Your AM Headlines + Are Australians Living Too Long?

HEADLINES:

• Australians may soon be able to force social media companies to destroy their personal information.

• The average annual total cost for a child to play in a community sport competition is growing.
• Australia is taking a first step towards better understanding motor neurone disease, in a move aimed at getting closer to a cure.

• A major push to tackle hundreds of thousands of potholes is underway, with one state turning prisoners for help.

• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly being put up by a famous friend as they settle back into life in the UK.

Australia has one of the longest life expectancies in the world, but we also have the second-largest healthspan-lifespan gap globally, meaning the average person spends around 12 years sick before they die.
On this episode of The Quicky, we look at why that's happening: a medical system so good at keeping people alive that doctors treat death as a failure to be intervened against, even in someone's final days.
We hear from author Lucinda Holdforth (Going On and On) on the toll this is taking on informal carers - 85% of whom are women - many in the "sandwich generation" caring for ageing parents and young children at once.
Plus, why voluntary assisted dying isn't the only answer, and how palliative care could offer more dignity at the end of life.

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Host: Charlotte Mortlock

Audio Producer: Scott Stronach

Group Executive Producers: Georgie Page and Tamsin Rose

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