Amusing to me that the Media would be pushing for “reform and transparency”.
Media gets “lobbied” by political and corporate lobbists more than poiticians and they have their snouts and most of their heads completely in the trough. Media get more free trips from sponsors than any othe rgroup including doctors from Pharma Companies !!
I have been part of many Lobby Groups trekking to Canberra, spending hours trudging around Parliament House meetings with anyone who would listen to our pleas.
I actually think that the only reform that is needed is that all MPs should have to publish who they have met with during the past week every Monday morning. We would then find out, who is lobbying who, and if MPs are actually doing anything.
Yep, even the Pollies I know very well keep their diary more secret than their love life.
In fact, I am currently amused that a campaign committee, I am on for the upcoming State Election, does not do minutes of meeting as they are scared that those dirty rotten liberal grubs will see them and disrupt our acitvities. I get amazed at how important some political hangers-on think they are.
I had a few medical exams to do last week and found out I had an electronic record created.
Only thing was that most of the details were wrong. Referring doctor, wrong. Normal gp, wrong. Surname, wrong, emergency contacts typos everywhere.
Only other thing on it was a blood test from 2008.
When I asked why it was all wrong when the referral sent through had all the details they couldn’t (probably know they got slack and were caught out) explain.
So if I didn’t notice anything the specialist could’ve sent to the wrong GP and potentially delay any treatment I needed.