The other day I gave a donation to Hornsby Hospital towards a new anesthetic machine which it badly needed. Recently I spent two weeks in the hospital and got some idea of what a tremendous job its staff was doing on a chronic shortage of funds.
Hornsby isn’t the only state hospital in the same plight. They are all short of funds.That’s why you read about babies being born in toilets, and overworked nurses and doctors making mistakes. But not to worry. When there’s a need, the State Government has the cash. Take the badly needed Catholic Youth Week which cost us $140m. Now there’s an organisation which needed help. It must be terribly short staffed, what with a lot of the clergy in goal, and all the compensation the church has to pay for their peccadilloes.
And now the Government is about to show more of its generosity to another vital cause. When all the lobbyists came knocking on its door, the Premier took a look at all their torn jeans and scuffed sandshoes and gave them a tiny $30m towards a racetrack for some V8 races at Homebush Bay. Sure there’ll have to be a lot of trees taken out, and the people living nearby will need new eardrums, but hell, think of the money it’ll make Channel 7! And think of the donations, not to speak of the jobs we’ll get!
What was that about the light on the hill?
Dunno, I was still on a garbage run when it was all going on.
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