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God bless our nurses

Now having a very deep disdain for the opinions of many in our community, it was a shot in the arm to see the results of an honesty and ethics poll collected recently.

For in a society where a TV or sports star is worshipped as being the ideal Australian, the poll has shown that maybe there's a glimmer of hope for us yet.

For in the survey, nurses rated as being the most honest and ethical people in Australia. That doesn't include their being dedicated, selfless, professional and completely underpaid.

Ninety per cent of us said nurses were the bee's knees and the top spot was won by them for the eighth year in a row. Keeping in mind nurses were only included in the survey in 1994 - that's not a bad effort.

Other honest types in our society are chemists, doctors, teachers and dentists.

The news was not so good for sales people, however, who again have polled badly in the honesty and ethical stakes. Can't see why, all they want to do is take our money.

Last year's last-on-the-list car salesman have retained their bottom-feeding position and are enmeshed with other horrid types such as real estate agents, politicians and business executives as thepeople you don't want to associate with.

Now one thing did surprise me and that is that TV reporters, and boy do I use that description loosely, outpolled newspaper journalists in the honesty stakes. Must have been their pretty faux-tanned faces and bouffant hair - and that's just the chaps in the expensive suits!

Still, I've known some pretty scummy newspaper reporters - ones that make used-car salesmen look like saints. But that's for another time.

Gotta go, I've just seen Dolores sneak into the viagra cupboard - poor old Bert's in for it tonight. Better get the video!

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