Enough of the

IT was a surprise and delight to read (Mail, 11 October) that there is to be an afterhours clinic built at Healesville now, and a second one later at Yarra Junction.
I thought: “Wisdom has prevailed and we will all get what we have wanted all the time a clinic at Healesville now and one at Yarra Junction in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile it is going to be easier to go to Healesville through the traffic and then the hours of waiting by going to Maroondah.”
I thought this would have unanimous support until I read the next paragraph.
Gembrook MP Tammy Lobato is now opposed to the Yarra Junction project. She has to accept responsibility that the Woori Yallock plan did not eventuate. Her excuse was that she wanted it in Yarra Junction. Now she opposes Yarra Junction. Why?
Over the past three years I have developed a great respect for Ms Lobato as a state member but all the good she has done is neutralised by her persistent politicising of our health service needs.
McEwen MP Fran Bailey has the money and Ms Lobato has still only an idea. So why not put her energy behind Ms Bailey to get the Yarra Junction clinic up and running?
Ms Lobato claims to have done the preliminary work in making the case and now she has opportunity to apply the results of that work.
She can only oppose this for one of three reasons:
1. It is a Liberal member’s plan from a Liberal government. Is M Lobato so political that she thinks only Labor has good ideas?
2. Her dislike of Ms Bailey blinds her thinking rationally when it comes to our health service needs.
3. She does not understand the mindset of Yarra Valley residents.
Come on Tammy, our health service needs in Upper Yarra are too urgent and crucial for girls to play party politics.
Albert Grulke
Warburton