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Amidst the disaster we can always find something positive

The fires are still burning, close to 200 people have died and nearly 800 homes lost.

Are you a pharmacist self starter wanting to work with a remote aboriginal health service.

This position will ensure continuity of care for the Ngaanyatjarra people through the hospital system.

Your work in all aspects of the medication management cycle has the aim of ensuring the best care on and off the lands of our mob.

This is the first position of it’s type in Australia. Can you make this position your own?

If you have any enquiries please contact me (Robbo) on 08 8956 7041 or email me on pharmacist AT bitethedust.com.au.

Ngaanyatjarra Health Service is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation providing primary health care on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in the Central Desert region of Western Australia.

We are seeking to employ a Continuity of Care Pharmacist to provide support to the lead Pharmacist, primary health care staff and patients in ensuring continuity of quality care.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated person who is experienced in clinical pharmacy in chronic diseases. The successful applicant will demonstrate the ability to work in a
multi-disciplinary team and possess an understanding of Aboriginal culture and the social determinants of health.

As an accredited pharmacist, registered or eligible to be registered in both Western Australia and Northern Territory, familiarity with WA Poisons and Pharmacy legislation and policies is highly desirable.

Based in Alice Springs the successful applicant will be required to travel and stay for periods in the Ngaanyatjarra lands. Attractive salary including salary packaging and relocation assistance is available.

Telephone enquiries to Peter Duff on (08) 8950 1756.
Written applications including CV
and two referees to Peter Duff,
Ngaanyatjarra Health Service, PO Box 644,
Alice Springs, NT 0871 or email to
peter.duff@nghealth.org.au by close of business 9th February

THERE'S some funny yarns coming out of the gulf floods and one of them shows just how much people living in and around the remote south-eastern Gulf Country community love their crumbed steak.

 Every Friday Georgetown butcher Tony Gallagher makes crumbed steak and the orders come in from far and wide. The thought of chomping down on that crumbed steak on Friday night is the thing that gets many of these hardworking folk through their week of toil and strife. Flooding threatened to disrupt the crumbed steak distribution network a couple of Fridays back and panic started to spread as news leaked out that the steak wouldn't get through. Branch Creek was up between Georgetown and Forsayth. It looked bad. That was until local hero Trevor `Perch' McFarlane came to the rescue.

 Perch, with the parcels of crumbed steak beside him, drove down the flooded road in his trusty 4X4, dodging boggy patches and raging gullies to meet Darren `Ab' Abbey who had driven out from Forsayth. Darren was on one side of Branch Creek and Perch was on the other. The pair found a place where they could cross on foot and the vital transfer of crumbed steak was made. But the story does not end here.

While Perch could go back to Georgetown and have a nice cup of tea and a slice of fruit cake, Ab then had to go out on another road to Dels Hole Station which was cut off by another section of Branch Creek. The owner of Dels Hole is one Kevin `Hooter' Young whose working week isn't complete if he can't finish it off with a platter of Georgetown's famous crumbed steak and a few mashed spuds. It was all good and Ab met Hooter and the steak transfer was made. Ab then proceeded back to Forsayth with the orders for the townsfolk safely tucked away on the seat beside him.

 Because of the flooding and an apparent shortage of meat, Mr Gallagher had to trim the orders back from 2kg a person to 1kg to ensure everyone received a portion.

 For more great tales from Northern Queensland read the Townsville Bulletin opinion column.

With social networking including products like Twitter which is increasingly used with mobile devices with access to the internet text messaging (SMS) now seems old fashioned to some.

However I am yet to hear of a relationship ended by one of the partners by a Tweet on Twitter.

Here is Tripod singing about breaking up by text message.

 Thanks to @einspruch  for the link

See the serious blog at BitingTheDust

At the bottom of my posts I used to write “don’t forget to visit the real blog” A friend wrote and said be positive, If I write “don’t forget” at the start of the sentence then they will.

Now I reckon I have only one other mate so obtuse as to do that, and on purpose, but I decided to be more positive in recommending the other blog and also adding a distinctive Australian touch. But then people might need to know a little about our sense of humour and particularly our culture to understand the new tag at the end of the posts. And so this post was born.

Australia used to have tough immigration laws as you can see from this interview from the seventies.

Some of our outdated laws even permeated our university thinking but the following gives a great overview of the level of thinking in our philosophy departments.

Any serious post on Australian Culture needs to include comments from our special Cultural Ambassador, Sir Les Patterson.

Here is a short comment:

Here is Part 1 of a TV special

Parts 2 and 3 aren’t too hard to find if you wish to watch the whole show.

To finally my inspiration to be more direct with my readers.

Go look at my other blog BitingTheDust or I am going to come around and rip your bloody arms off!