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Dialysis Patients Desperate For Local Services By Mitch Lees KIDNEY disease kills over 3 million Australians a year and the need for dialysis is increasing as our population ages with 7% of people over 65 needing treatment according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This trend has prompted a group of local kidney dialysis patients to meet with Port Stephens MP Kate Washington, who has recently been appointed Shadow Minister for the Environment, Heritage, and Rural Health, to discuss the growing need for dialysis services on the Tomaree
Peninsula. Currently, residents needing dialysis have to travel to Newcastle two to three times a week with the treatment process taking over five hours per session. Ms Washington said that after meeting with patients in Port Stephens it was clear that it was time for local services to be made available. “The meeting with local dialysis patients confirmed to me that there is a desperate need for dialysis services on the Tomaree Peninsula,” said Ms Washigton. “For people who are dependent on dialysis this is an
Kate’s Roles
By Heather SHARP
THE Labor Party has, four months after the 18 March State Election selected Ms
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Jodi McKay as their leader and Shadow Ministerial appointments were promptly announced. In her second term of
q Port Stephens MP Kate Washington with some local dialysis patients.
Parliament, Member for Port Stephens Ms Kate Washington has taken on a range of roles in her new shadow ministry appointment.
The newly minted Shadow Minister for the Environment and Heritage and Shadow Minister for Rural Health will have a wide portfolio to grasp,
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WASHINGTON: “I’m looking forward to my new role advocating for our environment...”
as she begins her second term. Ms Washington has a long standing reputation as being concerned for the natural environment especially with
the plight of the koalas in her electorate. Ms Washington told News CONTINUED Page 2
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