Aged care homes
I would like to make a comment about the current situation with regard to aged care facilities.
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Because of the coronavirus, these places were locked up a little while ago, so that residents could not go out and no visitors were allowed in.
This has been a dreadful situation for all the residents, who haven't seen any visitors for several months.Last weekend, I was listening to people, including the Prime Minister, saying this was sad or cruel and that visitors should be allowed in, but only family members. I heard it again on Leigh Sales' show 730 tonight.I have written to the Prime Minister and sent a message to Leigh Sales tonight. I want everyone to understand that not all residents of aged care facilities have living family, or family living nearby, or perhaps they never married and never had a family. Do the lucky people who have family, and even better, family near by, get to sit and chat with their visitors while the poor residents with no family sit by, watching with sadness or envy and pretend to sleep.It is great that people, right up to the Prime Minister, have suddenly realised what a dreadful mistake it was, turning these aged homes into prisons. But I will work hard until everyone understands that the "family only" decision was made by people who have not thought this whole thing through.
Jan Morris, West Tamworth
Victory in Europe
It is difficult to imagine the emotions felt 75 years ago on 8 May 1945 when Victory in Europe was declared, and the war against Germany came to an end.
In Australia celebrations were undertaken excitedly but with the knowledge that, closer to home, the war in the Pacific against Japan was still to be won. The depth of relief was reflected by the estimated 100,000 people that attended a service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne the following day.
Australian men and women served in the European and Mediterranean theatres from the beginning of hostilities in September 1939 and Victory in Europe was a cause for great celebration in Allied nations and meant that thousands of Australians, including recently released prisoners of war, could return home.
Tragically, more than 10,000 Australians were killed, nearly 10,000 more were wounded, and almost 8,000 became prisoners of war in the war against Germany and her European allies.
This year, on 8 May we pause to remember the significance of the Allied victory in Europe and the men and women whose service and sacrifice helped bring about Germany's defeat.
Later this year on 15 August, we will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, when Victory in the Pacific was declared.
As a nation we will stand together to remember the service of the more than one million men and women and the sacrifice of the some 39,000 men and women who died protecting our country during the Second World War in all theatres and campaigns.
Lest we forget.
The Hon Darren Chester MP
Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Defence Personnel
Nationals hypocrisy
The gall of Kevin Anderson to spruke ownership of the QNI powerline project under his letterhead.
Neither he or the Nationals had and has nothing to do with this project and his line "this is just one of the ways we're delivering on our commitment to keep the lights on, put food on the tables of our locals and to keep power costs down for the people of the region" is an affront to the electorate and a slap in the face of the multitude of people who took this project from proposal to reality.
With his "very original" line "build it and they will come"(apologies to Kevin Costner), it should be "sell it and they will leave".
Kevin Anderson did not give a rats about TransGrid workers when he sold them down the river five years ago just to get himself re-elected and to pander to his mate, Mike Baird.
He has the gall to spruke that he and the Nationals have now replenished the region with jobs and money.
People need to wake up to these self pandering imbeciles who parachute themselves to any cause they think will boost their self-centered profile while basking in the belief that people can't see through their two faced masquerade.
We need a member with strength and belief, not a puppet on training wheels being led around by the nose by the Liberals.
Bob Snell, Tamworth
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