I've started a bit of a health kick this month with my staff, so wish me luck! You can check out the wacky ways I've been exercising here. There's a video on my brand new TikTok account with some funny behind the scenes stuff - you can follow me @senatortammytyrrell .
This month I'm giving you my two cents on a sugar tax and sharing your thoughts on unpaid placements for students.
MY QUESTION TO YOU:
Should the Federal Government help struggling medical clinics to stay afloat - even if they are privately owned? If yes, what sort of assistance should they provide?
(In Tasmania, many rural and regional medical clinics have closed. This is due to a lack of doctors, the clinic running at a loss, or several other factors).
Email me at [email protected]with your thoughts, and I'll share some of the responses with you next month!
We got a minimum guarantee of 1200 homes for every state and territory across the line when the Housing Australia Future Fund passed the Senate in early September.
This will mean that homelessness in Tasmania is going backwards for the first time ever. I'm so proud to have delivered this for Tassie (and the rest of the country).
MY HOT TAKE:
Do you think there should be a junk food tax? We urgently need it and a sugar tax on all soft drink. — Ian (via email)
Hey Ian, you're not the first person to raise this with me, and I don't think you'll be the last. As someone who doesn't mind a bit of junk food every now and then, I can safely say that I eat it knowing it's not good for me. Every now and then you just feel like a bit of a treat. I don't see much harm in that.
We've got a lot of people up in Canberra who are excited about banning everything they don't like. I take a different view.
I think you give people information, you let them make a decision based on the facts, but you don't take away their ability to decide things. That's what a sugar tax would do.
(Or at least, that's what it would do for people who don't have much money. Because millionaires aren't going to notice if the cost of a Caramello Koala goes up by 50 per cent, but people around my neck of the woods sure are).
YOUR TAKES:
Last month I asked: Should businesses and organisations pay for students to do practical placements?
Here's some of my favourite responses:
I do believe they should because if they do full time work placement than how do we expect them to leave that & then go to do a paying job afterwards? They have rent, electricity, medication & food to pay for. Are we trying to kill these poor students that we need in those areas of qualifications?" — Clare
Noo I don’t think they should be payed for placement. It is part of the learning, otherwise you should talking about paying all placements for everyone not just one." — Paul
Yes students should absolutely be paid. How does a single mum, looking to change careers, pay for childcare and rent in those two or three week stints of working full time in a hospital or medical setting?" — Marcus
Whilst I believe organisations need to pay the students a wage/salary it should be at a greatly reduced rate compared to fully qualified staff.This will allow students to pay for the basics in life (roof over their heads / food on the table) but not profit from their efforts." — Les
My thoughts? Here's a video of what I think. Young people in my office tell me this is going gangbusters on social media which I'm a bit surprised by, but I'm glad people are engaged on this issue! It's a real problem.
What do you think? Let me know by replying to this email.
Until next time,
Tammy
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