SUPPORT PURPLE DAY
Purple Day is coming up once again on March 26, and this year Epilepsy Action Australia is encouraging the Australian community to learn the basics of seizure first aid in order to reduce the fear they may experience if someone has a seizure in front of them and needs help.
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Epilepsy Action has produced a series of animated videos for both children and adults that your readers can view the at www.epilepsy.org.au under ‘Purple Day’. You can also find out how to get involved in Purple Day activities on the website.
Around 250,000 Australians are currently diagnosed with epilepsy, and approximately 3.5% of the Australian population will experience this neurological disorder at some point in their lifetime. Knowing how to help someone having a seizure can literally save a person’s life.
The key steps to seizure first aid are_
- Key Steps
- Stay with the person
- Keep them safe, removing anything that could hurt them
- Don’t try to restrain them
- Don’t put anything in their mouth
- Roll them onto their side once jerking/shaking subsides
- Reassure them until they have recovered
- Call an ambulance if the seizure lasts longer than five minutes.
On behalf of all Australians living with epilepsy, thank you in advance to your local community for supporting Epilepsy Action Australia this Purple Day. Your support helps to ensure people living with epilepsy can lead optimal lives.
Carol Ireland, CEO, Epilepsy Action Australia
NOT ADDING UP
Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenburg is making much of his claim that Labor's three pronged tax policies in the areas of dividend imputation on shares, negative gearing of properties and capital gains on both, will impact most heavily on "poor people".
The subterfuge he is employing here, is that he is identifying "poor people" according to "taxable income". Very sneaky. "Taxable Income" is not an accurate indicator of wealth.
Most "rich people" have arranged their financial affairs in various ways so as to minimise the tax they pay. This of course is done by minimising their "taxable incomes". Their low "taxable incomes" do not mean they are amongst the genuine "poor," as Josh Frydenberg would have us believe.
The Grattan Institute provides an example of a self-funded retiree couple with $3.2 Million in superannuation, their own home and a $200,000 share portfolio. They draw down $130,000 a year from their Superannuation Fund, plus earning $15,000 a year in share dividends, but have arranged their financial affairs such that their "taxable Income," is only $15,000, and they pay no tax.
Freudenberg's use of "taxable income" as a measure of wealth is no more than a cunning plan. Don't be taken in by it. Many of those with low "taxable incomes" are by no means "poor". Labor's tax policies are in the national interest and deserve support.
John Martin, Woonona
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