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Power prices rort
Your Say: Ken Grundy, Naracoorte Most power prices have risen by 25% but there are some reported to soon double. The feeble answers provided across the board say to ‘put on an extra jumper’ or ‘shop around’. Just imagine if basic food or fuel prices suddenly rose by such astronomical amounts – there would be uproar! Where are the political leaders in this case? The Government Minister Bowen smiles while he repeats, like a cracked record, that renewables provide the cheapest power. Where is this beast? Opposition spokesmen reckon we need to generate more power to presumably offer more competition. Well, we have adequate power now so why would more help? Every time we turn the switch, the light shows power is evident. Only in rare circumstances is there a shortage. Somewhere along the wires between the generation and the consumer there must be one or more cases of rorting. […]
The Voice
Your Say: Arnold Pfitzner Why are we faced with a race-based referendum on enshrining special privileges in the Constitution forever? How can anyone seriously claim that this will unite all Australians? How about ‘it is not meant to’. Marxist in origin, this change is designed to tear down institutions, according to Thomas Mayo, the indigenous activist who contributed to the design of The Voice. Readers, this is no “conspiracy theory” as Mayo has previously paid his respects to “the elders of the Communist Party who I think without a doubt have played a very important role in our activism”. Our part will be to “pay the rent… (and) reparations”. We all know what that means. A modest request indeed, Albo.
Loading allowance for teachers
By Nasik Swami Good news for teachers who go and work in regional schools in South Australia. Minister for Education Blair Boyer has announced that the loading allowance for teachers in rural South Australia will become an ongoing payment from 2024. This means anyone who is eligible to receive the allowance in the 2024 school year, including those who currently receive it and those who move to a regional school or preschool, will receive the country incentive zone allowance for as long as they stay in the country. Mr Boyer said currently, the Country Incentive Zone Allowance expires after five or eight years, depending on the remoteness of the location teachers work in. He said this change will help attract teachers to work in the country and support teacher retention in regional areas, ensuring staffing continuity to support student learning. “Growing up in a small country town, I know firsthand […]
More GPs, specialists needed
By Nasik Swami A new strategy is being looked at to attract and retain general practitioners and specialists in Naracoorte. Limestone Coast Local Health Network Board chairman Grant King says the strategy will focus on retaining medical graduates in the region. “We need to make sure there is more training, so we continue to work with universities and training providers to work on models,” Mr King said. Mr King said there was a model that was used in the Riverland area where doctors were being trained and retained, and that’s something that all the other regions were looking at. “Often people coming into the region, particularly international medical graduates, work in the region and then move onto the metropolitan areas for a whole lot of reasons, so we need to make sure that we can find a way to keep people in the regions practising longer, and that requires a […]
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