achieve our goals.
I have spoken and written to many of you and sometimes feel your frustration.
But if I have learned one thing it’s this, the more of us there are, the bigger our numbers, the faster the wheels turn.
According to the Federal Government’s intergenerational report we made up about 10% of the workforce in 1980 and that’s projected to swell to 20% by 2050. In other words, there’s no dispute about our contribution.
So let’s get to it over the next few weeks. We are already the elephant in the room of corporate Australia. Let’s become a bigger elephant to celebrate our first year.
Something tells me the photographers would just love a shot of 100,000 of us huddled around a cake to blow out one candle!
