Letter

In response to Proposed New Aged Care Act leaves gaps in rights.

Aged Care Overboard

We should not be surprised by this back-to-the-future approach to Aged Care, though. When Minister Wells proclaimed at the National Press Club that “the boomers are coming”, it was so reminiscent of previous government Ministers and Prime Ministers bleating a warning about “the boats are coming”. I half-expected her to add “stop the boomers”. All that remains now is for someone to accuse older Australians of throwing their bedpans overboard, or even worse, having WMOs, weapons of mass obstruction. I wonder which Minister will have a model of a walking frame on their desk with the inscription, “I stopped the boomers”.

— Brian Corless from Gerringong. NSW