DEAR News Of the Area,

I REFER to the front page of last week’s edition ‘Nurses in Crisis – Coffs Harbour nurses seeking urgent action on staff shortages’.

The elephant in the room, the current government sacked more than 180 fully qualified nurses and health care workers from the Coffs Harbour Health Campus in December 2021, because of their vaccination status.

The pandemic has passed, the mandates are no longer in place according to the government, yet the discrimination against these workers remains, the same workplace discrimination applies to hundreds of sacked police, firefighters and educators.

The silence and/or ignorance of all those mentioned in this story; Gurmesh Singh the sitting member, Tony Judge the Labour candidate, the representatives for Nurses and Midwives Association is absolutely astonishing.

Wake up!

Reinstate the sacked healthcare workers, nurses, police and firefighters and let’s all move on.

Problem solved in a heartbeat.

Regards,
Wayne PRATT,
Coffs Harbour.