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Prescription prices still a burden - Blacktown Sun
A resident, 66, who declined to be named, said he provided a prescription for Pariet Tab 20mg x 30 tablets (for reflux), formerly $30.95, and Karvea 150mg x 30 (high blood pressure) priced at $18.50, to two pharmacies. The first pharmacist at Quakers ...
Private health insurance means test looked at kindly - Blacktown Sun
A resident, who declined to be named, said he was earning less than $80000 a year and his wife did not work because they had two young children. He said was it was not fair for those earning more than $80000 to expect battlers like him to subsidise ...
Quakers Hill extortionist threatened children with AIDS, rape, kidnap - Blacktown Sun
''Our family has been through absolute hell,'' the mother, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Sun. ''A lot of people have been hurt and we feel we have been psychologically trashed.'' The mother of three said she felt justice had been done by the ...
Compensation cuts anger Blacktown cops - Blacktown Sun
A Blacktown officer who declined to be named said police were willing to negotiate a new compensation deal but had been shut out by the government. ''We realise that it may need to change but ... for them to say you've only got six months to get over ...
Police may respond only to emergencies after compensation cut - Blacktown Sun
A Blacktown officer who declined to be named said police were willing to negotiate a new compensation deal but had been shutout by the government. ''We realise that it may need to change but . . . for them to say you've only got six months to get over ...
Resident warns of rat attack - Blacktown Sun
This call was made by a resident (who declined to be named) who destroyed his tomato garden to deprive the rats of food. The man who caught four rats with traps over three days found droppings in the garden and suspected rat urine on his son's football ...
Residents sick of thugs in their reserve at Glenwood - Blacktown Sun
The woman, on maternity leave and home during the day with her two children, declined to be named because of the repeated harassment. "I had a week of intimidation from the riff-raff knocking on my door, throwing rocks at the house and following my car ...
Hopes rise for disability service delivery - Blacktown Sun
The staff member (who declined to be named) agreed with parent Sue O'Reilly who went to Britain as "disability exile" 15 years ago to give her severely disabled son, Shane, a chance at a better life. Mrs O'Reilly said Australia was far behind Britain ...
Heated reaction to means-testing of health-fund members - Blacktown Sun
A Blacktown private-health-fund member, who declined to be named and be drawn into the dispute, said he would decide whether to quit after studying all available facts. The association has released results of its 2000-household phone survey that found ...
Bus 'failure' spurs angst - Blacktown Sun
Last week a mother (who declined to be named) from The Ponds said she had to drive her children to separate schools in Quakers Hill because the shortest bus ...
Couple try again with plan to demolish and rebuild home they bought for $32m - Blacktown Sun
One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said ''they have paid a staggering amount of money to knock over a very nice house''. The house was built in 1908, ...