DR MY LE TRINH POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION FOR CASTLE HILL

As a first priority, Dr Trinh believes she should ensure that government and departmental medical advisors are accredited and experts in the field. So often, the supposed medical experts that advise the government are not actual practitioners, nor are they across the latest advances in medicine and available treatments. This was the case with the medical advisors to state and federal governments of both parties during the height of the covid pandemic across Australia.

Second, and again in thinking about the medical needs of both her constituents and the people of the state, Dr Trinh would ensure that treatments, like the triple therapy that was so successful in eliminating covid in Utter Pradesh in India, are available to covid-susceptible Australians. These dangerous, socially transmittable viruses must receive early attention with the best medical brains focused on the most appropriate and available technologies and cures.

Third, the resulting chaos and over-reaction by both the federal and state governments have seen a major dislocation in business, has massively increased the national debt, disrupted education and impacted severely on personal and civil liberties. Again, if a more focused and expert emphasis was placed on the correct medical advice, such social and finance disruption, let alone fatalities could be put aside. Dr My Le Trinh will ensure that common sense, medical expertise and clinical trials replace knee-jerk political responses and paranoia.

Fourth, the Liberal Democrats are advocating the introduction of new nuclear technology for power generation. Today, the old and dangerous nuclear technology of the past is long gone. There will be no more Chernobyl’s, Fukushima’s or Three Mile Island disasters. Now, small nuclear-generating plants the size of a few shipping containers can power a town of 10,000 people. They cannot melt down as they only reach some 600 degrees centigrade and the small amount of waste they generate can be safely dealt with through the Australian technology, Synrock (synthetic rock). This was developed in 1978 by a team led by Professor Ted Ringwood at the ANU in Canberra, along with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) at their Lucas Heights facility. The generation of nuclear power would eliminate the need for coal or gas-fired generation and make a major contribution to the reduction of carbon into the atmosphere.