This weekend the National Aged & Community Services Association staged their annual Conference in Melbourne. The Federal Minister for Ageing, Christopher Pyne, made a speech on Sunday followed by the Labor Shadow Minister, Jan McLucas on Monday. I sat through both presentations and the comparison was embarrassing; it was a whitewash by Labor.
The bright cloud on the horizon for the village industry is that both parties see a big role for villages in the future but that cloud may have a black lining rather than a silver one read on.