[ozmidwifery] NMAP...

[TinaPettigrew]

Hi Barb and all...

had a great day yesterday...

the State Liberal Opposition Leader here in Victoria Robert Doyle ...came to visit my local shopping centre in Leopold on his tour of the Bellarine Peninsula to "meet the people" as prelude to the up and coming State election. I just happened to have a copy of NMAP in my hands and the opportunity to speak with him one-on-one Re: NMAP (he hadn't heard of it previously :-0 ). Rob Doyle says he is pro anything that will keep people out of hospitals...so I said NMAP is just what he was looking for to make a name for himself!!! Tell me more he asks...well I went on to say that currently here in Victoria, well women and their babies are being cared for by specialists...at huge cost to society and government..the analogy I used which pricked up his ears was "the equivalent of people with heart burn being cared for by cardiac specalists....huge waste of public money and resources"..etc etc... He seemed very interested in NMAP and undertook to "look over it". His parting comments were ! ! and I quote,"its sounds good....I'm sick of hearing from wingy doctors who tell me that midwives don't have the skills and knowledge"....

I also gave a copy of NMAP to my Liberal Candidate for Bellarine...whom I know very well...Frank Kelloway....whose wife just happens to be a midwife.....He will chase up NMAP with Robert Doyle, with a covering letter from his office and the current sitting Liberal member, Gary Spry, asking that NMAP be looked at as a matter of priority...

I will keep them to this with follow up communication over the next few weeks....with CC to Robert Doyle...

yours in reforming midwifery,
Tina Pettigrew

Bachelor of Midwifery Student
Victoria University.