Loving care at hospital
During a short stint in our beautiful new hospital emergency ward in late May before being taken to Canberra Hospital for surgery, I came home fully aware that we have the best of the best.
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The new Bega hospital is not only a fine building, it is complimented by genuinely loving people working there who go that extra mile to help.
Thanks go to the ambos who came within eight minutes of the call and many neighbours helping out my wife in distress.
The calmness and professionalism of all concerned together with your kindness is duly noted in my book of life. Well done.
Syd Dunstall, Bega
Election mantra
Jobs and growth, jobs and growth
To thee Malcolm I pledge my troth?
You promise to increase my wealth
Please show me how you do by stealth
Save us all by dumbing down
To get to school I sell my town
Medicare will get the bomb
Doctors now will cost a tonne
Your NBN has changed its name
No Bloody Network is now thy game
On climate change you have the goal
The answer is to mine more coal
Negative gear til my supers doubled
Not my problem the market's troubled
To sacred deficit we must bow
Til everafter just for now
Jobs and growth, jobs and growth
Please tell me do how we get both
Oh Malcolm please show me the way
How do we really make you sway?
Kym Mogridge, Tathra
History’s judgement
What will history say of us and our leaders? “They held an election on July 2nd in 2016”.
The second most shameful practice in their history, (after their treatment of the original inhabitants of the land) was left off their voting agenda.
The courage, creativity and morality of their leaders must have been under immense pressure.
Their disconnection from their hearts and souls so great that their fear, pride and fixation with “stopping the boats” under the guise of stopping the people smugglers was so strong that they managed to brainwash their whole nation into allowing them to keep thousands of refugees - desperate men, women and children as prisoners in horrific detention centres on small islands for years.
Some of the people woke up reclaimed their courage, sense of justice and compassion and began speaking out, challenging their leaders, marching in the streets, speaking strongly about the injustice, the immorality and inhumanity.
However, the media collaborated with the leaders and silenced or distorted their outcries.
Silenced too under pain of job loss the doctors and workers in these terrible detention centres.
So effective was this silencing coupled with the collaboration of the two major parties that the people allowed the elections to go ahead without any mention of this most shameful, unjust and inhumane policy.
Is there nothing we want to say or do to alter this historic record?
Patricia Dealney, Narooma
High school reunion
Please allow me room in your publication to advise of the Young High School 40 Year School Reunion to be held October 15 at Young Golf Club, Young.
This reunion is for students who attended from first form in 1973 to fourth form in 1976. Any student who attended in this class for any of these years is welcome to come. There is a Facebook page for the reunion, Young High School Year of 76 Fourth Form, where people can keep up to date with the information regarding the reunion.
Contact me on legs59@bigpond.net.au or 0409 130 589 for more information.
Debbie Longhurst, Young