Mediscare lies

I MUST correct the record in response to a report that claimed the Coalition Government has a plan to privatise Medicare (“Union’s campaign takes to airwaves”, Mercury, November 8).

The Federal Government does not and never has had a plan to privatise Medicare.

Claims to the contrary are nothing more than a deliberate campaign of lies and spin being propagated by Labor and their co-conspirators in the CPSU.

Give choppers the chop

RECENTLY I went on a bushwalk in the Walls of Jerusalem National Park. What struck me was the world of natural silence that one enters walking into a national park.

How awful it would be to have the silence of this type of experience broken by the intrusion of helicopters whirling over, ferrying wealthy visitors to private enclaves within the park.

However this is the scenario we face with the Government approving a private development within the park at Lake Mal-

Getting it straight

IN an article on page 4 on Wednesday, the Mercury reported assault victim Richard Fyfe was a soldier who served in Afghanistan. In fact, he was a sailor who served in Iraq. The incorrect information was supplied by the Supreme Court. The Mercury also reported the incident happened at the Cygnet Hotel, in fact it happened at a Cygnet hotel.