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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother,
Mother and Wife of German Descent
I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com
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Dismantling Medicare one piece at a time? I guess this is Liberal Party policy or Liberal National Party policy. And really there’s no guaranty that Labor would not do the same! The only thing that might help is to raise the Medicare levy. But which party wants to do this?
Abbott also supports the TPPA, the secret treaty which will do significant damage to your health system, as it will to ours: http://www.itsourfuture.org.nz/tag/australia/
Now that Obama has a Republican Congress, he’s talking about getting Congress to give him “fast track” approval for TPPA. This means they would have to vote the treaty up or down without debating it.
7 Mar is a Stop the TPPA National Day of Action for New Zealand. A friend and I are organising the protest here in New Plymouth.
Another intesting blog post about TPPA: https://hwaairfan.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/would-11-asian-nations-be-stupid-enough-to-enslave-themselves-in-a-trade-deal-with-the-u-s/#like-259072
The author refers to Asian nations but he means Asian-Pacific.