Anchored off the office of Bega MP Andrew Constance today were petitioners, proudly bearing 2860 signatures supporting a regional hospital in the Eurobodalla Shire.

​That’s the official tally, but Dr Michael Holland said more than 3000 people had signed, counting some contributions discovered too late to be submitted, informal and online votes.

“We found 100 in someone’s pigeon hole,” he said today.

We’d love to hear your views on the issue and where you think such a facility should be located. 

A family which knows too well the cost of poor resourcing for rural health is that of Addison Wilson-Mitchell.

The Moruya four-year-old cancer survivor is going strong again after a recent brush with pneumonia.

Her family would love you to get behind Rally for Recovery at Tomakin, which has raised $1.7 million for child cancer research.