Save the Rescue Helicopter

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The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service has been operating in NSW since 1973 and has saved more than 34,000 lives during this time. There is no cost obligation for anyone who is rescued by these helicopters.

Next year, 2007, marks 34 years of the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopters operating in NSW and also marks the predicted end of the service in the Sydney and Central West areas. The NSW Government is believed to be giving the NSW Ambulance Service contract allowing the helicopter service to operate and save lives in NSW to the new and foreign owned CHC Helicopter Service of Canada.

We are proud of the fantastic and heroic work of the crewpersons, paramedics, pilots and doctors of the helicopter service and believe that the Ambulance Service Contract needs to stay with the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service and not be given to a foreign operator. The helicopter service is community based and relies on community support to ensure that it continues to save lives; this support will no longer continue if the service turned private.

This contract needs to remain with the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Service, and the new helicopters that the government has promised to deliver to the new tender, must be given to the current services. If the government is prepared to pay more money for the Rescue Helicopter services in NSW, then they should give it to Life Saver to enhance the brilliant service they have been providing for almost 35 years.

SAVE THE WESTPAC LIFE SAVER RESCUE HELICOPTER SERVICE.

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  • Jess Thompson
  • Ryan Guthrie
    • Comments
    • Westpac Life Saver has been a community service for over 34 years, and saved more than 20,000 lives - they have to stay!
  • Rachael O'Regan
  • Zoe Iverach
  • David Cole
  • Adam Thompson
  • STEVE WEBB
    • Comments
    • WHAT A JOKE TO LOSE WESTPAC AND CAREFLIGHT HAVE THE GOVT SEEN HOW MUCH THE CHC CONTRACT IN WA IS COSTING. WESTPAC AND CAREFLIGHT MUST REMAIN TO SERVE THE NSW PEOPLE AND CONTINUE TO SAVE COUNTLESS LIVES
  • Amanda Donohoe
    • Comments
    • Help us so we can help save you!
  • danny donohoe
    • Comments
    • Australian ICON not to go Overseas
  • Roslyn Diamond
    • Comments
    • Shame on you NSW Labor Government
  • Katherine Brennan
  • Mark Dare
  • Matthew Sisley
  • Sharon Sisley
  • Pascal Gaillourdet
  • jonathan ray
    • Comments
    • Good call , About time
  • Clive Ross
  • William Jasinski
  • Richard Diamond
    • Comments
    • Shame, NSW government, Shame...
  • Alex_kaminski
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    • В
  • Phillip Cameron
  • Roslyn Davighi
    • Comments
    • Saving lives is Governments responsibility
  • Paul Blundell
  • gaelyn watson
    • Comments
    • why try to get rid of a service that has provided well for the community in the past and is dedicated to the future!!!!!!
  • Lyn Donovan
  • Lynne Lascelles
  • Jacki King
  • Anthony Gray
    • Comments
    • Shame on the Government Leave CareFlight and Lifesaver where they are
  • Kylar Loussikian
  • linda pisani
  • Ralph Pisani
    • Comments
    • This service is provided by professional people who care a great deal about lives. It seems pointless to erase it.
  • Alan Cohen
    • Comments
    • Westpac Bank and the supporters of Westpac Rescue have built up this service from scratch even when the Govt of the day didn't support the service. It was paid for by the supporters and the sponsors. Th egovt should support the founders of the service or at least negotiate with Westpac for a suitable outcome or give the service a number of years to meet the new tender costs.
  • R Lisle
    • Comments
    • We need to save our Icons!!
  • Andrew Hawkins
    • Comments
    • How can the NSW Government take away an organisation that does so much for people in need? It is sickening...
  • Anne Johnston
    • Comments
    • Please let's not sell another organisation, run by Australians, to a foreign conglomerate.
  • Tom Davey
    • Comments
    • Of course it is the damn Labor government who does this...this is one mistake too many!!! Vote in the Coalition (the Liberals and the Nationals) at the next state election on 24 March 2007!!!
  • Virginia Burnham
  • Frank Zoumboulis
  • Shavon Fincher
  • Gai Roper
    • Comments
    • Don't sacrifice community pride and ownership to the god of more money . . . There is a much longer term cost to the citizens of this state.
  • Melanie McConville
  • Mrs S Oslear
    • Comments
    • outrageous if they go ahead with their plans
  • Lisa Cimarosti
  • craig bennett
    • Comments
    • Yes to saving NSW people's lives. No to foreign ownership of the responsibility for saving NSW people's lives!
  • James Budd
  • Kelly Gardner
  • Amy Ellem
    • Comments
    • what a disgrace
  • Jason Ellem
  • Mark Chapman
  • Hollie Melrose