These health facilities include Curalo Medical Clinic (Dr Michael Pentin), Pambula/Bega/Canberra Hospitals, Community Health, our local Paramedics, and the Eden Pharmacy. 

We are very fortunate to have great facilities and staff to attend to our health needs.

In addition the understanding and support by the local Eden business precinct of my uncle’s fading health and to myself certainly made life much easier. 

These notable businesses include Roswitha’s Delicatessen, Cuppa’s Cafe, Tribal Suzani, Eden Fish and Chips, Eden IGA, Commonwealth Bank, Great Southern Inn Hotel, Hooked On Seafood, Ben Boyd Service Station, Eden Post Office and the Eden Magnet.

A special note of thanks goes to Leigh Hennessey, Manager of the Great Southern Inn Hotel, for his generous catering gesture for the Ken’s wake where he was a long term customer.

Without the caring assistance of John R Whyman Funerals and the wonderful support from Animal Welfare the final closure on the life of Ken Bobbin was put into place.

The Eden Community has again displayed its true loving and attentive spirit in caring for Ken and myself during my uncle’s fading health. Thank you Eden.

The media and the political analysts continue to refer to Malcolm Turnbull as Australia's 29th Prime Minister.

They are quite wrong. 

These commentators insist that we have had five PMs in the last five years.

This of course is correct if, as we should, include Kevin Rudd as having served as PM on two separate occasions. 

On the one hand these so-called political experts recognise this fact.

However, on the other fail to acknowledge that Alfred Deakin and Andrew Fisher each served as Prime Minister on three separate occasions and Robert Menzies served twice. 

While Malcolm Turnbull is the 29th person to become PM, he is in fact the 35th Prime Minister of Australia.

Out with the old ... and in with the new. Well sort of.

The election of Malcolm Turnbull merely gives us the same old devisive policies with a new silver-tongued salesman, silver spoon firmly in mouth. 

Just another retail politician but in a more expensive suit.

He has already pledged to pursue Abbott’s policies and some of his first words as leader confirm that nothing has changed: "This will be a thoroughly Liberal government. It will be a thoroughly Liberal government committed to freedom, the individual and the market”.

Words such as 'society', 'fairness', 'reducing inequality' and 'inclusiveness, amongst others, are conspicuously absent. 

As Dennis Glover has argued in his book, An Economy Is Not A Society – Winners and Losers In the New Australia, “we need to choose a future that is designed to benefit all the Australian people, not just some”. 

Turnbull has clearly not chosen this future even though he has the opportunity to repudiate the extremism of the Abbott years which, as a senior cabinet minister, he supported.

So pensioners, the unemployed and the other losers who were screwed under Abbott cannot expect to do any better under Abbott “lite”.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. [Translated: what goes around comes around].