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Someone is playing politics with this issue. Politicians regularly stir regional jealousies to divert attention from political scandals, and the fact that many Tasmanians haven’t woken up to the fact is a weakness in the state — and achieving government accountability is made much more difficult because the three regions won’t stand together and demand it.
I have been told that some 2006 graduate nurses were refused placement at the RHH. Can someone verify if this is correct?
An article in the Mercury on Friday 10/11 (it is not linked on the Mercury website) reported that a nursing course may be offered in Hobart, in addition to the Launceston course. Tucked into the story was a little niggle to stir the usual north/south war that causes such damage to this state — too many Tasmanians in each region are so focused on abusing residents from other regions that they forget what is best for the whole state, and for each region, and for every Tasmanian.
It was suggested in the Mercury article that a southern course would solve nursing shortages in the south, but if my source is correct, and some 2006 graduate nurses were refused their first choice of workplace, the RHH, how will training a greater number of nurses, or offering more nursing courses, solve nursing shortages at the RHH?
Every graduate nurse has to complete a practical year in a hospital, regardless of where that nurse attended university. If the RHH can’t offer places for all the graduates seeking places now, the argument about the site of the nursing school affecting nursing supply is just a furphy.
Someone is playing politics with this issue. Politicians regularly stir regional jealousies to divert attention from political scandals, and the fact that many Tasmanians haven’t woken up to the fact is a weakness in the state — and achieving government accountability is made much more difficult because the three regions won’t stand together and demand it.
As an aside, a majority would support one or other of the three parties, but seemingly only Greens supporters readily admit their allegiance — I’ve noticed that this honesty seems to enrage many supporters of the two major parties.
Because of the abusive and divisive tone of some of the more copious contributors to TT, it wouldn’t surprise me if bored minders from political offices are having a little fun by writing to TT in their spare time.
And recent contributions from a couple of usually balanced writers seem to consist of excuses for lack of accountability from government. Are there a few closet members of the ALP and Libs not identifying their memberships as they abuse ‘greenies’ in TT?
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