Here are the web links I’ve found over the last few days, posted a bit later than I’d intended. Cope.
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Excellent. It’s possible to wirelessly hack into a combination heart defibrillator and pacemaker and re-program it to shut down or deliver fatal jolts of electricity. Hat-tip to Memex 1.1.
Another day, another lobbyist for one specific community sector fails to understand what the Australia 2020 Summit means. This time it’s Professor Warren Hogan whinging that “the ageing population” isn’t mentioned enough.
As reported in that august journal Australian Ageing Agenda, Hogan reckons the “omission” of aged care from the Summit agenda is “inexplicable”.
“An immediate worry with the new Government comes from the failure to address any issues in aged care for the 2020 summit,” he said.
No, Professor Hogan, what’s really “inexplicable” are:
- Why you haven’t bothered looking at the list of topics at the Summit website, which clearly says: “Health — a long-term national health strategy — including the challenges of preventative health, workforce planning and the ageing population.” [my emphasis]
- How you reckon the Summit fails to address this issue when it hasn’t even happened yet.
I’m getting pretty goddam sick of the narrow-mindedness and short-term thinking shown by so many of the commentators so far.
My mate Bernard Kealey has scored the Sydney Morning Herald’s lead letter today for this scathing criticism of the NSW health system. Fight the good fight, brother!
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