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Singapore's defence spending is appropriate to its security environment and strategic requirements.

The Five Power Defence Arrangements remain a relevant framework for Singapore's regional security.

Singapore should invest more in cybersecurity and non-military security capabilities given the nature of contemporary threats.

National Service (conscription) remains essential to Singapore's deterrence posture and should be maintained.

Singapore should continue its policy of not formally taking sides between the US and China even under increasing bilateral pressure.

Singapore should introduce mandatory basic mental health screening in primary care as part of routine annual health checks.

Caregivers — disproportionately women — should receive direct financial support from the state for the economic value of their work.

Long hospital waiting times indicate that Singapore needs more public hospital beds and clinical staff.

Singapore's 3M (Medisave, MediShield, Medifund) framework is sound in principle but requires significant updating for an aging society.

Mental health services in Singapore are underfunded and carry too much social stigma — both must change through active policy.

Singapore needs a substantially larger public investment in eldercare as the population ages faster than the financing system can support.

MediShield Life premiums are too high for lower- and middle-income Singaporeans and should be more heavily subsidised.

Singapore should introduce a property gains tax to reduce speculative investment in HDB resale and private residential property.

The government should more actively regulate cost-of-living pressures, not only manage them through targeted subsidies.

Singapore's inequality, while lower than in many comparable cities, remains high relative to its level of human development.

Singapore needs a more progressive tax structure in which the wealthiest contribute proportionally more.

The CPF system is a strong model for retirement savings that should be strengthened rather than dismantled.

Singapore relies too heavily on low-wage foreign workers in ways that suppress wages and conditions for Singaporean workers.

HDB flats have become too expensive for young Singaporeans entering the property market for the first time.

Singapore should publish a national algorithmic register requiring public sector agencies to disclose AI systems used in decisions affecting citizens.