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APPENDIX 1 - (Incorporated in Hansard 0n 29 March, 1990 at page 1070)

THE CANBERRA TIMES - 29 MARCH 1990

Concessions

on trains

Received March 26

RESIDENTS of NSW who are 60

years of age or more and not en-

gaged in full-time employment and

not a holder of a TC 1 (traveller's

concession) card issued by the De-

partment of Social Security or the

Department of Veterans' Affairs

eligible for a Concession Authority

card which entitles them to Pension-

er Excursion Tickets and half fare

on the SRA and various other govt

services.

ACT residents are not allowed

this concession eVen though we use

the SRA trains etc.

Queanbeyan “concession” travel-

lers pay $27.70 while Canbern resi-

dents, a few kilometres away, have

to pay $55.40 for a return rail ticket

to Sydney. Is this fair'?

In spite of repeated request to

the local Assembly and Members of

Parliament, nothing has been done

to rectify this obvious injustice.

J. P. WILSON

Turner