7 June

“We must act now, the baby boomers are coming," she said. "Within a decade, our nation will have, for the first time in history, more people aged over 65 than under 18.” Australia will be one giant aged care facility, like all developed nations. Also the demographic holding nearly all of the nation’s wealth. They’re going to have to pay more, and they’re not going to like it. In the meantime the anti-immigration folk are going to have to explain who is going to care for all of the wrinklies, while keeping everything else running in society at the same time.