By Jason Morrison

I took these photos of posters on the wall at Sydney's Hornsby Hospital on Saturday morning when we had to take our little boy to the Emergency Ward in the early hours.

What kind of a country have we become when we have to run a campaign like this?

Charlie is fine now and only because of the brilliant work from the nursing and medical staff at the Hospital. The nurses and Ambos were a credit to their profession - absolutely lovely people.

We are blessed in this country to have such fine medical facilities and ambulance officers who'll go towards danger when human instict is to go the other way.

But here we are in an era when we need security guards wandering the emergency wards - just in case. Staff at the triage desk now sit behind bank-like security glass for their protection. 150 paramedics were bashed on duty last year in NSW and already this year, 50 have suffered the same fate.

I can't get my head around why anyone would react badly to someone helping them. But, sadly, there's nothing new about this. It's been 'the way' for some years now.

Australia is changing in ways before our eyes that will never be for the better.