DECISION AGAINST THE GRAIN
I had an interesting conversation with an insurance acquaintance over the weekend, and it was very interesting to hear that the travel insurance industry were rubbing their hands with glee over the automatic transfer of health and medical records to the digital domain.
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All our records are going to be transferred over to computer accessible facilities, and you must go out of your way to get this information transfer blocked from any third party access.
It does not seem to matter if you are old, or unable to get access to a computer, your records are going over anyway.
More and more Australians are travelling than ever before, and travel insurance companies welcome the chance to have an excuse to bump up your travel insurance premiums after they get to your health records.
Pay or stay is going to be the order of the day.
Once again, yet another political decision is taken without Australians ever being asked for their opinion.
This government thinks that we are all a grain of sand short of a beach.
Dave Cox, Corrimal
A HEATED DEBATE
The topic of global warming is again and again being debated by various opinions (Illawarra Mercury, July 20, 2018).
I have to admit that as an “all year around swimmer” it is becoming harder each year to have a dip in the brine, when artic winds are blowing over the water.
It is probably something to do with my old age. But “cold snaps” have been around since Adam was a little boy.
I remember years ago,writing a poem about a special group of swimmers of which I was a member, called the “Shark Baiters”.
We met at the Continental pool on a special day and time.
The poem was as follows.......
“On the Eighth of the eighth, nineteen eighty eight, eight swimmers dived into lane number eight at eight minutes past eight, with the the temp.just below eight” etc.
I could not repeat this poetry in nineteen ninety nine, as the Continental pool has not got a lane number nine.
However ,as I see major disasters on the TV news, the global weather is not behaving normal just of late.
We must all be concerned about our future generations.
John Pronk, Wollongong
WHERE NEXT FOR PRISON?
After Wollongong City Council voted to oppose the Dapto Prison development Member for Kiama Gareth Ward posed the question “if the prison isn’t wanted at Dapto where can the Government put it?”
Where indeed Gareth, where indeed.
Bob Fulton, Darkes Forest
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