‘The Feed’ Has Proposed A Baby Boomer Resettlement Program And Honestly, We’re On Board
"It is going to take a carrot and stick approach ... traditionally boomers are very resistant to change."
The team at The Feed have come up with an alternative to the government’s plan to bar immigrants from settling in major cities: rather than forcing skilled migrants to settle in regional Australia, why not ship all the baby boomers off there instead?
Honestly, I think they might be on to something.
In the sketch, the head of the “Boomer Resettlement Program” makes the case for the proposal.
“We’re looking at 4 million baby boomers retiring over the next 10 to 20 years,” she explains. “Quite frankly, it’s unsustainable.”
“It is going to take a carrot and stick approach to get the boomers to move,” she says. “Traditionally they’re very resistant to change. So for the last 15 years or so we’ve been running a deep psy-ops campaign to try and romanticise the idea of living in the country … shows like SeaChange, A Place To Call Home, Doctor Doctor, A Country Practice, 800 Words. Boomers love that shit.”
“If that doesn’t work, we’ll push them out,” she adds. “We’ll ban the following from metropolitan areas: midweek tennis competitions, writers festivals, Sculptures by the Sea, the real estate section of the newspaper, cryptic crosswords [and] any Shaun Micallef program.”
Watch the full sketch below.