The ABS updated its biannual series on life expectancy yesterday, and, according to the numbers, you will now, on average, die a few months earlier than before Albo’s election win.
We should probably acknowledge some role for COVID, given that the dip has been a global phenomenon. We can ship that home to Albo’s mates in China.
Or, can we blame Albo directly? His immigration-led economic model is openly crush-loading health care.
Elective surgery waiting times have blown out.
Admission times have blown out.
ED waiting times have blown out.
It is probably fair to say that this plays a role in reducing life expectancy.
Some might say we need the migrants to service the aging population, but that ignores the migration contribution to health care demand, the same issues as housing, and everything else.
It’s chasing your tail. Rising wages and automation are a much better way to meet labour demand, as well as improve living standards.
If you want an extra 16 months of this vicious life, then Switzerland is your best bet.
Certainly, while you’re still here, Albo has made you uniquely poorer.
I can’t really think of two more important measures of government success or failure, except, perhaps, for this.
One of Australia’s most distinguished ex-soldiers has blindsided Anthony Albanese over defence spending in a blunt Remembrance Day warning that the nation was complacent about the growing threats to its security.
Retired army major-general and outgoing national RSL president Greg Melick said “even Neville Chamberlain”, the British prime minister who tried to appease Adolf Hitler, belatedly re-armed in the chaotic run-up to World War II.
With the Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles looking on at the Australian War Memorial, Mr Melick stunned an audience studded with top military brass by using the Remembrance Day commemorative address to blast Australia’s defence settings and spending.
Albo’s cowards: failing at everything important since 2022!
