These photos were taken on the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea. My uncle another Alf McGoldrick, nephew of the one I wrote about earlier today is the man in the middle of this photo. I was told he was very tall and very handsome and fit as well as a really nice bloke. This crew were a burial detail - We buried theirs when able - Not all these men made it home but Alf did and someone else in this photo - if you blow the first one up it explains what the photo is about. although the names are not in order as I know what Alf looked like...Sadly they survived this horrible time only to both be killed when they rolled a jeep (I believe) soon after the war out near where the Glenbawn dam was being built -

















Here in the next pphoto the bloke on the right is amongst friends,

 dressed like them armed like them and yet once 

he returned to Australia he was not allowed to vote 

nor enter the RSL clubs dedicated to servicemen - at least this has improved

Uncle Alf McGoldrick born in the late 1880's

A young woman

 whom I know loves horses called for the horses used in war to be honoured today ANZAC day - she inspired me to remember what I was told not so long ago by an uncle. Pictured here are two images of my maternal Grandfather Tom's younger brother Alf who was born in the 1880's - I wrote on her page 
"My Uncle Alf was a Gunner in WW1 in France - A Gunner was a soldier who was on horseback - his own horse - often - and they had the larger guns strapped to the horses to take to the front line. It was years later when he was able to tell another Uncle Des - who had just returned from Kokoda - WW2 - that the army vets were ordered by top brass to cut the horses vocal chords because the sounds of their screaming when they were shot were causing the men to be really upset. Uncle Alf and my grandfather Tom were horsebreakers and it was commented on that not once were they ever seen to use whips - they did it the way they had been taught by the Irish fathers - Alf loved horses and this must have been a dreadful memory - he was later gassed and survived but was never as strong as he had been - never married nor had kids - He lived till old age - and as a child on the rare times I saw him I loved him but was too young to know why he was a little hard to be around. It is these such and their horses that we honour today."

Young Alf

Bullfighter Quits from Compassion–Beautiful | Stuart Wilde | The Official Author Website

Bullfighter Quits from Compassion–Beautiful | Stuart Wilde | The Official Author Website

An Inquiry - depends on how hard its pushed

Today I had news from the greens John Kaye NSW Parliament - who has written he will ask Jillian Skinner in Parliament about an Inquiry for the torture and death of Don in 2007. At the launch of my book "Without Due Care" Mr Andrew Stoner who is now the Deputy Premier supported me in my quest for an Inquiry - (I have this in his email to me). Now in Parliament he will not respond to me letters. So now for John Kaye I uploaded DVD footage of the book launch in NSW Parliament House 2010 Sept. It is in three parts - worth the watch as it is strong and needed stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AfJ9oYqiiI "Without Due care" Book Launch held at NSW Parliament House Sept 2010 Part 1 – MC, Andrew Stoner MP, Melissa, Alison and Therese Mackay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rkBchqPQck "Without Due care" Book Launch held at NSW Parliament House Sept 2010 Part 2 – Therese Mackay, John Hatton, Eve Hillary

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3EC6-wYYg4"Without Due care" Book Launch held at NSW Parliament House Sept 2010 Part 3 – Eve Hillary and Lorraine Long

Ian

My good mate Ian had his Funeral Service today. I was unable to go back to NSW for the Funeral so lit a candle and thought about him - so hard to believe - he was such a funny Celt. A decent guy and so well informed and open minded...a treasure as not many like that about - his flatmate Bren is devastated and will grieve for him.

 

RIP Ian Crewe

Bren Brown and Ian Crewe

I have just heard that a good decent friend died on Saturday, horribly, sadly. He was honest, and funny. One of the good ones on this earth. He was an amputee from a car accident in the 80's and went on to develop Addison s disease soon after. It is a horrible disease which usually only those who have it and very few enlightened medical people truly understand. Because of this Ian suffered often when he needed to go to hospital - like many who suffer deeply, he seldom complained and even on the very bad days was always ready with something funny to tell. Unlike so many he was although not always coping well himself ready to help out in any way he could. I shall miss deeply our regular phone calls and the many subjects we covered. I shall miss knowing his view about what things amused him in my old home town. Although he died alone and was not found for a while - I know from what my husband told me shortly before his own death that nobody on this earth dies alone. Someone who loves them is there with them to ease the terror. Goodbye Ian, hopefully there is no more pain for you only light around you. Bren his good  friend found Ian sadly passed away on the bathroom floor - hours after he had died - she herself had been in Hospital and just returned. I got to know Ian and Bren after I published my book Without Due care - he rang me as he had seen the add in the paper but he was really unwell so i bought it around to him. From Wales - he had a rich Celtic humour. Ian died horrible sadly - and I had trouble getting control of myself . He was one of the good ones on this planet. I visited Ian and Bren in December when I was home and am so glad I did - I was made so welcome. He took such pride showing me the view over the canals from their place - a place sadly Bren has to leave now as she on her own cannot afford the rent. A wonderful man. A good friend and one of a kind.

Today it is 6 years to the day of when the butchers who were Don's doctors botched their surgery on him  - and sent him on the path five weeks later to another horrible death. The synchronicity of these two events is sad to consider

warnings growing about the dangers of school use of WIFI

If you have a child in a school who uses wi-fi consider the attached. In France WiFi in schools is banned and they have gone back to Wired.... this as well applies to those who use laptops and Ipads a lot -

www.wifi-in-schools-australia.org

http://youtu.be/OzYGBu-jYvs    just lovely and so many memories

I have just finished listening to the Radio Talk show posted below...in a previous post. It reminded me so much of everything I have felt and experienced. One Quote from the show "The people who are victims know. the rest think you are making it up." Some things are so bad so horrible sometimes you cannot find the words for it but these people are exactly where I am in my head. I am so pleased that in the online community we are all starting to find each other. I am more than happy to post a copy of my book in hard copy to anyone free of charge but it is available on line as a pdf here. One person on the show said "You (doctors) are killing  our loved ones and then you make us try to prove you were wrong" That resonates with me. There has never been any one government organisation ever or official body who has given a damn that these monsters are killing over and over. Errors I understand. But continued errors, multiple errors and covering up - there are some serial killers amongst the medical profession. There are serial rapists, misogynists (Reeves), people who think they are God and won't even wash their own hands because they don't have germs. My heart goes out to all those who have suffered at the hands  of these monsters. One lady on this show had her daughter killed 10 years ago...she is still grieving and just wants some justice - Don was killed close to 6 years ago and the call for justice has never left my heart. To hear others talk as they have in here is like talking and listening to close friends because we do know the gravity of the massive cover up.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/deirdregilbert/2013/04/04/life-radio-show
"HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC VIEW

Many medical organizations in this country are making mistakes that kill and seriously injure patients. This information about these tragedies have been hidden from public view. A spokesperson for the HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration who oversees the Data Bank says they have a responsibility to make sure under federal law that information in the system remains confidential.

What they are failing to realize is that the National Practitioner Data Bank original intent was to be a flagging system for organizations credentialing healthcare professionals. The Data Bank has done nothing to protect the public and only created a secret bank to keep the people from knowing that some doctors and medical personnel have serious infractions against them, ranging from drug and alcohol abuse to child trafficking. The organizations want to suppress this information from the public. David Baker and advocate like so many others are trying to change this. The people have the right to know."

She never seems to answer any letters

A Long time ago but with photos being so clear sometimes it feels like the people are just about to speak. 
Always where there is great love there is always the risk of great grief but I rather have had that experience of that love than to have only loved lightly. I can't imagine living all my life in that hollow passionless way with someone you don't have that spark. So in a way our family was and is lucky because of what we had - we know it is possible. I am still chasing that mongrel of a NSW Health Department to act and I am not obsessed in this, in that most of my life is pretty happy, but for me I have to continue for the reason that it is the right thing to do. So this letter to Jillian Skinner just went everywhere - to anyone I could think of and to her of course.
"2/4/2013

Dear Ms Jillian Skinner,

I have not received even an acknowledgement of my letter to you written/ sent/ received 16^th March 2013. It is now 2^nd of April 2013. When will you respond in full to my letter to you please? It is not good enough to just claim “nothing to be gained by opening this case for further investigation and consider the matter now closed.”  Please tell me what part of my husband’s brutalisation and death was acceptable practice in any country at any time. It appears you condone such disgusting practices if you choose to do nothing. Please tell me you do not condone the shocking botch of his surgery and its cover up. Please do not think that because my husband was a Quadriplegic that his suffering and death was any lesser importance than if he had been able bodied. It appears this way to me.

You are now responsible as the Health Minister. My husband deserves  justice for how horribly he was forced to suffer and for being killed how he was. What we witnessed will never leave our nightmares. It just is not right Ms Skinner and you know it. He has just been put in the “too hard” basket. I do not know of what beliefs you have but it is on these sorts of things we will be judged.

Please take the time soon to respond. I am not going away and no matter what the doctors and hospital involved they will not be burying their criminal mistakes which cost my poor husband his life.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Therese Mackay"