tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post7556853564254251974..comments2023-04-20T04:34:11.624+10:00Comments on CAIRNS HILLBILLY WATCH - DAILY LIFE IN CAIRNS, QLD EXPLAINED BY RATIONAL, THINKING PEOPLE: JOB DECIMATION DAY FOR CAIRNS BASE HOSPITAL ARRIVESUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-71610232481753234172013-02-22T14:56:13.031+10:002013-02-22T14:56:13.031+10:00my daughter is in despair. She still has her job,...my daughter is in despair. She still has her job, but no manager anymore, no admin officer to do filing, answer phones etc. She is a community nurse and theses are the services that are being decimated. Ok the nurses who walk the wards may keep their jobs, but they WILL notice a difference if the community nurses cannot do their jobs properly, more patients will need to go to hospital. THEN the nurses on the wards will be effected. I cannot understand this debacle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-81481127169403252152013-02-20T23:04:53.164+10:002013-02-20T23:04:53.164+10:00percentage of sacked staff is minimal. The austral...percentage of sacked staff is minimal. The australian public voted for a change in 2007, you got it, now its time for the real people (not political players) to start fixing the mess.Get back up on your toes queensland stop scuffing your feetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-86098695235411615942013-02-20T09:24:36.872+10:002013-02-20T09:24:36.872+10:00Anonymous 19.50, I beg to differ. I believe HBW do...Anonymous 19.50, I beg to differ. I believe HBW does that very well - exposing the incompetence of our representatives.Jethronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-61598806837285466042013-02-19T19:50:00.024+10:002013-02-19T19:50:00.024+10:00HBW needs to shift its focus away from Mackenzie, ...HBW needs to shift its focus away from Mackenzie, who is clearly past it, and now needs to concentrate on exposing the incompetence of our Hillbilly leaders in all 3 levels of government in this region.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-90144959459685360692013-02-19T17:43:19.647+10:002013-02-19T17:43:19.647+10:00I'd love to see the radio stations business pl...I'd love to see the radio stations business plan - surely it would be more economic to get him a motorised scooter? - he could whizz round, visit each of the listeners for a cuppa, thunder about the lefties, greenies and 'ferals' and drop of some brochures for the advertisers.<br /><br />Of course he'd have to spend a bit more time with the ones who can't read, but he'd still be home just after lunch. With the free Wi-Fi they won't even need an office, just set up under a tree near the lagoon.Destiny Prophethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182358293425749368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-35328889878664403952013-02-19T16:05:10.015+10:002013-02-19T16:05:10.015+10:00I thought Gavin King was a main contender for loca...I thought Gavin King was a main contender for local village idiot but I think he may just have pipped at least for today by Anonymous 19/2/13 13:19 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-4343963171259237252013-02-19T14:08:59.165+10:002013-02-19T14:08:59.165+10:00Kathy Mac, no-one responded to Cueball's invit...Kathy Mac, no-one responded to Cueball's invitation 'cos the only people who listen to his toxic polemics and parroted LNP propaganda are lonely, loony or bitter old right-wingers with nothing better to do with their time, and the odd HBW monitor. I'd be surprised if his daily listenership tops three figures on average.Tony Hillierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811119917896735831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-35228051744617854042013-02-19T13:45:16.670+10:002013-02-19T13:45:16.670+10:00Gavin King must be living in a different Cairns th...Gavin King must be living in a different Cairns than most of us, if he thinks that it will be easy for those who have lost their jobs to get another one.<br /><br />How many people apply for every job advertised - bet he is not game enough to tell the truth about this.<br /><br />Just like the Lying Nasty Party and their media mates don't tell the truth about the fact that FEDERAL health funding has increased but STATE funding has been cut.<br /><br />Beware people, Abbott will destroy Australia as Newman has done to Queensland if he wins in September.Ridgiesrulenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-75915384187743959162013-02-19T13:40:25.130+10:002013-02-19T13:40:25.130+10:00Will Gavin have the guts to front up for his regul...Will Gavin have the guts to front up for his regular talkback session tomorrow at 11am. Health staff are ready to hammer him if he does.Second Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-73142366956743893072013-02-19T13:21:30.895+10:002013-02-19T13:21:30.895+10:00Heard King on Mackenzie answering nicely prepared ...Heard King on Mackenzie answering nicely prepared questions. What a gormless, gutless snotty little boogar this King character is. He appears over and over on this Mackenzie's talk back show, spending several hours a week answering what are obviously rehearsed and prepared questions from Mackenzie, yet he won't front up to the people affected by his decisions. Does he understand what a Member of Parliament is? His only connection with the people he is supposed to serve is through this radio program which is really only political propaganda for the government. Proof of how the Mackenzie show is now viewed as a political tool of the Newman Government by the public was seen clearly today when Mackenzie asked for people who had been affected by the sackings to phone the program. No-one did of course. Kathy Mac.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-9909730453219182752013-02-19T13:19:00.937+10:002013-02-19T13:19:00.937+10:00Let's get millions of Cairns people on the str...Let's get millions of Cairns people on the streets protesting this. Our slogan can be "Save the parasites" "Once on the public teat, always on the public teat".<br /><br />Billions of onlookers will agree, surely!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-1761295360632867732013-02-19T12:14:20.470+10:002013-02-19T12:14:20.470+10:00Failed CRC Councillor Margaret Cochrane being appo...Failed CRC Councillor Margaret Cochrane being appointed to the Hospital Board was nothing but a pay-back by LNP for running against Val Schier and taking possible votes away from her which she did. She was totally used by the LNP - Enstch, King, Quick and the whole white shoe brigade. Shame!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-29409245477922381662013-02-19T11:10:13.704+10:002013-02-19T11:10:13.704+10:00Margaret (football fields) Cochrane the failed CRC...Margaret (football fields) Cochrane the failed CRC Cr is on the Hospital boardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-16715663988590828372013-02-19T11:05:47.433+10:002013-02-19T11:05:47.433+10:00G King on radio news tues morn said the employment...G King on radio news tues morn said the employment situation in Cairns has got better so all those who lose their jobs will be able to get another job somewhere elseIvornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-19670575025641688812013-02-19T09:46:37.401+10:002013-02-19T09:46:37.401+10:00Having worked in the public service at a time of s...Having worked in the public service at a time of staffing cuts, we were told to "work smarter not harder". So there will have to be a seismic shift in work practices as staff try to achieve more with less. All well and good, but my own experiences at trying to "work smarter not harder" met with resistance from staff who had the entrenched attitude that what was done in the past, always is, and therefore always will be. Secondly, those staff refusing to find corners to safely cut then had a habit of running to someone in management to snitch on those staff "working smarter, not harder." Management then took the smarter staff to task for "altering standard work practices". So then everyone was back to square one, and "working smarter, not harder" was abandoned.<br />Workload stress increased, morale plummeted and the workplace became toxic. <br />I saw this happen many times and literally gave up. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-23301829065484704692013-02-19T05:51:54.158+10:002013-02-19T05:51:54.158+10:00Apparently, whilst the restructure of the Cairns a...Apparently, whilst the restructure of the Cairns and Hinterland HHS was announced yesterday with pretty graphics and lots of flow charts, the devil is in the detail. Individual positions were not identified to go in yesterday's announcement. Instead, staff will be notified by email within 48 hours.<br /><br />How kind and considerate they are? They certainly know how to look after their staff's mental health, especially considering they are a health service. <br /><br />Voluntary redundancy is also a feature for those that put their hands up. When the Sunshine Coast HHS offered redundacy, they were inundated with loyal staff who had had enough and wanted to retire.<br /><br />Watch this space.......Jan from Kewarranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-81934574053903598112013-02-18T23:26:58.233+10:002013-02-18T23:26:58.233+10:00A Newman Government statement 2012-13 has revealed...A Newman Government statement 2012-13 has revealed close to 3 billion dollars has been taken out of Queensland's health budget. HOW MANY FAMILIES HAS THAT IMPACTED ON.sir cus.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-89617148599461183082013-02-18T23:26:48.593+10:002013-02-18T23:26:48.593+10:00None of the LNP Members were present and none have...None of the LNP Members were present and none have said anything. How bloody pathetic. They treat the electors with so much contempt that they don't show up to support their own actions. None of them of course would dream of sticking up for the Far North and the Base Hospital and demand to have the hospital upgraded to Tier One. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-14209602277505768832013-02-18T22:28:42.418+10:002013-02-18T22:28:42.418+10:00A friend of mine lost her job too - another Mum.
...A friend of mine lost her job too - another Mum.<br /><br />So Newman saves money out of his budget, blames it on the Feds and drives up unemployment costs for the Feds - I'd think it was planned that way, except they're not that clever.<br /><br />Has there been any comment yet from the three headed hydra - Bob McKingzie?Destiny Prophethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182358293425749368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-35449411377493297842013-02-18T20:24:44.358+10:002013-02-18T20:24:44.358+10:00Lots of people will be in despair tonight, wonderi...Lots of people will be in despair tonight, wondering how to pay the bills, if they have to sell the home, and what their future holds. It's a sad sad day. Sad too that Queenslanders, so many Queenslanders, all put their faith and trust in Campbell Newman that they gave him the greatest majority in an Australian parliament ever with scarcely any opposition, to keep him honest. When Newman said during the Election Campaign, "No public servant need fear me." People believed him. They really really trusted Newman. They really really believed he was going to improve life for them. Now close on 20,000 Queenslanders and their families have learned that Newman lies. There are more job losses coming in the TAFE and Education Departments. Sad.Alison Allowaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-38812662971365616162013-02-18T19:36:43.862+10:002013-02-18T19:36:43.862+10:00Obviously the heroic Anonymous 18:49 didn't lo...Obviously the heroic Anonymous 18:49 didn't lose their job today. About as sensitive as our local MP. Sure your name isn't Gavin?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-26599132355792702992013-02-18T18:49:05.314+10:002013-02-18T18:49:05.314+10:00Big deal.
A few more useless public servants get t...Big deal.<br />A few more useless public servants get the boot.<br />Looking at the unemployment figures the other day, (falling in Cairns and across Queensland), it wont be long before they're back on some gravy train. <br />Now - let's start culling some of them useless Council jerks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-50094997324613822942013-02-18T17:22:54.002+10:002013-02-18T17:22:54.002+10:00Could someone remind me what that muppet was '...Could someone remind me what that muppet was 'knighted' for? That self serving pissant King and the LNP puppets 'running' the hospital board should be run out of town. If wasn't for the apathy and ignorance of the Far North Queensland voters people would be marching in the streets by the thousands in support of our health services.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-20346672810609189972013-02-18T17:05:05.711+10:002013-02-18T17:05:05.711+10:00
King has to go.
Sooner rather than later.
Nobody...<br />King has to go.<br /><br />Sooner rather than later.<br />Nobody is fighting for Cairns. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3182703408922632531.post-80107410461070424572013-02-18T16:52:37.534+10:002013-02-18T16:52:37.534+10:00why are these clowns allowed be board members in f...why are these clowns allowed be board members in first place ??jim cavillnoreply@blogger.com