The CWA state conference voted in favour of making a submission to the Rudd government's Pensioner Review, after modifying a motion tabled by the Wynyard branch yesterday.

The 100 CWA delegates travelled from all over the state to meet in Devonport.

The conference heard greatest living costs for singles and couples were fixed for both, including rent, power bills, rates, car costs and insurances.

The CWA will ask for the single pension to become aligned to the basic wage, after the conference heard an elderly couple could expect to receive $898.20 a fortnight, or $197.80 less than the basic wage, and a single pensioner is asked to survive on $537 a fortnight, or $279.50 under the basic wage.

CWA state president Elizabeth Clark said attendance at yesterday's conference was up on previous years.

She believed increased interest was because of the CWA's active political and community voice and continued relevance to Australian life.

"We're the largest women's organisation in Tasmania, with 550 members," Mrs Clark said.

Also passed yesterday was a motion urging the State Government to introduce class-based driver education for the issue of provisional licences.

It followed a presentation by Burnie Community Road Safety Partnerships Committee member Robert Bentley.

The conference voted in favour of asking the Australian Medical Association Tasmania branch to encourage medical rooms to use clearly and slowly recorded answering machine messages, particularly when listing emergency phone numbers.

A CWA delegate told the conference she could understand people ringing 000, after a call to a doctor's surgery was terminated before she could take the emergency numbers down.