Taking the party line

Today I was privileged to join a bus load of intelligent, visionary and concerned residents of the Woy Woy Peninsula and Gosford, taking a message of grave concern with regard to the misappropriation of the Woy Woy Hospital Rehabilitation Unit to NSW Parliament House in Macquarie St.

To her great credit our elected state representative Marie Andrews joined us in the street and spoke her piece.

She had nothing new to tell us other than to repeat the now well known, adding the visionless statement that: we are an ageing population; clinicians had decided with no community consultation; a transition department had been built in place of the vanished rehab unit; and these days treatments are given in the home!

All her talk was of the current state of affairs and did not encompass the great flood of population increase, the rising numbers of older people, sports injuries and injuries from road accidents rising in the region.

We are bitterly disappointed by Marie Andrews' poor ability to respond to our concerns, but not surprised.

Marie Andrews is good at recitation.

She knows the party line off pat.

Letter, 2 Jun 2010 Zoe Russell, Umina