Two weeks ago, my friend Ron had a heart attack. He was taken to an outer Melbourne Public Hospital. His wife and I sat at his side as he laid unconscious, attached to a machine that read his blood pressure and air etc.,
We were told that he had to have critical care nursing and that there was only one critical bed in all the state of Victoria. That one bed was at Geelong. Some eight hours later he was taken by ambulance to Geelong where he died five days later.
He had full cover with private Health Insurance, this meant nothing.
His wife and family were cut off from surport of their friends and extended family. That vital bed could have been Mildura even further away. Some thing must be done in regards to our Hospitals' funding. MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT.

My first post.

Has Mary Ann Parker nee Marwood vanished into the ether? she was born in 1883 in England daughter of Henry Parker who had died before 1904.m 1904 to Herbert Marwood in Hartlepool UK. She always said she was adopted by a family called O'Brian.
She was my Grandmother, She immigrated to Australia in about 1925 with her two daughters Connie and Daisy, joining her two sons William Marwood and Henry Herbert Marwood in Melbourne. Now I am trying to find out something about her but have come against a brick wall. If you come accross her name as a seven year old in the 1891 British Census, I would be gratefull.
Let this be a lesson, don't leave questions until too late.