Say it with tulips
9 August 2001
This weekend Nannup celebrates its Tulip Festival. And tulips from Nannup will be a feature of the Health and Education Issues Forum to be held in the courtyard at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery on Friday, 10 August from 12-1pm.
Education and health are shaping up as key issues in the Federal election to be held later this year, and this is an opportunity for people to have their say about the future of universities and health care in our community.
\"Why tulips?\" you may ask.
Tulips were once thought more precious than gold. Only the rich could afford them. And only the rich could afford education and health care.
\"Now\", says Ms Alison Bunting, Organiser, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers\' Union, \"education and health care are more readily available. However, if our education and health care resources are not properly funded, they may become once more only for the rich\".
Ms Bunting and Dr Carolyn Allport, National President, National Tertiary Education Union will speak at the Education and Health Issues Forum. Candidates in the forthcoming Federal election have also been invited to attend and respond to issues raised at the forum.
Dr Allport will talk about Edith Cowan University\'s important role in producing graduates who work in and for the region. \"The South West should not have to import its professionals from elsewhere\", she says. \"We need to ensure that the university has the resources it needs to maintain the high quality of education it currently provides\".
Members of the public are invited to \"say it with tulips\" at this important forum, and, if they so choose, to buy a pot of tulips.