The Andrews government has slashed future funding for one of its most significant pandemic-era reforms: the local public health units established at the height of the COVID-19 crisis to rebuild the state’s public health capacity and defence against infectious disease.

There will be deep cuts that will reduce funding for the nine metropolitan and regional units by 40 per cent over the next two years.



Government funding for the units will shrink from about $80 million this financial year to $55 million in 2023-24 and further reduce to $47 million in 2024-25. On July 1, as Victoria enters its peak season for flu and other respiratory viruses, dozens of public health officers will be out of a job.

This comes as local public health units take on more responsibility for managing outbreaks of communicable disease across the state.



well done premier andrews.

he is responding to my email advising people take personal responsibility

i salute you sir

aquascoot wrote on Jun 18^th, 2023 at 6:50pm:


Hope your hero Dr. John "Mr. Science" Gerrard doesn't find out about this.

He'd be so upset that he isn't getting your full attention anymore.



And... here's "Personal Responsibility" again.



That's the new name given to "Public Health" by our neoliberal governments (of both major parties) these days.

Yeah, I see lots of "personal responsibility" on display nearly every time I go shopping with maskless people coughing and sneezing all over the place.

Some not even bothering to cover their coughs and sneezes with their hands or elbows (not that it would make a great deal of difference regarding spreading whatever they've got anyway).

Bobby. wrote on Jun 18^th, 2023 at 7:02pm:


All over a make believe plague

Carl D wrote on Jun 18^th, 2023 at 9:17pm:




not just mine.


almost everyones  big nothing burger

apart from you greg and geoff

3 pedantic grammar nazi sandgropers who are very out of touch with the needs of 'real' australia.

aquascoot wrote on Jun 18^th, 2023 at 6:50pm:


Dastardly Dan has already spent a decade STARVING Vic Health. Vic ambulance services are already virtually non existent. As a Communist ...his care factor for his own is zero.

During the same period Andrews splashed millions in extra payments to overseas students from China. And Andrews also gave himself a massive pay rise making him the highest paid Premier in Australian history despite not having the largest state in terms of population or size.

Victorians must be seriously masochistic. They deserve the pain he gives them. I have no sympathy for tosspots.

Edit : To be fair though ... many Victorians have left their Communist state and have moved north .... in the hope of trying to find Australia I guess.

By the way, Dan's big "nothing burger" has been responsible for more deaths in Victoria than any other Australian State or Territory.

https://covidlive.com.au/

And another 113 deaths added last week in case aquascoot's forgotten already.

Quote:


No one knows why.

We had the strictest lockdowns and still the highest deaths.

Good one Carl and


Raina MacIntyre 😷💉💉💉💉
@Globalbiosec

Well, pre-COVID sick ppl went to work and out in public without masks.
It is a return to that.