It may be a few months or longer before I am able to do so. I am almost 85, live alone and receive lots of excellent help via an aged, disability grant.

A month ago my GP made a house visit.

On Friday, needing prescriptions, which I require every three months for pain management, I tried to arrange another house visit, without success.

I was told that a home visit "was not going to work for the GP or me", and I should come in person.

Whilst this is annoyingly an impossibility, I wonder, have I made someone uncomfortable and thus merited to be tossed away?

The view from the "too hard basket" is grim.

It was fine, whilst for years I attended the practice brought in by a carer, in a car and using my wheelchair. Always welcomed, provided with services. Today, they can't meet my needs.

I am preparing to make new arrangements. But I am not alone in this situation.

What do you do for GP service when aged, partly-disabled and confined to your house?

I am unsure of Kevin Mack's ability to fix the Murray-Darling Water Basin Plan. He has shown a surprisingly significant dislike of and an inability to understand all things to do with water, in my experience.

To support this view I would point people to his management of the Albury pool facilities and his contempt for the water sporting community, specifically the ongoing battle he has had with the Ovens and Murray Aquatic Action Group that is at eight months and counting. If he is unable to fix or manage the pools, how is he about to start to understand the complexity of the basin plan?

Hell hath no fury like politicians who have been caught out.

The body language of Barnaby Joyce and Angus Taylor over the $80 million water buyback suggests to me that there is something very ... "wrong in the state of the Darling" (apologies to Hamlet).

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The Murray-Darling Basin Agreement is not working as intended. This river system covers one-seventh of the country and affects four states and the ACT. National and Liberal party politicians cannot be trusted to get this right and, as a country, we cannot allow these rivers to be messed up.

We do not need backward -ooking conservatives (such as Joyce and Taylor and their ilk) who have held Australia to ransom on climate and energy water policy for the last 10 to 15 years or more.

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