[Dean from Australia]

Yeah, I'm doing okay man, thanks for asking.

There has been a push on to try and unify legislation and practices across the country (Australia has 7 states and 2 territories) but the problem has been that each state is governed either by the conservatives (Lib/Nat Coalition) or the less conservatives (Austrlalian Labor Party) and they all love to grandstand and blame shift on health whenever there is an opportunity to score cheap political points.

Nurses like me and Doctors end up being political pawns to be used and abused at the whim of the incumbent government.

I've been popping pills like a mo-fo over the weekend and that's keeping on top of my pain. The irony is, I'll probably end up with an addiction to prescription meds as a result of all this.

Isn't life grand.