THE solution is simple. Employ more nurses, more and better educated carers in aged care homes, 24/7 nurses plus a pay rise for all, including paramedics. Yes, we need all that. The federal government can afford that, even if it means more taxes, so the funding is not so much the problem. The problem is simply "where do we get the people?" You can't just pluck these people out of the air. So we are always at least two or three years behind in training the people we need for these and other health critical areas.
Luckily, people in public service areas have had an advantage over the past two years with job security and steady pay while those in private industry have had more reliance on programs like JobKeeper which did a remarkable job in saving many thousands of businesses but many more thousands were forced to close down or become bankrupt due to ongoing lockdowns. Yet in spite of this, the economy remains strong. We can afford to pay more to carers but the job starts now. Start the pre-training in our high schools, similar to how our trades are now being started off there.
