Leadership Team On The Road

September 06, 2009 09:06

The Nationals Leadership Team of Leader Warren Truss, Deputy Leader Nigel Scullion, Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce (that's me) and Senate Deputy Fiona Nash toured northern NSW this week to hear what the people in the electorates of Page, Richmond, Cowper and Lyne had to say about the ETS and other issues.

Guess what? I couldn't find one person who wanted the ETS, or the CPRS as the Rudd Government now calls it. The Employment Termination Scheme and the Extra Tax System are now called the CPRS, that's CP for Cunning Plan to take us to a double dissolution election and RS is the state the economy will be when we get there.

We met people who are working hard to secure their futures, we met employers who are responsible for hundreds of families and we met people interested in what the Nationals have to offer for Regional Australia.

We will not as a party support any policy or legislation that puts the 7 million people who live in Regional Australia at any disadvantage to those who live in the major urban areas.

The CPRS will do exactly that and we cannot support it.

The other major issue affecting people in the regions is health and the state of the hospitals. The Nationals released a Regional Health policy at the Federal Council in Canberra in August that calls for a Regional Health Minister and the return of local hospital boards. The health of regional hospitals will continue to ail while decisions are made at arm's length. Local knowledge is the best cure for bad spending decisions that are made by incompetent state governments.

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# Ken E Murray

Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:10 AM

Good on you for touring and reconfirming that a large proportion of us do not agree with the politically-driven hoax science of "global warming" via carbon dioxide.

We have trillions of trees and vegeation loving carbon dioxide and turning it into the ongoing amazing balance of oxygen, with the nitrogen and other gases ...as has been happening for aeons of time.

Yes indeed. I have lived in various country regions in NSW and Qld and when we had the local town voluntary Hospital Boards, there were adequate doctors and nurses in our Regional Hospitals.

Why because??

Because, the precious finances were more efficiently directed to paying for actual doctors and nurses and good equipment, rather than top heavy Administration. "Yes Minister"

Now we have so much hostpital Administration and paper shuffling in our Hospitals, there is not enough financial resources to spend on the real purpose of hospitals in the first place ...proper medics and nurses for the patients.

# kidney infection symptoms

Friday, October 30, 2009 11:57 PM

Now we have so much hostpital Administration and paper shuffling in our Hospitals, there is not enough financial resources to spend on the real purpose of hospitals in the first place ...proper medics and nurses for the patients.

# JEANIE

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:51 AM

DEAR BARNABY, NURSE JEANIE CALLING, S.E.,QLD..., WOULD YOU PLEASE CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF INTRODUCING A " WITHOUT PREJUDICE " NURSE SECRETARIAT, ATTACHED TO THE HOUSE OF REVIEW, WHERE YOU SIT....? EXPERIENCED REGISTERED NURSES WHO CAN ASSIST IN THE PLANNING OF 'ACROSS THE BOARD' HEALTHCARE........NURSES WHO CAN GO TO TROUBLESPOTS AND GET 'STRAIGHT TO THE PROBLEM.'...NO PAPER-SHUFFLERS WHO TAKE WEEKS TO REPORT BACK TO THE LOWER-HOUSE WHY A WAR- VETERAN WAS BITTEN OVER AND OVER BY MICE IN A NURSING HOME [AS SEEN ON A-PAC SOME MONTHS AGO IN QUESTION-TIME IN LOWER HOUSE]...GOVT. RESPONSE WAS SIMPLY, "WE'LL REPORT BACK LATER ON".....NOT GOOD ENOUGH MR.RUDD!!!! COALITION RESPONSE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TO PUT SOMEONE ON A PLANE, STAT, AND CLOSE THE NURSING HOME DOWN.........HOW TO PAY FOR THIS NURSES SECRETARIAT?....THANKYOU 4 ASKING BARNABY....1ST, CUT THE LUDICROUSLY 'TOP-HEAVY ' HOSPITAL BEAURACRACIES. NURSES ARE FED- UP WITH THIS WASTE OF MONEY...ALSO IT DOES NOT ALWAYS WORK WITH US IN ANY FORM....WE HAVE ALSO LOST THE RIGHT 2 BE INVOLVED IN PLANNING PROCESSES....NURSES KNOW WHAT THEIR COMMUNITIES NEED..WE ARE THE 'FRONT -LINE'..USE US 4 THAT WHICH WE DO BEST..........CARING, PLANNING, RECOGNISING THE HEALTH NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES.WE ARE TRAINED IN EVERY ASPECT OF ASSESSMENT. WITHIN HOSPITAL-SETTINGS AND IN OUR COMMUNITY. Kind Regards, Jeanie P.S. I BAGS BE FIRST VOLUNTEER...

# Annette Powell

Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:03 PM

Please stop the madness of the ETS. We have just come out of one financial crises and the PM is rushing us iheadlong into the bigggest financial catastrophe we will ever face.

Under the Treaty of Copenhagen, paragraph 41 - that annexure - 7% of our GNP will be grabbed from us by the UN and we can never get out of that treaty. This means that wages, before tax, will be UN taxed by at least 7% before they are taxed by our government. Plus there will be huge taxes on absolutely everything we need to purchase, food included. Electricity and gas prices will sky rocket. We need energy to run our fridges, at least.

There will be a huge carbon leak - ie, companies will be forced to go offshore. Under free trade agreements, the so-called under developed countries commodities will be hugely cheaper than ours - so, again, our businesses will go bust. Should we overshoot our emmisions, there will be again enormous fines.

Why is our Government at war with us?

Please stop this madness.

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