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Tanya decided against the 'trap' of motherhood. She wants to see more adult-only spaces (www.sbs.com.au)
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[–] bignose@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

We don’t have enough people now that want to help. Go to any nursing home and see that we need to import the help.

Don't want to help? At the pay rates and job conditions on offer, that's right.

An obvious solution is to raise the offered pay (by whatever means; the government can certainly afford to subsidise this) and improve the job conditions (by regulation enforcing proper treatment of workers).

There are plenty of people already here willing to work, if the work is properly remunerated and stable and dignified. If the job is worth doing – as we both agree it is – then let's show that, by making it feasible for plenty of people to have a dignified life doing that work.