The State insists on the right to life,

even with severely disabled people, therefore, the state must take responsibility and not just leave it to families
who struggle all their lives to look after disabled relatives often on a 24hour basis with hardly ever any respite,
while this country spends billions on aid for overseas people.

This country has a rapidly aging population and I doubt whether their will be enough nurses and finances
to look after the masses of those who will develop Alzhiemers and other age related conditions that make people bedridden
and unable to get to the toilet for one thing.
Again no right to choose Euthanasia.

So I hope all the posters here are ready to have the care of their aged relatives put back on their shoulders, as their life burden,
as those families in 3rd world countries have to do, because the government simply cannot do it.
Believe me this is what will happen.
Hope you all enjoy cleaning soiled sheets and clothes and never
being able to let dear old demented Daddy or Mummy out of your
sight.

It's highly probable that there will be no assistance like NDIS
forthcoming from a swamped government.

Yes CHERFUL, and sadly this is just the tip of the ice burg, as the past five plus years of total mismanagement, by the most incompetent government in history, has to be effecting someone.

Welcome to our new world, LABORLAND.

I propose we pull all the world aid money back home and
fund an insurance back-up for the care of the coming
aged population or otherwise set another place at the
table kids, for your in need of round-the-clock care
parents or grandparents or severely disabled in a car
accident relative.

We send 12billion a year to Indonesia,alone.
The Greens have just introduced a bill into parliament
to raise the percentage of the money we donate overseas.

Instead of the Greens crying for people in overseas
countries see if they can't fund the needs of their
own people here first.

CHERFUL - I don't know where you got the $12 billion from, officially we give Indonesia around $540 Million foreign aid, probably a few more million not accounted for.

We give foreign aid for schools, water etc which allows them to buy missiles and attack helicopters in place of looking after there own people which Australian taxpayers do.

Welcome to the world of International diplomacy and foreign aid.

Foriegn aid is somewhat similar to welfare, whereby we provide CASH in the hope that the recipients are going to use/spend it wisely. How dumb is that.

Give them (foreigners) our surplus goods, or perhaps we could use our resources, including our unemployed, to manufacture goods to send.

However, as has been said many times over, charity starts at home, and with cut backs looming in many areas, not to mention levies, there has not been a better time to act than right now.

I would even go further than that and say to the likes of Indonisian, if you can't stop the Australian bound boats leaving your ports, then we will use your forign aid money to address the issue.

rehctub,

Australia spends around 35 cents in every $100 on foreign aid.

0.35 percent of Gross National Income


There's something cringe-worthy listening to fortunate first-worlders revelling in their insularity and greed.

Always an education on this forum.