When these individuals commenced their working lives, they did so with the expectation of free aged care and an age pension . However, there was no free healthcare – most paid medical insurance to cover hospital costs and so on.
Thus, a person who has worked and paid taxes all their life, saved hard to pay off a mortgage and may also have accumulated some super, now must find funds to pay private-care owners around $400,000 for full-time care. . Some say: when the end of the world comes, I want to be in Western Australia because everything there happens 50 years late. Not so on this occasion. We simply opened our eyes to the bleeding obvious.The argument about Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan swings between the US House Speaker standing up to a bully by asserting her legitimate right to meet President Tsai Ing-wen and not to unnecessarily increase the already-high US-China tensions.
If we want peace in the Taiwan Strait and China to eventually become a constructive partner in world affairs, we have to understand and take the views and sensibilities of the wider Chinese population into our strategic consideration, just as the Chinese Communist Party has to.It’s disappointing that James Curran assigns the blame for the current Taiwan Strait crisis to Nancy Pelosi’s 19-hour stopover in Taipei .