CalWest ; You're living on a different planet to elderly people who need to be showered and dressed within 5 mins every morning ; who may not eat their food because there are not enough workers to check ; Who will not receive urgent medical attention because there is no Registered Nurse on site. Do you have elderly loved ones? Do you have enough money to keep them in higher quality care? Do you care what other people may go through?

The logic of your argument is to totally dismantle the welfare state and social wage. And you don't seem to have a care - or any idea - of the consequences.

Yes the regulation of every day life is a regrettable symptom of the overall Aged Care system. Which is why the elderly need to be given options. For outings, discussions, books to read , or in today's world even internet. Very often elderly people are just sat down in front of a TV all day. Is that the kind of fate you want for your loved ones? But to give people options you need funding for resources and workers.

Phase three of the Coalition's tax cuts will cost over $95 billion over just 5 years. Tell me - where would you cut? Do you have any idea how much money that is and how deep the cuts would need to go? And do you have ANY idea of the human consequences?

Increasing energy prices can be largely traced to privatisation. The transition to renewables also has its cost for now ; and people on low to middle incomes should be fully supported during the transition.

Tristan, the Left is a one trick pony - spend other people's money on the latest half bright grandstanding, that's all they've got.

We need to "save" $95 billion? Good, save it as tax reductions, then people will be able to decide for themselves what they spend it on without any further advice from the creepy Left. And we could start with stripping out all of the costs imposed through RETs, subsidies and all the rest of the crap that goes with the global warming hoax.

Your naivete and confidence in the magical abilities of registered nurses is noted. While I admire the skills which nurses have, with the best will in the world, a registered nurse in a facility with, say, 80 residents, is not trained, educated or qualified to a level which would enable him/her to treat people with serious complicated illnesses. That's why we have specialists across the medical disciplines. You can't be taken seriously if you are proposing that a registered nurse, with the limited resources of a nursing home, would make any significant difference to health outcomes.

"The logic of your argument is to totally dismantle the welfare state and social wage." No, that's not the logic at all; you just made that up with your ridiculous exaggeration. The logic is that if creepy Leftists stopped trying to tell everyone else what could, must and should be done, people could make up their own minds about how they spend their own money.

"Increasing energy prices can be largely traced to privatisation." Not at all. Energy prices are now directly related to the level of subsidies of unreliable wind and solar energy generation, to the enforced inefficiency of renewable energy targets - yes, yes, one of Greg Hunt's dumb ideas - and to the demonisation of coal, which once delivered the cheapest electricity in the world to Australians.

But, as always, the Tristan Ewins solution is to throw more billions of other people's money around, with no thought whatsoever about who creates wealth or how.

That's the only idea you have.

Hey, Tristan,

Coincidentally, just found this: http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/task-force-eyes-93m-in-disability-fraud/news-story/8f0b5f3406c6aec01debce2a154a37e7

Seems that Labor's big spending programs attack crooks like blow flies.

Calwest ;

NDIS has a market based model of private provision which leaves it somewhat vulnerable. Would you rather straight state provision?

You knock the NDIS. What would you do about the needs of the disabled? Just 'let the market sort them out', eh?

https://theconsumervoice.org/issues/other-issues-and-resources/support-24-hr-rn-coverage-in-nursing-homes

https://hellocaremail.com.au/heres-need-nurse-resident-ratios-aged-care-homes/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-03/mandated-nurse-to-resident-ratios/9820452

Tristan, "Increasing energy prices can be largely traced to privatisation. The transition to renewables also has its cost for now ; and people on low to middle incomes should be fully supported during the transition", with this bit of rubbish you prove yourself to be either stupid, uneducated in things practical, or simply a globalist who will tell any lie to try to promote your cause. Which is it old mate?

No one with more than half a brain & an ounce of technical savvy could possibly believe the current crop of renewables can ever support the power needs of a modern society.

I suggest you stop commentating, & thus making a fool of yourself, go off & get some real education, then if you ever get enough technical understanding off how things work, come back & try again.

I do find it interesting that those whole life has been spent living off the taxpayer are always the ones to advocate more spending of tax payers money.