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23.01.2022 Hip and shoulder replacements are to be removed from Medicare. I'm pinching myself to see if this news is real. Have the nationals supported this change to Medicare? I look at my fellow members of the Nationals in Indi (especially), and Euroa and Nicholls and I see the majority of members are in the "seniors" category. Many in the 80's plus age group and still turn up to meetings to bring experience and stability to the party. Now they are on the front line for hip and sho...ulder replacements. Will they take this change sitting down? I think not! It will be interesting to see how long it is before another meeting of the party is called in these seats. Will the office bearers wait until the news dies down? We will watch and see!! Morrison and Hunt again fail to deliver in the Health field. I hope you are all well protected with your vaccine jabs!! If you are then you are among the 5% of Australians who are!! 5% after 3 months of the vaccine distribution!! How can we be so slow? See more
21.01.2022 Nationals! Do you get as exasperated as I that we have clowns running our systems? Again the gig economy is shown to be a disaster. It keeps the workers under control but has again allowed the virus to run amok. The privatisation of the system, working on the profit motive to supply essential health services has been exposed. That the pathetic performance of the vaccine roll out in Australia is a testament to the inefficiency of the outsourcing model again is again exposed.... When will we ever learn? It is mildly amusing to hear the excuses being rolled out, but also frustrating. How long will the Australian public put up with this way of organising out public service as seen presently through this health emergency? What a bleeding mess!! NSW's turn now to have a runaround!! Incidentally where is the expansion of the manufacture of vaccines in Australia, especially the mRNA and other advanced forms? Morrison is waltzing around Europe, sorting our "submarines" due for delivery in 2054. How many more novel viruses will emerge in that time. We've had about 5 new viruses in the last 20 years. So.....! Imagine if Ebola mutates, or Hendra for that matter. Where is the plan? See more
19.01.2022 Nationals, just where are we heading? Both the labor and liberal camps of politics are reaping the disdain of the Australia public. We as Agrarian Socialists have the background and understanding to show clearly where we stand. We understand and work with the capitalist system but with the clear understanding that we accept the need for strong social standards. We are first and foremost a society. This functions well at the level of regional towns but when the labor party... or the liberals get hold of the system they extrapolate and destroy the system. We are getting too close to the liberals and need to take a long hard look into the future. The potential to cope with the enormous changes rolling toward us can best be handled by our belief structure. We need to be ahead of the game. Rapid change is with us for the foreseeable future so what do we see emerging? Marvelous developments in medical science are already with us, yet the liberals have cut funding to research centres for budget after budget. Then they throw a token few dollars to research, with much fanfare, that doesn't undo the enormous damage their general policies have done. Our education system has been divided into the haves and have nots, the latter sadly too often in our regions. This is more than a lack of funding. Australians can see clearly from the architecture of the schools to the associations involved that one class of people is entitled to an education with bells and whistles and most importantly contacts which the others aren't. Yet our performance continues to fall on the international PISA ratings. A call is out to comment on the curriculum offering in our schools without any mention of the impact of algorithms used to reinforce or bend peoples thinking in social media. This is perhaps the most insidious development in the digital world. Algorithms, once set up, continually monitor our interests and thinking and build knowledge of us as individuals that are frighteningly accurate in predicting our behaviour. How do we come to grips with this as a society? The marketers love it, but their short term advantage may well turn into disaster. So Nationals we need to take a step back from the trends that have developed in the liberals and reset our course closer to that of our founders. Values matter. See more
12.01.2022 Well Rational Nationals, we have a new leader! Now he stands some hope of support from down south here if he moves for the establishment of a Federal ICAC as one of his initial moves. Bet your socks he'll be after financial and personal support come election time so he'd better start listening to party members, not just coal donors and his clique up north. If he moves Darren Chester, then asks me to man a polling booth, guess what the answer will be? But as a first move, I su...ggest he bone up on the life and works of "Black Jack" McEwen. He'll then learn of the need for manufacturing industries, not digging holes in the ground for later generations to rejuvenate. He'll also come to understand that a set of values are indispensable. Time is well overdue for the funds that can be spent in the north to be spent on developments for the future. PV tiles are one suggestion and pharmaceutical industry establishment drawing together the strong intellectual base in Sydney and Melbourne is another. We rely on overseas manufacture for the vast bulk of these products. That is not sustainable. Our oil reserves are parked on the East coast of America. How long will it take to ship them to Australia in an emergency, that is if we can get ships and get them loaded? Of course we don't happen to have a maritime fleet these days. I wonder who bought them? So some more refineries in Queensland would offer jobs and give us some more fuel certainty for the future. Then Barnaby you can re-invigorate our STEM program. There's votes there! So for an easy first move, start a significant housing program in regional Australia to house all the Pommy visa holders that are going to rescue our farmers from their labour shortage. That's a double whammy, jobs and housing for the future! Infrastructure funds have been at our disposal for about 8 years so we have some catching up to do. See more
06.01.2022 From a nurse manager in regional Victoria. https://www.theguardian.com//from-board-member-to-gardener
