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Blueprint for an ageing Australia : Comments

By Everald Compton, published 4/9/2014

If we act now, we can ensure that we will turn ageing into a significant social and economic asset, not a liability, and the Blueprint for an Ageing Australia that we present to the nation today strives to do exactly this.

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1. Australia – export ageing services to the world. Pull the other one. We can’t manage our own aged services. Woefully under prepared and resourced.

2. Seniors as entrepreneurs – total fantasy. Older people are considered a drag on society – look up aged prejudice.

3. Establish a Seniors Entrepreneurs Institute. WTF?

4. Aged prejudice – actually the private sector is good; the public sector is a shocker.

5. Philanthropy? Good grief. There has never been a culture of philanthropy in Australia and as for ‘Golden Givers’ – shockingly condescending.

Stopped reading. Who is advising you, Everard?
Posted by Malcolm 'Paddy' King, Thursday, 4 September 2014 7:31:51 AM
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Whoops - point four - private sector is a shocker, public sector relatively good.
Posted by Malcolm 'Paddy' King, Thursday, 4 September 2014 8:19:07 AM
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These problems call for understanding, common-sense and a commitment to fairness, so we can forget any change, those things aren't even IN the Abbott Government Handbook.
Posted by G'dayBruce, Thursday, 4 September 2014 9:55:42 AM
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How can you grow older faster?
The usual and only rate is one year per year.
Posted by ateday, Thursday, 4 September 2014 10:12:52 AM
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How many old people are you employing, G'day Bruce?
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Thursday, 4 September 2014 10:59:08 AM
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Everald; Sorry mate but, the problem with thinking inside a very small circle of limited and repetitive ideas, is the questions are limited!
And given the questions are limited, so also are the answers.
What we really need to address the destiny of demography, is something a little more practical than your wish list.
I read Hemingway's, The old man and the sea.
The old man caught the biggest fish he'd ever seen, and hung on grimly, through sheer stubbornness, even thought the effort nearly killed him.
And you somehow remind me of that stubborn and incredibly obtuse old man.
Now you just need to let go of the extremely dated ideas mate.
Your MUST DO list is just too big for small thinkers, like today's.
Who are just working at being small targets/blame shifting, not vision.
And sadly, future vision is what we need, and the only way we can deal effectively with the destiny of demography.
If it's broke, fix it, or failing that, throw it out!
And that's what's needed for the totally trashed tax system, and replace it with a single stand alone broad based tax; that taxes all expenditure, rather than some of it.
And that has to include all international remittances and transfers, if only to shrink the black market/oblige tax avoiding transnationals pay in fair measure, with the level of business done/profit extracted here!
These folks pay little or none, yet expect all the same tax funded facilities, when doing business or commerce here!
There's no free lunch, let alone free limos and Lear jets!
And that multinational mischief is costing the budget bottom line up to 100 billion per?
What's the size of the deficit/debt? Well?
We simply cannot continue to carry/service a foreign debt burden nearly as large as China's foreign reserve.
If we could but eliminate the profit demanding middle man/broker, we could all but halve the cost of living and indeed, put huge downward pressure on the wages/cost spiral!
Tassie's single malts are BEST!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Thursday, 4 September 2014 11:05:12 AM
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