Neglecting older voters

Belinda Neal will be busy cleaning up before leaving at the end of her last term as MP for Robertson.

It will be interesting to see if she really means some of the things she has been quoted as saying in the aftermath of such a sound thumping by the Robertson electorate party members.

We are still fighting for the return of our Woy Woy Public Hospital rehabilitation ward.

With over 9000 people over the age of 65 on the Woy Woy Peninsula, I am still trying to understand why both John Della Bosca and Belinda let their own local community public medical amenity be downgraded in such a mean-spirited and detrimental way to our ageing community?

Norman Hanscombe, with whom I spoke outside the Woy Woy CWA Hall while the Labor pre-selection was going on, should be congratulated for exposing the now obvious very strong dissent within the Robertson electorate.

While unpopular with some party members, Mr Hanscombe displayed evidence of being able to think and act in what many perceive to be the public's best interest.

He saw and wrote about the need for change because there was, after all was said and done, no other sensible course of action.

Email, 11 Mar 2010 Edward James, Umina