October 21, 2026
LETTER: Please just get the bloody basics right

LETTER: Please just get the bloody basics right

DEAR News Of The Area,

ON Saturday I rang for an ambulance for my wife, who has cancer. She was sent home and took a turn for the worse.

I rang at 5:15pm and was told it would be about an hour. After two hours, we rang again.

The operator said they could not find any close ones.

At 10:15pm, one arrived. It had to come 75km from a village called Rutherford, outside Maitland, to my town of Nelson Bay, where we have lived for more than 65 years.

It is not the ambulance people’s fault. I believe it’s bloody (Labor – Liberal – Greens – Teals) fault.

I am not the smartest person in this great nation, but instead of worrying about bloody global warming and climate change, just get back to bloody basics and common sense living before there is no one to save Poor Fellow My Country.

Is it time for One Nation to save Poor Fellow My Country with common-sense politics?

Regards,

Mick Edgar,

Nelson Bay.

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