It's just, it's madness.

It is, and it doesn't make sense.

And, you know, in my view, this isn't harm minimisation.

It's the government acting as a quality control service for drug dealers at music festivals.

You know, if the messaging is that we know these drugs can kill young people, we've got to hammer that home hard.

There can't be any mixed messaging coming from government.

And I have to say, when we look at what's happened under this government over the last couple of months, even in terms of their drug policy...

But when we've got people having to ring a radio station and a radio program like this on 2GB, Sarah, surely the priority for the health minister in New South Wales is our hospitals rather than making excuses for those who want to take illegal drugs.

But while ever the population continues to increase and while ever we have a large number of migrants coming to New South Wales, it's roughly twenty-five percent, the hospitals will continue to be under pressure, won't they?

they?Well, we're seeing more pressure, but we're also seeing the government not deliver yet on some of their commitments.

And, you know, the Premier was talking today about, you know, investment in, in new and upgraded hospitals.

Well, when we were in government, we delivered 180 new and upgraded hospitals.

I think we left about 130 projects in the pipeline.

Um, the investment in capital infrastructure is actually slowing down under this government when it comes to health, and you can see that when you look at the budget papers.

And there's a lot of things people are still waiting for.

... intelligent use of resources.

But while ever the population continues to increase and while ever we have a large number of migrants coming to New South Wales, it's roughly twenty-five percent, the hospitals will continue to be under pressure, won't they?

Well, we're seeing more pressure, but we're also seeing the government not deliver yet on some of their commitments.

And, you know, the Premier was talking today about, you know, investment in, in new and upgraded hospitals.

Well, when we were in government, we delivered a hundred and eighty new and upgraded hospitals.

I think we left about a hundred and thirty projects in the pipeline.

Um, the investment in capital infrastructure is actually slowing down under this government when it comes to health, and you can see that when you look at the budget papers.

And there's a lot of things people are still waiting for.

That sounds like it's an intelligent use of resources.

It needs to be expected that flu season puts a lot of strain on hospitals.

hospitals.Yeah, look, absolutely.

And, and two months ago, the health minister put out a press release saying that New South Wales hospitals were ready for the predicted spike in those hospital presentations and admissions and that things were, you know, there'd been extensive preparations, I think was the wording.

Um, yet, as you say, after sort of a b-a bad forty-eight hours, now people are being told not to come unless it's life-threatening.

And I have to say, you know, flu season is here, and it can be very tough.

But if you're dealing with a respiratory illness, if you've got a sick child, you don't wanna muck around.

You wanna make sure that you can go to an ED and be seen, and I think this messaging is pretty dangerous.

But isn't it a fact that a lot of people do arrive at an emergency department who don't need to be there, that they may be able to be attended by somebody at a GP clinic?

And so I'll start with turning it over to Sarah.

Hi, everyone.

So I will say one thing that I do love about Ed Webb, you know, with being the non-traditional student and my husband as well, sometimes we are living on a Red Bull and a prayer in this house.

So one thing that I really love is that I can listen to it on the way to soccer practice.

I can listen to it in the car.

I can listen to it going down whatever aisle in the grocery store.

I also feel like it's very important for first year teachers to know that they're not alone, that there are a lot of people that have the same questions that you have.

You're getting a lot of affirmation in the chat, by the way, if you're

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Yeah.

The lexical quality hypothesis is really the basis of everything that I do and all of the training that I do with my teachers, 'cause as you said, it's just so critically important.

So that was introduced to me through, um, Maryanne Wolf's REVO Reading approach.

And to break that down for teachers, I use something called the word study map, which just helps them to anchor their thinking in making sure that they're moving through all of those parts.

So when we're talking lexical quality, we're talking the phonological representations of a word, but also the semantic representations of a word, and that can be broken down as it is in my map.

I've got six key parts, starting with sounds, meaning, spelling, connections, morphemes, and sentences.

And if you want to blame that on people like Sarah and me, I'll be glad to take that blame.