What’s the reward for dedication? The boot apparently.
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Can you believe the ‘Gang of Five’ conspired to get rid of the Hilltops Council General Manager. I can’t call it any other way.
If you didn’t read March 15 Boorowa News, get a copy, it’s all on the front page, then turn to page 5 and read the letter to the Editor from David Evans (also published in the Young Witness) and the letter from Julia Atkin. Julia and David really loaded up on the ‘Gang of Five’, putting the foolish decision to force Anthony McMahon from the GM position very much in the right perspective.
Quite a number of Administrators and General Managers succumbed to the pressure of managing the amalgamation process. Not Anthony McMahon, he worked tirelessly for Hilltops, for a period of time gravely ill. No thank you from the ‘Gang of Five’, no appreciation for a job well done, simply exercise their course and force him out.
Member for Cootamundra, Steph Cooke said she was baffled by the decision and strongly sang Anthony’s praise, as have Julia and David in their letters.
With the huge job ahead, the ‘Gang of Five’ have turned a difficult period ahead into one of uncertainty and, I hasten to add, potential financial insecurity.
Who are the foolish ‘Gang of Five’? Jot these names down: Ingram, Armstrong, Stadtmiller, Walker and Horton. They voted to dump a very good GM. I vote to dump them.
WITS
Just when you think you’ve heard everything, feast your eyes on this. According to a legal expert speaking on behalf of the body putting together the National Disability Insurance Agency, I would think in terms of what will or won’t be funded, said, “Eating and swallowing are not functional activities of daily living.”
If you just said, ”WHAT?”, rest assured every other person having heard this statement said exatly that … “WHAT?”
I bet our legal expert is on big bikkies to come up with that gem.
WITS
Political correctness is rapidly moving from madness to absolute absurdity. The word mum or mothers has just come under the spotlight.
British supermarket chain Waitrose, so concerned with gender neutrality, has started selling Mother’s Day cards with the slogan “Happy You Day”.
Apparently the British Medical Association asked doctors to refrain from using the word mother and substitute “Pregnant person”.
I don’t know where the idiots coming up with these ideas come from, but please point out to these ‘geniuses’, only women can get pregnant, only women can be mothers.
WITS
Last week I happened to get onto the subject of inspirational women. Last week the world lost possibly our most inspirational man with the passing of Stephen Hawking.
When men are lauded by Kings and Queens, Popes and Presidents, and some of the greatest minds of our time, they have definitely achieved greatness..
Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and cosmologist, rose to greatness despite rare early onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) at age 21 that paralysed him over decades. He was not expected to live to 26ish, the fact he lived to 76 is miraculous, his mind genius, his will to live legendry.
We can all gain something from this inspirational man epitomised in these words:
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” (Stephen Hawking)