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  76 It’s A Long Way from Lancashire to Here, Part 3: 31 October 2024 After a period at General Motors, Cliff worked as a sheet metal worker at Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) building Australian versions of the French F 86 Sabre jets.   Cliff also worked at the Government Aircraft Factory. Josey initially worked at Government Aircraft Factory (GAF), which was next door to CAC.   Unlike CAC, the GAF was owned by the Australian Government.   It manufactured Beaufort fighter planes and Jindivick pilotless aircraft.   Josey then began work at General Motors . Houses in and around Port Melbourne are now very highly sought after and astonishingly expensive.   It wasn’t like that in 1952; then, Port Melbourne was a home for the poorer working classes.   Back in 1952, you could guarantee if you found any people with money in Port Melbourne, they had lost their way. **** Fisherman’s Bend Migrant Hostel was located in the middle of a large number of factories, an abattoir,

  75 My Battle to Make the Health Insurers Obey the Law Part 18, Section 3: 31 October 2024   Unpicking The Ombudsman Email of 5 April 2022 (2) Did Margaret Simply “Attend” Lift Cancer Care?   ”…   and had been attending [Lift] since January 2021.” Translation ↓ These words were selected to minimise what the law required the Ombudsman to investigate.   Margaret had attended Lift since January 2021, but only because her oncologist had recommended it.   The careful selection of words here creates the possibility Margaret decided to undertake the Lift program on her own initiative – something the Ombudsman knew was untrue .   My 3 December 2021 HCF letter said this. “Margaret commenced chemotherapy and radiotherapy in December 2020 and this treatment continued through January 2021.   The cancer went into remission in March 2021 but it surged back into renewed life in September 2021.   As I write this letter of compl

  74 My Battle to Make the Health Insurers Obey the Law Part 18, Section 1: 31 October 2024   Unpicking The Ombudsman Email of 5 April 2022     The “Official” Stamp “OFFICIAL ” Apart from the sign off at the end of the email, this is the only indication that the email might have come from a government agency.   The red font was used in the email.   Sending an email avoided sending anything on an official letterhead.   Except for the sign off at the end, nothing in this document positively identified it as a genuine Ombudsman communication.   It could have been typed and sent by HCF using the Ombudsman email address. Never in my five months of dealing with her did Ms De Sade send me anything on letterhead.   I do not believe Sarah De Sade actually wrote the email because it has a completely different tone from all previous emails from Ms De Sade.   I am confident it was written by someone else and sent from Sarah De Sade’s email address.   My guess is that this email

  73 My Battle to Make the Health Insurers Obey the Law Part 18, Section 1: 30 October 2024   The Ombudsman Tells Me to Bugger Off – 5 April 2022 This is an email that I finally received from the Ombudsman on 5 April 2022.   It told me very clearly that I should bugger off and stop bothering the Ombudsman.   I reproduce the email without alteration.   In later blogs, I will tease out the crimes that I believe the Ombudsman may may have committed by sending me this email.       Tue 5/04/2022 2:37 PM Sarah De Sade Sarah.DeSade@ombudsman.gov.au Commonwealth Ombudsman complaint - Hankin - Ref PHI-2021-101690 [SEC=OFFICIAL] To: John Hankin   OFFICIAL   Dear Mr Hankin   Thank you for contacting the Commonwealth Ombudsman about the issues you are experiencing with HCF and Lift Cancer Care (LCC). I appreciate your patience while our Office investigated your complaint.  I would like to advise that HCF have offered to reimburse you $8,623.0