Like their colleagues, Minister for Health Mark Butler, Minister for Trade and Tourism Don Farrell and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong, Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers and my local Member of Parliament Steve Georganas were completely uninterested in forcing health insurers to obey the law.
People dying from cancer did not matter to Jim Chalmers and Steve Georganas.
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Margaret dancing at our wedding on the 30th of July 2009.
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This woman pretended to be Margaret’s friend – she married us but forgot she had ever done this in her video eulogy at Margaret’s funeral. Maeve O’Byrne on the 15th of June 2013.
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Letter to Treasurer Jim Chalmers
Jim Chalmers was appointed Australian Treasurer after the 21st of May 2021 elections. I wrote to him on the 8th of July 2022. This summarises my attempts to communicate with Chalmers. I have never heard anything – ever – from Jim Chalmers.
This is a link to the letter I sent to Jim Chalmers.
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Communication Details | Length of Correspondence | How Sent | Date of Response | Length of Response | What Did Response Say? |
Letter to Jim Chalmers dated 8 July 2023 | 6 pages | Email sent to jchalmers@aph.gov.au at 4:57 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | Automatic reply received at 4.58 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | 7 lines | Thanks for your email. I don’t regularly monitor this address. If your email is related to my work in the electorate please send it to my electorate office staff via jim.chalmers.mp@aph.gov.au If it’s work related and for me personally please send it to jchalmers@treasury.gov.au If it’s not work related, your best bet for the time being is jchalmers78@gmail.com
Thanks again |
Letter to Jim Chalmers dated 8 July 2023 | 8 pages | Email sent to jcahalmers@treasury.gov.au at 5.03 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Letter to Jim Chalmers dated 8 July 2023 | 8 pages | Email sent to bonnie.pederson@aph.gov.au at 11.07 am on Saturday 9 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Document Called “How the Health Insurance Funds’ Scams Work - Information compiled in March 2022 – John Hankin” | 5 pages | Email sent to jchalmers@aph.gov.au at 4:57 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | Automatic reply received at 4.58 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | 7 lines | Thanks for your email. I don’t regularly monitor this address. If your email is related to my work in the electorate please send it to my electorate office staff via jim.chalmers.mp@aph.gov.au If it’s work related and for me personally please send it to jchalmers@treasury.gov.au If it’s not work related, your best bet for the time being is jchalmers78@gmail.com
Thanks again |
Document Called “How the Health Insurance Funds’ Scams Work - Information compiled in March 2022 – John Hankin” | 5 pages | Email sent to jcahalmers@treasury.gov.au at 5.03 pm on Friday 8 July 2022
| No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Document Called “How the Health Insurance Funds’ Scams Work - Information compiled in March 2022 – John Hankin” | 5 pages | Email sent to bonnie.pederson@aph.gov.au at 11.07 am on Saturday 9 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Copy of letter dated to Mark Johnson, Chairman of HCF | 13 pages | Email sent to jchalmers@aph.gov.au at 4:57 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | Automatic reply received at 4.58 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | 7 lines | Thanks for your email. I don’t regularly monitor this address. If your email is related to my work in the electorate please send it to my electorate office staff via jim.chalmers.mp@aph.gov.au If it’s work related and for me personally please send it to jchalmers@treasury.gov.au If it’s not work related, your best bet for the time being is jchalmers78@gmail.com
Thanks again |
Copy of letter dated to Mark Johnson, Chairman of HCF | 13 pages | Email sent to jcahalmers@treasury.gov.au at 5.03 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Copy of letter dated to Mark Johnson, Chairman of HCF | 13 pages | Email sent to bonnie.pederson@aph.gov.au at 11.07 am on Saturday 9 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
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I have never been acquainted with Chalmers, but I hoped that on a matter of such obvious importance to his fellow Australians, he would ensure something was done. I had never met his predecessor Josh Frydenberg either, but Josh Frydenberg had made one of his officers acknowledge my letters and instructed the ACCC to investigate.
Although I heard nothing from Chalmers, the ACCC investigation was terminated at about the time I wrote to Chalmers.
People dying from cancer did not matter to Jim Chalmers.
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Letter to Local Member of Parliament Steve Georganas
Steve Georganas became my local member of Parliament after the 21 May 2021 elections. I wrote to him on 8 July 2022. This Table summarises my attempts to communicate with Steve Georganas. I have never heard anything at all – ever – from Steve Georganas.
Link to the Steve Georganas letter I sent.
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Communication Details | Length of Correspondence | How Sent | Date of Response | Length of Response | What Did Response Say? |
Letter to Steve Georganas dated 8 July 2023 | 4 pages | Email sent to sgeorganas@aph.gov.au at 4:47 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Letter to steve Georganas dated 8 July 2023 | 4 pages | Email sent to bonnie.pederson@aph.gov.au at 11.07 am on Saturday 9 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Document Called “How the Health Insurance Funds’ Scams Work - Information compiled in March 2022 – John Hankin” | 5 pages | Email sent to sgeorganas@aph.gov.au at 4:47 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Document Called “How the Health Insurance Funds’ Scams Work - Information compiled in March 2022 – John Hankin” | 5 pages | Email sent to bonnie.pederson@aph.gov.au at 11.07 am on Saturday 9 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Copy of letter dated to Mark Johnson, Chairman of HCF | 13 pages | Email sent to sgeorganas@aph.gov.au at 4:47 pm on Friday 8 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
Copy of letter dated to Mark Johnson, Chairman of HCF | 13 pages | Email sent to bonnie.pederson@aph.gov.au at 11.07 am on Saturday 9 July 2022 | No reply ever received | Zero length | No content and no reply |
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I had no previous acquaintance with Georganas but some attendees at the Lift Cancer Support Meetings that Margaret and I went to, had said they had lodged complaints about the health insurers with Georganas. They had been told that Georganas was eager to raise questions in Parliament about the conduct of the health insurers. Supposedly, Georganas wanted to do this only when he was given permission to do so by the patients.
People dying from cancer did not matter to Georganas.
