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And so it begins: Government by the Religious Right : Comments

By Kate Mannix, published 31/3/2011

O'Farrell will be under pressure to give to the religious right because they will be in charge of delivering his social services.

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Kate is right. It would be a disaster if we only had religious organisations running ALL healthcare facilities.

Just 2 years ago I was working for an Aged Care Provider run by the Baptist Church.
The bulk of the residents and staff in that facility were not Baptists at all, but had only one of two choices in our small town as to which Aged Care facility they could attend.
Most families arrange for their elderly frail relatives to go into the next available bed in town, when the time comes for more care.

Both the residents and the staff were not allowed to have any form of gambling on the site... including Melbourne Cup Day sweeps, Footy Tipping, raffles, or even bingo!
To add to these resident's woes, they were not allowed to drink any alcohol either!

Think very carefully before you wish that religious organisations would take over all health facility management.
Posted by suzeonline, Thursday, 31 March 2011 7:48:25 PM
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suzeonline

'To add to these resident's woes, they were not allowed to drink any alcohol either!
r u sure u r telling the truth Suzi. Most Baptist I know including Pastors drink alcohol?

I would be more concerned about the irreligous Greens who want to force electricity prices so high that many will freeze. Many can't wait 1000 years for the 0.05 increase in 1000 years being predicted by the High Priest of global warming.
Posted by runner, Thursday, 31 March 2011 8:24:10 PM
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Kate,

What a surname yours.

If you are from Melbourne and have read Frank Hardy’s ‘Power without Glory’, you know of a Bishop with your surname.

There are Sacred Cows in the hospital industry that few dare challenge and one of them is in the Catholic Hospitals.

The industry in its whole is known as ‘Charities”.

At last count the number of charities in Australia was more than two hundred fifty and growing, spurred by legal firms specializing in the exploitation of legislation too hot for politician’s sensitive hands.

Each charity has a complement of executives and bureaucrats with a well fattened body of do-gooders.

It costs many tens of billions per year to Australians. It can be called ‘the industry of parasitism’.

The courageous journalist Adele Ferguson working for the BRW wrote about it some years ago.

A serious study of this industry is much overdue.
Posted by skeptic, Thursday, 31 March 2011 8:45:31 PM
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Keith,

So what you're saying is that we should fund private organisations with public money. And you say you're a liberal voter? What kind of liberalism is that? The agrarian socialist type I think. Getting gov't out of our lives is a core liberal platform. Using public funds to support private organisations is the worst of all worlds.

I agree that NSW labour are appalling I and don't intend voting for labour anytime soon. I would never vote for the greens as they are the modern day communists and socialists under a new banner (see the dimwitted Jebby Obyrne). And I'm certainly not interested in the nationals type of socialism, which is founded upon the redistribution of wealth to rural supporters.

The liberals have got a lot of work to do to convinve those who supported them in NSW that they can actually govern any better than the Labour Party. Admittedly a rather low bar.
Posted by PaulL, Thursday, 31 March 2011 8:53:11 PM
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Well I don't think it's the place of government to run television stations, universities or hospitals, so given the state-worship of the left wing, which is every bit as irrational and superstitious as the Catholic church, how is that any different from these things being run by a religion?
Posted by Peter Hume, Thursday, 31 March 2011 9:27:41 PM
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Runner, I swear I am telling the truth about the Baptists who ran the group of Aged Care Homes I worked in for nine years, until I left 2 years ago!

The elderly residents filled out a survey a few years before I left, saying they resented being refused access to alcohol at their age.
The Baptist Owners eventually agreed they could have some alcohol, but only if they drank it alone in their rooms!

I kid you not.

They preferred that the poor old dears be cupboard drinkers, than to allow them to socialise with the others over a glass of sherry.

I also had the misfortune to have to socialise with the owners and the Nurse managers when they came to visit our site.

We would go out for an evening meal, but they totally frowned on us ordering a bottle of wine to share between four of us!

As a lapsed Catholic, I had been used to everyone around me being able to drink alcohol if they wished, and all with the Bible's good wishes.

The Baptists read a different Bible apparently...
Posted by suzeonline, Thursday, 31 March 2011 10:42:06 PM
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