See Big Kev is about to take over hospitals to standardize the medical system and provide better service to all . Maybe the road and traffic regs could be a next good place to standardize. Stop all this confusion of third party insurance and weights and measures
Good luck Big Kev fixing the health system here in NSW
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It's about time the standard of road construction was also nationalised to the WA or NT standard. The weights and measures rules for truckies could be nationalised as well. Truckies would also like some standardisation relating to breaks and how long the breaks should be. Every state has it's own laws for all these things. How can we alert the powers that want to be, of the anomalies in all these issues? Another problem created by governments to be monitored by police and RTA. Government makes the decision, but are not affected by the decisions it makes.
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Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
Having worked in the NSW hospital system if I was Big Kev I wouldn't walk away I'd Run.
Have to agree NT and WA have great roads but seeing they have had the insight to how not to do it by looking to the older states it comes as no surprise they are getting it right .
There are some shockers in both WA and NT as well but NSW has the worse of all no argument there .
The NSW motoring public should be jumping up and down , we give a Council or RTA engineer a brief to build us a road to allow 110 kph with slip lanes etc. Within weeks of the grand opening it's reduced to 90 kph or below and speed cameras introduced along with proposed T- intersections.
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Talking about speed restriction signs and roadworks in NSW, has anyone recently tried travelling from Mount Victoria down to Penrith?
What an abomination. Its a real joke. Speed restriction signs go from 80kph to 70kph to 60 then 80 and then 50 then 40 and back to 80 and on it goes and goes and goes. Going down the mountains is a real joke and if your not on the ball, there is a fellow in blue ready to stop you so you can contribute to the internal revenue coppers of Mr REESE.
It is truly pitiful.
Have a great day all you poor souls in Vict and SA. Just oil slicks at the moment I believe with the heat.
Peter
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The road improvements fromRaymond Terrace North to Buladelah are really good.The amount of work being done up to the Qld boarder is starting to show and you certainly can see where our money is going.The other end of the stick though is the dangerous state of the Bruce Hwy North of the Sunshine Coast up to and beyond Rockhampton,for the amount of traffic this Hwy carries it is a national disgrace.Cheers Ibbo
The road toll on the Bruce Highway from the Sunshine Coast all the way to Cooktown should ring very loud alarm bells to the Queensland powers that want to be. So there's numerous stop and goes, traffic diversions, and other road works. But by the time they finish one section, the previous section needs to be fixed. Having driven around this country a couple of times, and on a few hundred kms on station road, give me the station roads most of the time. And they're not called "highways". What a disgrace! With no bitumen or verge outside the fog line, there's no where to go in the case of blow out, or attempting taking evasive action on Qld roads. Heaven help anyone facing an oversized, wide load. Every Qld driver takes their life in their hands whenever they leave the driveway. This does not take into account the drivers who learnt to operate a motor vehicle, but didn't learn how to drive with their brain in gear. It's been a very scary experience, but have survived so far. Safe travel to all of you. Granny
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The road toll on the Bruce Highway from the Sunshine Coast all the way to Cooktown should ring very loud alarm bells to the Queensland powers that want to be. So there's numerous stop and goes, traffic diversions, and other road works. But by the time they finish one section, the previous section needs to be fixed. Having driven around this country a couple of times, and on a few hundred kms on station road, give me the station roads most of the time. And they're not called "highways". What a disgrace! With no bitumen or verge outside the fog line, there's no where to go in the case of blow out, or attempting taking evasive action on Qld roads. Heaven help anyone facing an oversized, wide load. Every Qld driver takes their life in their hands whenever they leave the driveway. This does not take into account the drivers who learnt to operate a motor vehicle, but didn't learn how to drive with their brain in gear. It's been a very scary experience, but have survived so far. Safe travel to all of you. Granny
Hear hear!!
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The real problem with hospitals is actually not the medical staff but rather the Admin staff who seem for reasons only known to Mr Rees to be able to dictate where the money is spent. The cynic in me sees millions wasted by hospital Admin staff going to conferences in luxurious places to discuss better ways of getting more money to spend on themselves.... I wish Kev baby rots a ruck, he will need to actually spend some time in Australia to get this happening though.... Just before the last election I got polled in the street for the fist time and was asked the usual questions and what I thought the issues for a new Govt would be. I said HEALTH, EDUCATION & FUEL PRICING.... Now the silly young thing conducting the survey asked me several times what did I think of various environmental issues and I kept telling her that the environment was important but in the short term it would be better if they fixed the hospitals up so that there would be people around to enjoy the environment, because if we all got sick and died ther'd be knowone to proffit from the expenditure on the environment. Shame 20 somethings see no need for a better health or education system...
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Correct Bazil. That's because they're not old enough to be sick enough yet, to need those health services, and they think they'll be affected more by the environment, but don't need the education or the health services because global warming will get them first. I worked in WA Health Services admin until 06, and it seems the decisions are made in the city and have absolutely no relevance to the needs of remote country health services. While the decisions are made by the Public servants in the city, it's all about bucks, and who is going to look the best at the end of the day. Some of the decisions are based on real things like medical needs, and the admin services required to support these needs, but everyone gets short changed out bush, and there are never enough staff, equipment or dollars to do the actual job and provide the services. Frustrated Granny
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Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
Correct Bazil. That's because they're not old enough to be sick enough yet, to need those health services, and they think they'll be affected more by the environment, but don't need the education or the health services because global warming will get them first. I worked in WA Health Services admin until 06, and it seems the decisions are made in the city and have absolutely no relevance to the needs of remote country health services. While the decisions are made by the Public servants in the city, it's all about bucks, and who is going to look the best at the end of the day. Some of the decisions are based on real things like medical needs, and the admin services required to support these needs, but everyone gets short changed out bush, and there are never enough staff, equipment or dollars to do the actual job and provide the services. Frustrated Granny
G'day,
These decisions are made by people who have absolutely no personal knoweldge of the requirements out in the bush because they have never lived there but that doesn't stop them from being experts on the subject and as a result other people suffer because of their incompetence.
Best Regards and Safe Travelling.
John
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