OLDER people without smartphones are struggling to check-in to local businesses, says Jenny Mobbs, CEO of Council on the Ageing ACT.
“Lots of older people don’t have a smartphone, and we’re hearing that they’re being made to feel like an inconvenience to businesses,” she says.
“We’ve had people met with confusion, or made to wait while they find someone who knows what to do or to take their details.”
This has been echoed by letter-writer Jeanne O’Malley in this week’s Seven Days column, who wrote complaining of the loneliness of facing “an electronic wall of resistance” in managing the mandatory covid app sign in.
CANBERRA returnee MICHAEL FINCK, of Chapman, is happy to be home after 35 years away, but he’s far from impressed with the roads…
I MOVED back to Canberra two years ago and am happy to be back after 35 years away. However, while the nation’s capital has moved ahead significantly, its roadways haven’t.
I travel on the Tuggeranong Parkway/Caswell Drive/Gungahlin Drive (that’s a mouthful in itself) daily. And what a disgrace â a major roadway with ridiculous speed limits and poor-quality roadway.Â
In my opinion, it should be modelled on Sydney’s newer freeways such as the M7 with electronic speed limits that can be adjusted for peak-hour traffic (say 90/100km/h) then change to 110km/h at other times.Â