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They’re dropping like flies, but they’ll still get paid! When we’re back in parliament for the Budget, I’ll move to totally scrap politician’s pensions– which half of the 20 pollies retiring before the next election are set to receive. While politicians elected after 2004 don’t receive a parliamentary pension, those elected before then (like rumoured-to-be-retiring Ministers Pyne and Ciobo) will get hundreds of thousands of dollars each year as a pension, for doing nothing. Pollies have their snouts in the trough while ordinary people struggle with the cost of living. It’s time that taxpayer money went to those who actually need it.