Some narrow, ageist, disappointing commentary on @abcnews this morning regarding aged-care provisions that may be in tonight's budget. Comments that went unchallenged! Elderly people deserve to be looked after after contributing a lifetime of taxes... 1/ #auspol #Budget2021

And I quote the commentator: “The reason that's an issue for someone like me (younger person who will grow old one day) and the market is that realistically, that group of people - between - 25 to 45, probably even up to 50, they would be expecting those people at 65 and over 2/

"to be moving into aged care or to be downsizing, leaving their home.

Now you have subsidy that allows them (elderly people) to stay still for all the way up to the horrible time of actual death." 3/ #auspol #Budget2021

"So, you are now again obstructing the actual movement that needs to happen, which is that you need families, young family, to get into these homes to actually be generating again the growth that we need." 4/
#auspol #Budget2021

5/'the growth that we need'??? What about the 'empathy that is so sorely missing that we owe to this group of people' Pick better commentators @abcnews We must oppose #ageism