A political rant

I don't normally get political on this blog. But something I read in The Age in the past couple of days has set my blood boiling.
It concerns the State Government's decision to order public hospitals to stop admitting mums and babies with breastfeeding or settling problems.
This story highlights an alarming trend - government encourages people to have more babies + gloats about its baby boom - but fails to deliver on any kind of new services to support said new babies.
While family reporter at the Herald Sun, I wrote a story on the blowout of waiting lists for sleep schools - back then it took MONTHS for desperate, sleep-deprived parents to even get near a public sleep clinic in Melbourne. If that's not depressing enough, the recent breastfeeding help debacle is enough to make me want to storm parliament.
It's small things that can make a huge difference in the early stages of parenting. Just a couple of hours spent with a lactation consultant can lead to a "hallelujah" moment when what only hours ago was painful and impossible is now possible.
A week in a sleep school can change the entire livelihood of a family.
I don't want to appear to be whingeing, but it seems this government is struggling under the weight of a crush for services. And as a person who uses the metropolitan train system, I honestly do mean crush.