The strongest message from the room was not that aged care itself is failing. It was that older Australians are struggling to access care in the first place.
The broadacre harvest is upon us, yet Labor has stranded up to 50 per cent of the skilled workforce needed to get the crop in.
The broadacre harvest is upon us, yet Labor has stranded between 30 to 50 per cent of the skilled workforce needed to get the crop in. It is beyond condemnation.
Labor’s instinct is to redistribute wealth. The Coalition’s instinct is to create wealth— by backing Australians who take risks with their own capital, build businesses and employ others.
I am calling on Labor to take the handbrake off the harvest and get on with processing WHM visas and this week in Canberra have been taking up the fight for our farmers.
Working holiday makers (WHMs) have been a mainstay of Australian farming for decades and some very capable workers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland and South Africa come for harvest to run $1-2 million harvesters and other machinery
The services affected include psychology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise physiology, podiatry, dietetics and social work. These are not luxuries.
Social licence is the local permission from a community for government to proceed with a project because the community wants, or genuinely accepts, the project.
The Nationals stood firm against Labor’s mean-spirited $5,000 cap on allied health services for veterans. Veterans and all Australians rightly expect those who have put their lives on the line for our nation to access the care they need.
