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Red Cross passing on ’stacks’ of complaints

January 13, 2009 – 2:11 pm

A little while ago I wrote about my revulsion at the NSW Government’s decision to rip apart the Australian ethos around blood donation: ‘freely given, freely received’. Yesterday, Red Cross rang me in response to my email of complaint and said they had received ’stacks’ of complaints and were passing them on to the NSW [...]

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Why I stopped giving blood

December 5, 2008 – 6:31 am

I am glad to see that this issue is starting to get some traction. I voiced my outrage about it a few weeks ago:
Health Minister John Della Bosca has made a lame attempt to justify the ludicrous charging for blood decision. Really, you can only hope he doesn’t believe this nonsense. I’ve also written to the Red [...]

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Another terrible day for the NSW ALP

November 15, 2008 – 10:53 am

The Rees Government is starting to resemble the famous ‘dead parrott’ sketch, this dear readers is a dead government. So many fronts, so much bad news. If it hangs around until 2011, the Rees Government will destroy Labor in NSW for a generation, if not forever.
Here are some of today’s highlights:

NSW Treasury Secretary, John Pierce, [...]

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