Safety on School Buses After some incidents on local school buses that led to children being injured, in 2024 I and other parents contacted our local MP’s to ask that buses on school runs be fitted with seat belts. Both Liesl Tesch, Member for Gosford and Gordon Reid, Member for Robertson, referred the issue to Jenny Aitchison, the NSW Minister for Roads and Regional Transport. To paraphrase the response: Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002 require all regular route services to be timetabled as accessible services. Seat belts are not compatible with the needs of passengers who require the…

AGING WITH DIGNITY Thursday 26th June – 13 Nurses Rd, Central Mangrove Meeting starts 1pm, pre-meeting lunch from 12pm The vision is to enable older people to stay in their community for all of life. Often in a rural community it becomes unsafe for frail elderly people to remain in their own home . There are obvious reasons why this may be so, isolation, lack of transport, disability, elder abuse to mention a few. However should that mean they must leave the community? What we need is somewhere reserved for local people where they can safely spend their senior lives….