The Greens do NOT want to cut the pension - Labor lies

This is so unbelievably stupid. WTF is Bill Shorten thinking? It's entirely simplistic and an out and out lie for the great majority of those recieving a pension in Australia:

Dead set. As if the Greens would cut pensions like that meme is blatantly suggesting. Perhaps Shorten is simply using this as an opportunity to say Labor differentiates between itself and the Greens, thus deflecting the age old Lieberal argument that a vote for Labor is a vote for the Greens? I dunno WTF, but it's just demonstrably plain wrong. In fact the Greens address this very meme in the media.

Greens leader Christine Milne says her party could consider supporting a proposal to reduce the part pensions of wealthy retirees, but only if the government agrees to a broad review of retirement incomes. 

The government is talking to crossbench senators about cutting $3 a fortnight from the age pension for every $1000 over an assets threshold. That proposal would not include the family home in calculations. 

It is being looked at as an alternative to the unpopular 2014 budget measure to reduce pension rises by linking the pension to inflation increases. 

Senator Milne said her party would look at the proposition, but denied a deal had been struck with the government. "At this stage it's simply the government flagging something," she said in Canberra on Thursday. 

On Thursday afternoon, the party reacted angrily to a post on Labor leader Bill Shorten's Facebook page stating: "Once again, the Greens are happy to do a deal with Tony Abbott and cut $80 a week from pensions." 

Greens spokeswoman on ageing Rachel Siewert said accusations the Greens wanted to cut pensions were "plainly false". 

"There is no deal. Bill Shorten should stop playing politics with pensioners for his own political gain and look at the facts," she said. 

"Any suggestion that the Greens want to attack pensioners is plainly false and will cause distress to people already living under significant pressure. Back off Bill Shorten.
 
"We need a review because this latest proposal comes after a string of potentially harmful budgetary measures that would dig into the pension through changes to indexation, and changing the retirement age." more

My bolding.

This is what ACOSS has been wanting. Like WTF are we doing paying a pension to people who are bloody millionaires FFS? Whilst people like me lurch from one financial crisis to the next? The Greens are agreeing with ACOSS and saying pensions for the well off should be means tested. Nothing more than that. The Greens continue to oppose Abbott's indexation attempts to rip $80 a week out of pensions across the board, thereby hitting those of us poor pensioners drastically. That is fair and reasonable.

Back off Bill.