The new Support at Home Program for older people is introducing a ‘free market’ transactional aged care system. It’s a retrograde step

Is this further evidence that the current federal Labor government is the least Labor-like government in the history of Labor governments?

  • Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Bill Shorten tried to do some seriously amazing ALP things and the country told them to go to hell and voted ScoMo.

    The ALP will never have the balls to try anything serious ever again.

    Every action they take is designed with the number 1 priority being “it has to be a policy safe from fear mongering”.

    Unfortunately for us that means nothing gets done. Nothing real anyway.

    • hanrahan@piefed.social
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      16 days ago

      Bill’s ideas were tepid, not even radical. We get the country the majority of voters wanted, a transactional shit hole of a place based around geeed and entitlement

      I vote Green and am disgusted by the callous choices of my fellow citizens make…

      Fuck me, why am i even here :(

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    18 days ago

    Fuck’s sake, how many times must you learn to keep capitalism the fuck away from social services? THEY’RE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED

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    18 days ago

    In before all of aged care services is just thrown up on airtasker.

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    18 days ago

    And here I thought the elderly didn’t really believe in anything, but they sure do believe in capitalism…

    • Joshi@slrpnk.netOP
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      18 days ago

      And here I thought the the Labor Party didn’t really believe in anything, but they sure do believe in capitalism…

      Fixed it for you.