VHFRT......An increase in Government funded (meaning “professionally” administered and delivered by public servants) Shirley you must be joking??
VHFRT, if you care to read the press, you will discover, as the rest of Australia already knows, that the Government has made a complete mess of NDIS - The National Disability Insurance Scheme. Add to that the NBN, which has failed spectacularly to provide adequate broadband services to regional Australia. Despite being well meaning, you are obviously totally out of touch.
How could you possibly think that a Government instrumentality could do a better job of providing targeted services to Australians in need than a lean, focussed, voluntary organisation? For example, the Victorian CFA has about 35,000 members, not including family backups, there is no way in hell that government can replicate that service at anything approaching reasonable cost, then there is RFDS and a host of other voluntary organisations. What is wrong with using Angel Flight? Hell, it’s our country, not the governments! If we want to do things ourselves then we will.
Are you a member of the Canberra Louis XIV aristocracy? They are the only group who think more government is the solution to everything.