O le tina o Merle Moore ua 103 tausaga lona soifua. Ae na ia ta'ua e le o iai sona faalogona o ia o se tagata ua 'ova i le 100 tausaga le matua.
"I don't feel 103! And I don't even feel 100. I'm beginning to enjoy it!... I suppose in my perhaps 80s and 90s, I can't get about as quick in my walking. But in my mind I'm young, not old."
O le a se fautuaga a Merle i ni auala poo metotia e faafualoa ai le soifua o se tagata?
"Oh no, I don't have any tips! I think if you look after yourself when you're growing up, and we were brought up on a farm and had good food, and I think we had to eat everything that was on our plate and enjoy it. And I think that's part of living we were brought up pretty strict."
O le tina ia Merle Moore, o se tasi o tagata matutua ua 'ova i le ta'i 100 tausaga le soifua i Ausetalia nei.
I le 1973, na o le to'a 226 tagata i Ausetalia na o'o i le 100 tausaga le matutua. O le tausaga na te'a nei, e to'a 6,121 tagata i Ausetalia ua ta'i 100 tausaga le matutua e aofia ai Merle Moore.
Na faaalia i le ripoti a le Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, ua si'itia fo'i le aofa'i o tagata ua o'o i le 80 ma le 90 tausaga le matutua.
O Richard Juckes e faaauluulu iai mata'upu i le aofa'i o tagata poo le Population Head i le Institute of Health and Welfare.
"We've found the life expectancy just keeps on increasing, it's really quite remarkable. Over the past 120 years, life expectancy has gone up by an average of three months every year, that is, every time four years passes, life expectancy has increased by a year."
I le 50 tausaga ua mavae, o le soifuaga o le itupa o tamaita'i na siitia i le 11.2 tausaga, ae 13.7 mo le itupa o alii.
O lona uiga i se vaaiga lautele, o tagata na fananau i Ausetalia i le va o le 2019 ma le 2021, e tele le avanoa o le o'o i le 81 tausaga e soifua ai poo lo latou life expectancy.
E faatusa lea i le 50 ma ona tupu tausaga o le life expectancy i le 1900.
Peta'i na saunoa Richard Juckes e 'ova atu loa i le 100, e le toe tele se avanoa e 'umi tele atu ai ona ua matua lava le tino.
"It's really striking that the there are more and more Australians living to be 80, or 90 or 100. But still, it's extremely rare for anyone to make it to 110. It doesn't seem to be much movement in that maximum age. So for example, the longest lived ever Australian according to our records, was a woman who died in 2002 at age 114. So that was 20 years ago, and the average life expectancy has gone up five years in that time. But over that 20 years, no one has managed to live longer than she did."
(Ripoti na faamaopoopoina e Claire Slattery, Rayane Tamer ma Biwa Khan mo le SBS News, tapenaina mo faasalalauga e Ioane Tiperio Lafoa'i)
