August 31, 2002

Laptop-less in Wagga Wagga

It’s been a frustrating couple of days. I went to Wagga Wagga to facilitate a workshop and found that I had left my laptop power cable behind, so I was unable to do much except answer a few emails, and hence, no Diary entries for a few days. It is amazing how dependent we've become on this technology - how did we ever manage without email and the web?

There is a lot of action hotting up, on various fronts. The final plans for the national launch of the National Maternity Action Plan on September 24 are being slotted into place, and this week I will be forming part of a delegation putting the NMAP case to various politicians in the NSW Parliament. These promise to be very interesting meetings and I will keep you posted about their outcomes.

Some politicians have already been lobbied especially by Barb Vernon, Justine Caines and Sally Tracy, on a recent visit to Canberra. Meg Lees (former Democrat and now Independent Senator) was the most enthusiastic and she has taken on the issue of midwifery and NMAP as a major platform for her term. She will be making it the central theme of the Adjournment Debate in Parliament at the end of September, which will guarantee that these issues are recorded in Hansard. Kay Patterson, the Minister for Health, was completely disinterested when approached and her staffers (all bright young women) were very uncomfortable with Justine’s 5 week old baby being breastfed as they talked around the table about midwifery!

The Greater Metropolitan Transition Taskforce (GMTT) in Sydney is generating a lot of angst amongst consumers who have not, as yet, been consulted on key issues, such as the closure of smaller maternity units around Sydney. A campaign to publicise this issue, especially in the marginal seat of Campbelltown is being mounted and John Brogden, the Liberal Leader of the Opposition, has already visited the threatened maternity units in the Campbelltown/Camden area to see for himself what these proposals mean for families, and especially women. Camden has a fully fledged Birth Centre that no-one is allowed to use - it sits there in glory, completely untouched - the result of local medical politics.

A number of documents, including those covering the issue of the GMTT , and the Maternity Coalitions's statement on Professional Indemnity Insurance have been prepared as part of these campaigns and I have had then added to our web site for easy access by concerned parties.

It will be a busy week!

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