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I have become very aware of the contributions ELSEWHEREpeople. make to the City of Launceston's and indeed Tasmanian’s, social and cultural wellbeing.
Without these people in our community our healthcare system, and much, much more, would be in a very sorry state. Largely, these people’s contribution to each and everyone’s wellbeing is generally unacknowledged and sadly it’s unappreciated too.
Many of these people are with us on visas that enable them to work with us to keeping our health services operational and indeed functional. If they were not here, generally, our wellbeing would be severely compromised.
In fact, our healthcare system would fail to function.
Somewhat belatedly, we have come to an understanding that we need to acknowledge the First Tasmanians, the lutruwita’s palawa/pakana people, and it has been revealed that the sky didn’t fall in. So, in much the same way our ELSEWHEREpeople might be overtly acknowledged as well.
Regarding them simply as ‘the hired help’ is an obscenity and it is the kind of ‘rankism’ that comes with sexism, ageism, ableism, bullying, etc.
We need to do much better and overtly acknowledge
ELSEWHEREpeople for their citizenship and the contributions they make to not only our economy but also our cultural realities.
Ray Norman
Launceston
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