Five more years for the SouthCare helicopter

I must be missing something, but please explain to me why part-corporate sponsorship is a bad thing in this case and cases like it where that funding in no way impinges upon or changes the service delivered?

The ACT government should not be solely responsible for a rescue helicopter that services both ACT and NSW… it was not set up as an ACT rescue service, it was set up to service the ACT and south-east NSW.

It should be joint funding by the government with no need for private company sponsorship, and available for all…

What a strange result on the poll! If you can have a business-govt financial partnership behind a community service like this, and it doesn’t affect or impede the service, as in this case, why not? More productive partnerships between business, govt and community groups is part of what our society needs!

#1 Agreed
#2 Yep
#3 That’s not called a typo, it’s called a Freudian slip
#4 Yep
#5 Precisely
#6 Well said that man
#7 GGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRR indeed
#8 Oh so yes
#9 Indeed
#10 An understatement

How very unusual, a thread wherein all respondants are essentially in agreement. A first??

I’m looking forward to that one – it sounds most exciting!

; )

Loquaciousness said :

peterh said :

there are a couple of things that need to be done:

1. get the ACT govt to foot the bill for Southcare
2. move southcare away from the new gaol
3. move southcare away from the new gaol
4. move southcare away from the new gaol
5. stop commissioning mad swinging arm thingies (apparently art) on major roads.

Post coming shortly to RiotACT:

Inmate escapes from Alexander Maconochie centre – makes getaway in Snowy Hydro Chopper”

L

you know, it is only a matter of time….

peterh said :

there are a couple of things that need to be done:

1. get the ACT govt to foot the bill for Southcare
2. move southcare away from the new gaol
3. move southcare away from the new gaol
4. move southcare away from the new gaol
5. stop commissioning mad swinging arm thingies (apparently art) on major roads.

Post coming shortly to RiotACT:

Inmate escapes from Alexander Maconochie centre – makes getaway in Snowy Hydro Chopper”

L

Spideydog said :

It’s a bit of a mixed bag for me. If other organisations are willing to take on the cost to help finance things such as Southcare, that is great and is less of our dollars being used, that could be used elsewhere (not artworks).

It doesn’t look good that private organisations put in more money that the government does for such a vital service.

What concerns me is if these private companies were no longer in a position to help finance southcare, would the government step up to the plate ?? Works of art and alike are not “vital” services…..

Absolutely.

It’s interesting (although totally unsurprising, since we’re in the run up to the election) that Mr Corbell has given all the credit not to the people/organisations who have stumped up the funds, but to the “ACT Labor Government”. Just because you signed the forms, doesn’t make you the saviour of the thing. It’s that type of election rallying that really makes me mad.

L

Spideydog said :

It’s a bit of a mixed bag for me. If other organisations are willing to take on the cost to help finance things such as Southcare, that is great and is less of our dollars being used, that could be used elsewhere (not artworks).

It doesn’t look good that private organisations put in more money that the government does for such a vital service.

What concerns me is if these private companies were no longer in a position to help finance southcare, would the government step up to the plate ?? Works of art and alike are not “vital” services…..

they are for a CM who wants a legacy of his rule.

there are a couple of things that need to be done:

1. get the ACT govt to foot the bill for Southcare
2. move southcare away from the new gaol
3. move southcare away from the new gaol
4. move southcare away from the new gaol
5. stop commissioning mad swinging arm thingies (apparently art) on major roads.

It’s a bit of a mixed bag for me. If other organisations are willing to take on the cost to help finance things such as Southcare, that is great and is less of our dollars being used, that could be used elsewhere (not artworks).

It doesn’t look good that private organisations put in more money that the government does for such a vital service.

What concerns me is if these private companies were no longer in a position to help finance southcare, would the government step up to the plate ?? Works of art and alike are not “vital” services…..