Ageing Aussies strip in pension protest

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

MELBOURNE (AFP) — Protesting pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Australia's second largest city on Friday when some stripped to demand more money from the government.

The scantily-clad seniors braved the autumn weather in a 150-strong protest against this week's federal budget, which offered them little despite a 21.7 billion dollar (20 billion US) surplus.

Most at the "Fair Go for Pensioners" rally at the intersection of two major streets in downtown Melbourne kept their clothes on, but several threw convention to the wind and stripped to their underwear.

As bemused police looked on, a bespectacled man stripped to his briefs and socks, while a couple of lively ladies whipped off their tops and paraded in their bras.

Other women wore hot...