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1. Support Construction of the UBC Hospice at its proposed location 
The proposed hospice facility is being challenged by a group of residents based on cultural belief, rather being based on whether we need to provide the care necessary for our elderly and all others living in palliative care.
A decision to build a wonderful caring hospice in any city in Canada should never be based on religion or culture. This hospice must be built for the people of Canada who need it.
2. Because We Care – It's time to fix aged care
Please sign the ANF’s Because We Care petition calling on the Productivity Commission to recognise the crisis in staffing levels/skills mix and wages in aged care and to make recommendations to fix these issues in their report to the Federal Government.
3. Australia Post mailbox for residents at Mercy Health Aged Care-ILU, Parkville
Australia Post Letterbox not located near to this Facility of Aged Residents, nearest is 15kms away.
Most Residents are elderly and don't have any means of transport.
4. Stop Benevolent Society's Commercial Redevelopment of Community Site
The Benevolent Society (TBS) has land on Ocean Street, BONDI. This land:
- was donated to them in 1917, instead of being purchased;
- is not charged Council rates;
- is partially Heritage listed;
- contains a number of rare and protected species of trees.
TBS wants to build on this land:
- two 10 storey buildings;
- one 8 storey building;
- one 6 storey building;
- other structures and facilities.
The buildings would consist of 127 apartments. These apartments would not be sold, but would be perpetually loan-leased to elderly people, and mostly at market rates (loan-lease is an arrangement in which a lump sum payment up-front guarantees lease until death, then the property is leased again, and again, and again).
They lodged a development application (DA) on with the Waverley Council on 21 May 2008 (http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/council/pes/building/detail.asp?DaID=309).
This project raises many serious concerns such as:
1. The scale of the development (8 - 10 storeys) is shocking in an already overdeveloped area.
2. Only 10% of the appartments will be for the needy - all the former occupants who were really elderly and needy were evicted & had to move out of their regular environment.
3. Although TBS got the land for free, a great majority of the apartments will be sold for a total of millions on the open market.
4. The terrifying traffic & parking problems it will cause, when approx 200-300 extra residents, visitors, carers, tradesmen etc will start converging in their vehicles toward the limited number of 80 car spaces provided. The overflow will end up looking for parking space in both Ocean & Wellington Sts., where there probably like now, will be none.
5. There appears to be no provision for in-house care. "Apartments for Life" as they like to call it, but with no carers for the elderly!
6. Dementia sufferers will be left to roam around, like they tend to do, in such a large complex with insufficient supervision.
7. Detrimental impact on local residents by the reduction of light due to shadows cast by the height of the proposed buildings. e.g. almost complete lack of sunlight 24/7 on the north & westerly side of the building in 22-28 Wellington St., with probably a similar effect on other buildings in the area. The traffic congestion & the strain on the environment with regard to water, sewerage, electricity, vehicle pollution and the intention to destroy trees to make room for the bldgs.
8. The whole project appears to be an experimental one, in that no-one knows if it will benefit anyone, or if it will be fully occupied.
9. The closure of the Maurice O'Sullivan Childreens' Day Care Centre will certainly leave working parents in an unenviable situation.
10. Lastly but not leastly, TBS has been caught lying many times in their communication about the project. For example, they claimed they had the support from Bondi School to open a new childcare, which is not true, and they said they would inform the community of the lodgment date of the DA, which did not happen.
More information is available in
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/benevolent-development-lacks-charity-say-residents/2008/05/21/1211182896592.html and http://www.oceandoa.org/
