Open letter to the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull

as i am heading towards retirement and planning to spend some extended time overseas to make my retirement dollar go further.. a few close retired friends have been hit with a new rule which makes them come back and live in Australia for 2 years (dont know full details) to qualify to live overseas!!!! they had no notification or warning about this rule. even though they had visited centrelink regularly and asked if travelling overseas would affect their pension. They/We have paid a lot of tax over our working life so fair go!!! does anbody know of anbody in similar circumstances and if they where sucessfull in reversing this decision and how... 

Although I understand the need for refugees to have some support with initial costs, once established, (in a town of our selection, not theirs), they should not receive more than our pensioners do. It is a disgrace for tax paying senior citizens to struggle while people who have contributed nothing to our country get a better deal. There should also be a time limit on benefits and I support drug testing for benefits recipients. I think people who trash public housing should not be given another house at taxpayers expense. I support small cabins for the homeless such as in some overseas cities. These appear to be having great results with reducing unemployment, hospitalisation visits, crime, drug abuse and rapes. The reduced community cost in these things would more than pay for the cabins. I am sure you understand that to truly make the country prosper the government needs to invest in apprenticeships and incentives for small business to hire more staff and reduce the costs, red tape and taxes for small businesses. Stamp duty on properties should be removed for the family home and only applied to a second or subsequent property ownership and doubled or tripled for non Australian purchasers. This pressure from overseas buyers is making it completely unaffordable for our kids and young families to afford a basic family home, especially in Sydney. We need greater support for our Farmers and much clearer markings on overseas products, especially those that are produced here. All ideals, politics and idealism aside, our country needs firm business and productivity management, without extending our debt, and like any smart business does, throwing most of the expenditure towards jobs and productivity that will grow the country rather than at expenses with no return. We need to promote the theme of, "What can I, (the average citizen), do to improve Australia?, " rather than the '"I will get whatever I can from the Taxpayer," that seems to pervade society these days. 

DON'T BRING BACK THE SO CALLED CARBON TAX The Government treats the so called refugees better than the Australian population that built this great country , and they get away with breaking the law because it would be considered raceisim. Come on, fair go for Australians. 

Do you really believe Malcolm cares what we think? Malcolm is about Malcolm and what he wants , he is an atheist who wants to get the rewards without the hard yards. Mr Abbot was not perfect by any means but he worked to make Australia a better place for our children after the open slather spending of Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd. I place no trust in Mr Turnbull at all so see no point in asking him to consider the financial problems of the over 50's as he too distant from this group of Australians. 

DON'T BRING BACK THE SOCALLED CARBON TAX 

Angela from NSW I welcome the decision made by the Cabinet and look forward to a Prime Minister who is articulate, quick thinking, decisive and has the ability to not only,communicate a position effectively, but to instill confidence in general. Please God,he will not need to repeat every opening statement! What does not cease to amaze me, is the fact that so many Australians fail to recognize that the leader of the Party is indeed chosen by the party, in a democratic vote by Cabinet. In any election, state or federal, we vote for the Local member of our chosen party, not for the leader of party! I would like to congratulate Malcome Turnbull, and give him a go. I hope he takes our Fifty Ups concerns on board as they represent a large number voters! I too hope, this heralds a long awaited and much needed period of stability for Australia. 

Steady on chaps, no need for name - calling and bad language, it will scare others from commenting on their serious concerns. I know this is called the Angry corner but maybe there should be a naughty corner too! For us to be taken seriously by Govt. we need to be seen to be mature (as we are). 

Please Mr Prime Minister, please look at the plight of us pensioners who are trying to exist below the poverty line. Have to now cross grocery items off every fortnight & have had to cancel contents insurance to pay funeral insurance. Being chronically ill have to pay carers and so many extras needed to manage my condition. This fortnight have $1.25 left after bills and have to rely on St. Vincent de Paul to help with some food 

Hopefully, you will stop the sale of our country to foreigners and start to look after our farmers. Stop the banks from doing these dodgy dealings and back our farmers to the hilt. Also need to look after our own homeless people and the needy. No more foreign workers until all our own people are employed. No more refugees should be taken in either, until these challenges have been sorted. You could also sort out the drain on the public purse by politicians. We pay them enough without them also getting all the lurks and perks, and once they're out of office they should live off their own means. If you fixed this, you'd have the support of most Aussies. On another subject, how is it that all everyone seems to be worried about is gay marriage. Surely there are so many more important things on the agenda. I must say though that men marrying women, men marrying men and women marrying women seems to me to be a recipe for some majorly messed up children down the track. Heaven knows the human race is already stuffed up enough. Oh, that's right, it will put votes up for whoever puts the law into place. Good luck and please remember to take our opinions (if only) on board. I think the general populous has more sense than most of those elected. 

It is great to see the age of entitlement is over with the Ex PM only getting a measly $307542.00 per year, come on Mr Hockey give him something he could survive on like the normal age pension.