Reader response: What is one thing you wish the government would address?
As decision time draws near as to who will lead Australia, there’s no more important time for people to weigh in on the most important issues of the day.
To that end, we asked our readers: What is the one thing you wish the government would address?
Affordable housing, homelessness, the rise in the rental crisis and public housing are the topics that have received the most traction among our readers.
Many are in agreement that housing should become more affordable and as a nation we should work towards zero homelessness. This ties in with the rising cost of living as well.
Aged care and the pension rate were also big issues, with many feeling they’ve been ripped off by the means-tested pension system and others feeling concerned by the state of the medicare system, particularly for mental health care.
From climate action to affordable housing and more, here are just some of the hot-button issues you would like to see put front and centre in the coming years.
Pam Miller: The needs of the people they are meant to represent rather than their own avaricious desires.
Nicola Miller: Medicare.
Jill Doolan: Aged care facilities. Not just a little talk but a lot of action. The bottom line should not be their profit but the care and dignity of the elderly in their care.
Sheila Beaven: Raise pension payments to minimum wage and have couples paid from Centrelink as two separate people not 1.5 people.
Roswitha Stewart: Affordable housing and increase in rent allowances for private renters.
Val Quinn: More public housing.
Lizzie Barlett: How difficult it is for some people with serious mental health problems to negotiate Centrelink to claim entitlements that they desperately need.
Joan Garfui: Hospitals and schools.
Dorothy Estelle Winks: So many things to choose from. Top priority, climate action.
Robert Warner: Affordable dental health across the board covered by Medicare..!
Christine Higgs Warby: A rise in the aged pension.
Susan Burton: Housing and aged care.
Andy Mills: When politicians receive a pay increase, emergency services personnel should get the same percentage rise.
Image: Getty