Now the population ponzi can kill as casualties overrun

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Via Domainfax:

Critically ill patients needing treatment within ten minutes have instead waited almost one hour for their treatment to start at one of Sydney’s major hospital emergency departments.

Across the state, one in four people presenting emergency departments waited too long to be treated, according to the latest Bureau of Health Information’s Quarterly Report.

Emergency departments in western Sydney – generally some of the state’s most over-stretched – recorded marked improvements.

Isolated improvements that don’t get Sydney’s West within a bull’s roar of the rich areas where population growth is minimal or non-existent.

So, the ponzi might actually kill you now, especially if you’re in the lower caste. And it will get much, much worse ahead as immigration booms:

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With Western Sydney localities like Parramatta projected to be the prime dumping grounds:

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And everything crush-loaded, including hospitals:

It’s complete madness.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.