Right now more than 230,000 Australians are waiting for aged-care services. The average wait time is 12 months, and 5,000 people have died while on that waiting list.
In this budget, the government has reverted to deflection, echoing its earlier response to global conflicts by blaming external factors, instead of accepting responsibility
Now, the proposed Federal Government CGT changes threaten to significantly erode the very assets and retirement savings we have spent a lifetime building.
Labor's energy policies do not deliver energy bills savings for regional Australians. Rather, they deliver pain. Australians have worked out this part-time minister for energy for the snake oil salesman that he is!
As I have said publicly, the NDIS must support those who truly need it, but right now it is not working as it should. We know there is fraud. We know money is being wasted. We know some providers are gaming the system.
We made the formal announcement the next morning in Maryborough, and I've got to say that the farmers present, who have been fighting for years for this to take place, have felt so threatened.
The Australian government must work with state governments to ensure systemic and institutional issues within the hospital system are investigated and dealt with.
A question a Senate inquiry might ask stakeholders is whether they specifically wanted a broad general prohibition, as this government has put forward. Consumer stakeholders may have wanted action taken.
There are 200,000 elderly Australians waiting to get assessed or to receive home-care support. Last time we checked, 5,000 people had died waiting to get onto aged-care support.
