Today I visited my GP for a repeat prescription of my Hormone Replacement Therapy medication.
I was advised that the Rudd Labor Government had removed all types of HRT from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme listing as at August 1, 2009.
My pharmacist advised me of the full cost of this medication, which as a retiree and part pensioner I cannot afford.
It is indeed obvious our Health Minister is a young woman.
A nicer person than I would wish her well with her menopause when it eventually hits.
Hopefully by then we will have a more sympathetic government which will allow women in their post reproductive years to live an active menopause-symptom-free life with their friends, offspring and grandchildren.
Where is the outrage about this decision; I must have been living under a rock recently as I have heard or read nothing about this decision. Perhaps I have been too busy travelling and living my active life.
R. M. Borough, Kingston
Modern rail
Kingston Railway Station is a relic from when Canberra was a one-horse town.
Think one-million people and Civic will be central to an ACT rail network.
Fast interstate passenger trains should stop at Queanbeyan and terminate in Civic.
The few interstate freight trains Canberra needs should terminate in Fyshwick.
Very fast trains to the airport, and restoring steam engines, are red herrings.
The top priority is reserving land for commuter trains before it's all sold.
Graham Macafee, Latham
Mad housing
Why is the Government so keen to build units for 9000 people (''End of the line for Kingston'', August 26, p1).
We can't support the people we already have.
Surely we have to put a stop to this madness until the infrastructure is in place to support more people.
Tony Cook, Kambah
Green alert
Greens, where are you?
Your government is making disastrous environmental decisions while you worry about marriage ceremonies.
Moving the railway station to a distant site discourages public transport, shifting freight to roads increases greenhouse emissions and subsidising change from renewable firewood to fossil fuel gas must be a world-first measure promoting climate change.
Stjepan Marcelja, Kambah
Less inhumanity
I am somewhat bemused by the various moral dilemmas raised by the latest developments in the Lockerbie tragedy. First we have the wanton murder of 270 innocents punished only by the lifetime imprisonment of a single individual.
Then, this dying man is released on ''humanitarian grounds'' so he may die in his own land where he is greeted like a returning hero. The American reaction, predictably, is aligned with Old Testament views of an eye for an eye.
The reaction of the neo-Calvinists in Edinburgh is a little harder to understand. Perhaps the answer lies in realising that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi is of less importance in this matter than reflecting on ways to reduce man's inhumanity to man.
The world's religions have told us how to behave but what can make us stick to the plan?
Rick Patten, Phillip
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