In Estimates Rennick asked the Finance Minister why retired Canberra bureaucrats should be receiving pensions much higher than those in the private sector, especially when the bureaucrats were highly paid throughout their working careers. The cost of these pensions as modelled by the Finance Department is $335 billion for 165,000 retired bureaucrats. (I am not referring to the military pension.) This works out at $2 million per bureaucrat. There are 40,000 who receive over $75,000 at a cost of $137 billion or almost $3.5 million each despite these people being very highly paid throughout their careers. The fact that both major parties have sat on their hands about this shows they are in bed with the Canberra bureaucracy. Don’t believe them when they say they care about hard working Australians. They don’t. If they did they would stop this rort immediately. PeopleFirst is the only party that has a policy to end this theft of taxpayers money. #auspol UTL COMMENT:- WHAT AN ABSOLUTE SCAM!!!! WHY AREN'T AUSTRALIANS UP IN ARMS ABOUT THIS???? I AM SICK AND TIRED OF OUR BLOODY APATHY!!!!