q & a in regional albury today+ crean windsor, page-5

" Join the dots", Crean, announced $65 million for our local Cancer Clinic after waffling on for most of the time.

No time scale mentioned, but glad Dr. Peter Mourik in the audience to get Labor's attention with his comment that if you were to have a heart attack in a rural area, you would have 30% less chance of survival because you would have to be transferred from Albury Base hospital to Melbourne because of lack of facilities, etc..

I don't know why our local Liberal member, Greg Aplin or Susan Ley wasn't part of the panel, seeing we are in NSW, though.

QandA wasted the first 15 minutes on Bin Laden, but overall, good discussion with biggest QandA audience of 800 people.



RAVI