Lucinda Holdforth

So there's a great understandable desire to give people independence and to say you can keep driving.

We want you to sort of feel independent.

And yet that poses in some cases a terrible risk.

And what I saw with my dad, he did three driving tests he should not have passed.

So he gets tested by another old guy.

and he comes home and he says, oh, no, I'll be right.

So I know that more measures have been put in place in New South Wales, where I live, but I think there's such a cultural anxiety about being seen to be ageist.

I think we need common sense to have a bigger role in the way we think about these things.

Well, I know that in medicine...

And this is something that I can't really speak to with great authority because there's very little public material about this.

But I did find out that...

doctors over the age of 70 are three times more likely to be the subject of complaints.

And the only way doctors can be, you know, taken off the books is through a complaint process.

So doctors over 70 are three times more likely.

I talked about this with someone with doctors in a family and she said, but there aren't enough doctors.

And I said, well, there would be enough doctors if we actually provided places for their education.

There's plenty of smart young people who could become doctors.

Well, they're things that really are being talked about now.

So negative gearing is a big thing.

That's part of the Australian way of life is you grow up and you get a house, or you get a flat in my case.