Pool closures prompt concerns

I am writing to express my disbelief that the ADFA pool remains shut.

It seems illogical to me that although it is a requirement that all ADF members are able to swim, the facilities in which we swim are now unavailable to us to use.

Surely this is only a temporary measure? What if we ban civilians from our sports facilities?

Perhaps that will erase the problem? After all, civilians don’t have a work requirement to pass a fitness test, nor is passing a swim test a condition of employment.

Being forced to travel to HMAS Harman to use the pool there (which incidentally is outside and unheated) or pay to use a public pool is really unacceptable and a complete waste of time and money when there is a perfectly good pool at ADFA.

I know that public liability issues are affecting people everywhere, not just the ADFA pool.

However, I believe the Harman pool has reopened again only because they now have a permanent lifeguard.

Is the pool at ADFA just going to sit there now and get mouldy just because we don’t have a lifeguard? If this is all it will take to get the ADFA pool opened again, why don’t we get one too?

If money is the issue, why don’t we utilise the cadets with lifeguard training or bronze medallions to be rostered in to a duty watch system keeping duties at the pool.

Swimming is a great, low impact way to get fit and good for people of all ages.

The continued closure of the ADFA pool is a huge waste of a great training facility.

Is this a problem affecting other Defence establishments across Australia?

Name and address withheld

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Thumbs up for healthy mums

Congratulations Navy News on the progressive style of your paper, in particular your Health and Fitness page in the most recent edition (March 11).

It is good to see the Navy move with the times and accept and promote pregnancy as a natural part of life.

It was refreshing to see a picture of healthy pregnant woman as well as an infomative article about staying fit and well whilst pregnant.

Well done Navy News.

Name and address withheld

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