Edwy Frederick BUNT APM

older brother of Alex Robert BUNT RIP – November 2017 ( NSWPF # 7854 )

aka Ted BUNT

Late of ?

NSW Police Cadet # 503

New South Wales Police Force

Regd. # 5771

Rank: NSW Police Cadet – commenced 17 January 1945 ( aged 16 years, 5 months, 29 days )

Probationary Constable – appointed 19 July 1947 ( aged 19 years, 0 months, 0 days )

Sergeant 3rd Class – appointed 8 October 1963

Sergeant 2nd Class – appointed 23 May 1970

Sergeant 1st Class – appointed 1 April 1974

Inspector 3rd Class – appointed 30 September 1977

Senior Inspector – 1982?

Chief Superintendent – appointed ? March 1984

Assistant Commissioner ( General ) – appointed 12 December 1984

Stations: ?, Central – ‘ A ‘ District – 1 Division, District Commander – Parramatta ( 18 Division ),

Prosecutor ( – Senior Inspector – 1982 ), The Downing Centre Court, Region Commander – North West ( 1987 )

Friday 4 November 1988 – changed from the Roll of Barrister to the Roll of Solicitor

Service: From 17 January 1945 to 18 July 1988 = 43 years, 6 months, 1 days Service

Age at Retirement: 59 years, 11 months, 29 days

Years in Retirement: 28 years, 10 months, 9 days

Awards: National Medal – granted 19 November 1984 ( Chief Supt. )

Australian Police Medal ( APM ) – granted 9 June 1986 ( Assistant Commissioner )

Born: Thursday 19 July 1928

Died on: Saturday 27 May 2017 during the evening

Age: 88 years, 10 months, 8 days

Cause: Short illness of ?

Event location: ?

Event date: ?

Funeral date: Thursday 1 June 2017 @ 2pm

Funeral location: Magnolia Chapel, Macquarie Park Crematorium, Plassey Rd, Macquarie Pk

Buried at: Cremated

Memorial located at: ?

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BUNT,
Edwy (Ted) Frederick.
19.7.1928 – 27.5.2017

Beloved husband of Margaret (nee Ireland).

Dearest father of Frances, Amanda, Joanne, Edwy (Ted) and Alexis.

Loved father-in-law of David Curtis, Ian Templeton, Brian Keogh and Erkin Aytekin.

Adored Grandfather of Ellen, Huon, Robbie, Erica, Laura, Aidan, Declan, Liam, Kade and Lauren and

Great Grandfather of Zac, Cooper and Josephine.

Loving brother of Alex and loving cousin of Jacqueline Milledge ( P/Women # 0171 )

Cherished by many.

Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend TED’s service in the Magnolia Chapel, Macquarie Park Crematorium, Cnr Delhi and Plassey Roads, North Ryde, on Thursday 1st June 2017 at 2.00pm.

ALBERT & MEYER
AUSTRALIAN OWNED
Thornleigh 9484 3992

Published in The Sydney Morning Herald on May 29, 2017 – See more at: http://tributes.smh.com.au/obituaries/smh-au/obituary.aspx?n=edwy-frederick-bunt-ted&pid=185641701#sthash.tQXUT2BZ.dpuf

http://archive.nswbar.asn.au/docs/resources/publications/bn/BAR%20NEWS%201989%20-%20AUTUMN.PDF

Both Ted BUNT & Alex BUNT were cousins to Jacqueline Mary MILLEDGE, NSWPF – P/W 0171 who also became NSW State Coroner.

Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995),

Wednesday 26 September 1990, page 5

Minister ‘ interfering ‘ with NRMA

The president of the NRMA has criticised a federal minister for endorsing an ” action group ” against the present NRMA leadership.

The Minister for Land Transport, Bob Brown, has endorsed publicly the Motorists’ Action Group, headed by the NSW cricket captain, Geoff Lawson, and a former

TV journalist, Jane Singleton.

The NRMA president, Jim Millner, accused Mr Brown yesterday of using his position ” to interfere . . . in the election procedures of a private organisation “.

With 2 million NRMA members in NSW, the council election next month is the biggest poll in NSW after the state election.

Thirteen candidates are standing for the six council posts. Traditionally, existing councillors have been re-elected, but this year the six member Motorists’ Action Group is making a concerted bid.

Other members of the group include the Mayor of Bathurst, Ann Ashwood, and a retired assistant Police Commissioner, Ted Bunt. Former swimming champion Dawn Fraser is running on her own ticket.

An executive of the ACT branch said incumbent councillors tended to get re-elected because very few members voted.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122313250

NSW POLICE ANNUAL REPORT 1987 / 88

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjs_4O1mJXUAhVKvrwKHd0uC44QFggmMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.opengov.nsw.gov.au%2Fviewer%2F7ffd6b8432a0fd7c89ad619e823df83a.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFup4iA0M_tIk0KwmcTLRDnAMMNjQ&sig2=aEYOQvvYeLv7govyGh6SFQ

Ted BUNT also attended the Police Funeral for Constable 1st Class Wayne RIXON in January 1985.

George Douglas PRESTON

06/06/2017

George Douglas PRESTON

aka Doug

Late of Maitland

New South Wales Police Force

Academy Class 240

Regd. # 26220

Rank: Senior Constable – Retired

Stations: ?, Muswellbrook, Kurri Kurri, Maitland GD’s, Central Hunter – Retirement

Service: From ? ? ? to 9 January 2009 = 19 years Service

Awards: No find on It’s An Honour

Born: 4 September 1956

Died on: Sunday 28 May 2017

Age: 60

Cause: Cancer – Prostate

Event location: ?

Event date: Sunday 28 May 2017

Funeral date: Thursday 1 June 2017 @ 1pm

Funeral location: Beresfield Crematorium, 176 Anderson Dve, Beresfield

Buried at: Cremated

Wake: Beresfield Bowling Club

Memorial located at: ?

UNIMPRESSED: Bolwarra resident Doug Preston

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Doug lost his battle with Cancer. He was a great cop and a very decent bloke. He will be missed.

Resident questions council rate figures

SAM NORRIS
13 Nov 2013, 4 a.m.

Maitland City Council has been called out on the maths behind a rate increase worth millions.

A pamphlet outlining the extent of potential rate rises has landed in letter boxes across Maitland and Doug Preston, for one, has questioned the full impact.

“The figures are very rubbery and something stinks,” Mr Preston said.

The average urban residential rates notice, based on a $148,000 land valuation, would climb 8.94 per cent annually from $986.54 to $1796.32 – an 82 per cent cumulative increase. Not 62 per cent as council has published.

Council defended the difference as a matter of reporting methods.

“Council acknowledges there are different views as to how the percentage increases should be expressed,” council’s acting general manager Bernie Mortomore said in a statement to the Mercury.

“Council has been active in distributing as much information as possible on both the increase proposed and the services to be provided by council over the period.”

The pamphlet is part of council’s community consultation, which includes 10am and 6pm public meetings today at the town hall, on proposed rate increases.

The rate rise would affect business, farming and residential landholders, with successive increases over seven years starting in July 2014.

Mr Preston estimated the increase would likely hit ratepayers even harder when the Valuer-General reviewed property values in 2014 and 2017.

“Even if it’s a conservative 3 per cent it will add about $100 a year and the end result will be more like $2000,” he said.

The proposed rate increase is the product of surveys to gauge what services residents wanted and what they were prepared to pay as council faced a $92 million deficit within 10 years.

“I don’t agree with council’s argument that rates must increase,” Mr Preston said.

But council said it had worked hard to communicate the proposed increases clearly.

“Council has been active in distributing as much information as possible on both the increase proposed and the services to be provided by council over the period,” Mr Mortomore said

http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/1903959/resident-questions-council-rate-figures/

Patients mortgaging homes to pay for life-saving drugs

June 23, 2013 8:00am

PATIENTS in Eastern Europe and even poverty stricken Greece and Italy are getting access to lifesaving medicines ahead of people in Australia, who in some cases are being forced to remortgage their homes to afford the costly treatments.

As critical government subsidies are refused or delayed in Federal Cabinet, two pharmaceutical companies have dramatically decided they won’t reapply for a subsidy after being knocked back up to seven times.

Lowest number of drugs placed on PBS in 20 years

Their decision has left patients who need the life-extending melanoma treatment Zelboraf facing a $9,400 a month bill for treatment.

Meanwhile, the small number of people with the rare Pompe’s Disease which impairs muscle function and reduces life expectancy are expected to afford $400,000 a year for the treatment Myozyme.

And other crucial medicines which have been approved for subsidy by an independent expert government committee are months later still waiting for cabinet to approve the funding.

Former policeman Doug Preston risked death if he waited for Cabinet to approve subsidy for his $3,500 a month prostate cancer treatment Zytiga. He had to remortgage his house to find the money.

“If I hadn’t done that I would have got past the no return point, my back would have decayed, my legs would have crumbled, I would be bed bound and waiting for death,” he said, explaining that he has a new lease of life since he started the drug.

Zytiga was approved for subsidy by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee in March, July and November 2012 but the drug company was initially unhappy with the price it was being offered, delaying the subsidy approval.

A new anti-clotting medicine Pradxa was approved for subsidy two years ago and then again in March but 100,000 stroke patients who could benefit from it are still waiting for cabinet to fund it.

Under an agreement the government has with the medicines industry it has six months to approve a medicine if it is approved for subsidy and a price agreement is reached with the company.

The knock-backs and delays come as a study commissioned by pharmaceutical lobby group Medicines Australia found last month that the number of new medicines placed on the nation’s drug subsidy scheme was the lowest in 20 years in 2011-12.

Just 15 new medicines were added to the scheme that year, 40 per cent fewer than the 20-year average of 25 new drugs a year, the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies found.

Many Australians get free access to breakthrough new drugs through clinical trials but the number of new clinical trials approved in Australia is also down 30 per cent in the past six years.

Medicines Australia chief Brendan Shaw says patients waiting for cabinet to approve funding for their medicines are now worried the caretaker period where government ceases entering contracts during the election may further delay subsidies.

Medical Oncology Group of Australia chair Professor Gary Richardson says Australia’s drug approval system is out of date a needs to be reviewed.

“We are now falling behind Eastern European countries with the availability of medicines,” he said.

Drugs should be reimbursed earlier and monitored for five years after which their performance and price should be reassessed, he said.

Dr Shaw says the pharmaceutical industry wants all parties to agree after the election to a new framework for approving medicine subsidies that will speed up the process and provide certainty.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/patients-mortgaging-homes-to-pay-for-lifesaving-drugs/news-story/f1f074644177ff9ed614bce75650b177

John Franklin BIRT

06/06/2017

John Franklin BIRT

Late of Worrowing Hts