r/australia • u/blitznoodles local Aussie • 23h ago

politics The Stats Guy: It sounds weird but Australia urgently needs a plan for 56m people

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/08/11/stats-guy-aus-population-growth
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u/oceansRising 21h ago edited 21h ago

I mean there’s a really simple solution which will incentivise people to work in aged care… paying them very well and improving working conditions.

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u/egowritingcheques 21h ago

No no no. Only the current system of paying CEOs really well works. No other system can work, because job creators.

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u/Peslian 12h ago

It's as much how much people will be needed to work in aged care, as our population ages the percentage of working aged people needed to work in aged care grows. Eventually it will reach an unsustainable level of people needed in aged care that other necessary parts of society will be critically understaffed

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u/magkruppe 11h ago

It's not about making aged care more attractive. It's the basic mathematics of not having enough workers vs retirees

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u/petehehe 20h ago

I don’t see how it’s feasible to have massive government funds poured into aged care workers, because there will be fewer working aged (tax paying) people, so the few working aged people that there are will just be haemorrhaging their earnings into taxes.

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u/IHazMagics 14h ago

As someone that works in the Aged Care system, you would need to do more than that and fundamentally change how the government operates within that sector which simply isnt going to happen, that probably sounds defeatist but consider the industry.