Like Allan Gibson (
Traveller Letters, June 26), I have an International Certificate of Vaccination which I have had since 1995. I use this yellow booklet to record all my vaccinations. Although we rarely need vaccinations for travel any more, I record all tetanus and influenza vaccinations each year. I recently had my COVID jab and the nurse was happy to record it in the book. We should all have one.
Barbara Perugini, Kew, VIC
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I did not know whether to laugh or cry as I read your story (“Intensive support: Budget to offer to retrain Australians in new skills”, May 11). Haven’t we heard this before? How is this ‘you beaut’ training or retraining going to happen? More dodgy, rip-off private so-called training colleges that have a history of defrauding taxpayers of eye-watering amounts of money?
We did have a wonderfully comprehensive national TAFE system with specialised permanent teachers. Then the system was constantly restructured and dismantled until it became a shadow of its former self, depending on casual and part-time teachers who work in unpredictable, unreliable employment. All in the name of privatisation.