An ill wind will blow at the ballot box

BRADDON residents are in a dilemma. Under Labor’s Sid Sidebottom, they saw the transfer of viable businesses to the mainland and New Zealand, but did nothing to keep those industries in Tasmania. Under the Liberals, we are seeing the demise of our health system, with decisions by the faceless bureaucrats creating a substandard system requiring North-West Coasters to travel for any major operations.

If the AMA’s Tim Greenaway, Health Minister Michael Ferguson, or Andrew Wilkie had to suffer the pain of travelling to the North-West Coast for surgery, they would be crying foul. To say one third of Tasmania’s population must travel is absurd.

NW coasters are entitled to a better deal, giving them full medical treatment. Failure to deliver will result in a change of government at the next election. Meanwhile, the faceless members of the Liberal business branch will no doubt sit back and allow the demise of our health system, rather than reinstating the Devonport maternity hospital to a women’s hospital and demanding we receive a system devoid of the travel requirement.

Readers and residents need to speak up and oppose these idiotic changes.