Thursday, November 14, 2019

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Thoughts and prayers just not enough

Hasn’t our Prime Minister learnt a lot from his visit to Trump’s America? Like, how to handle the inconvenient suggestion that the “catastrophic” and “unprecedented” bushfires all over the country might have something to do with climate...

Dump The Nats from water roles

NSW National Party ministers should be removed from having any role in water management due to their continued mismanagement of the Murray-Darling Basin and the water minister’s sacking of the NSW drought co-ordinator without the knowledge of the...

Just look at the data, Lindsay

In reply to Lindsay Leake. Lindsay, I’m very happy to compare the real planet Earth with the silly fantasy planet of climate change believers using real data and evidence. Let’s look at the world in 1920 compared to 2019 or the past 100 years...

Workplace mental health injuries rise

Mental health is the growing issue facing our workforce. It’s important for us to talk about mental health issues and psychological injuries in Victoria, which appear to be on the rise. As a workers’ compensation lawyer, I see workers across...

Vocational learning set for review

The Andrews Labor Government will review the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) and Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Victorian schools to ensure all students can choose a path through senior secondary school that offers...

Time to remember forgotten heroes

Today, we mark, or commemorate, the end of World War I (1914-18) with Remembrance Day, originally Armistice Day. At 11am on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent. More than 60,000 Australian servicemen and women lost their lives during this...

The growing challenge of climate change

Re: Saturday’s Sunraysia Daily: Illegal workers, drought, modern slavery, more dust, Millewa crisis, were all words used in headlines of articles. I attended the ACCC water markets inquiry in Mildura on Thursday and the Building Climate Resilience...

Have a say on new drought fund

PEOPLE living, working and farming in rural NSW can provide input on the Coalition Government’s $3.9 billion Future Drought Fund. From July 1, 2020, the fund will make $100 million available each year to support initiatives that strengthen the...

Bush aged care needs more support

NEW workforce and funding supports are desperately needed to meet growing demand for safe and quality aged care in the bush. Significant additional government funding is needed to ensure rural aged-care services remain of high quality and can meet...

Regions get a raw deal from government

THE Andrews Government has confirmed it doesn’t care about regional Victorians. If it had a policy of ruining their lives, I would congratulate the government on a marvellous job. The government won’t let farmers use water in a time of...

We can and should lead on emissions

RE Neville Gardner’s letter “How can Australia make a difference?” (Sunraysia Daily, November 5): we live on an insignificant planet rotating around an insignificant star in an insignificant solar system floating in the vast void of space...

A toast to our big trade opportunity

MINISTER for Trade Simon Birmingham has announced 15 of the 16 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement parties have committed to finalise minor outstanding matters within months and expect to sign the agreement by 2020. In...

Sports careers must be taken seriously

MORE people are employed as sportspeople in Australia than mining engineers, surgeons, optometrists or barristers – so why aren’t students’ aspirations for a sporting career treated more seriously? Sports participation and elite sporting...

Time to support Veteran Card

THOUSANDS of offers are now available to Veteran Card holders in Mallee from businesses across Australia as part of the Australian Defence Veterans’ Covenant that passed Parliament recently. The Veteran Card is providing the opportunity for...

Ending water control would be irrational

I TOTALLY oppose Emilie Dye’s call to rip up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan (Sunraysia Daily, November 4). Does the plan need reviewing? It most certainly does, that is why I favour a royal commission into the whole Murray-Darling Basin, if not...

How can Australia make a difference?

CAN Lindsay Leake tell us what he means by climate change? I presume he means a change impacted by our use of fossil fuels? I also think the climate changes and has done so for millions of years and over the past 124 years we know there has been an...

Clear benefits of train

Re: Cr Glenn Milne, Rail Freight Alliance Chairman wrote in Sunraysia Daily on October 28: You’ve got one train to deal with and it’s more efficient, better for the environment and there’s less of a carbon footprint”. Why then, Cr Milne, do...

Points on Cupper’s position on water

Re: “Ali’s position on water” (Sunraysia Daily, November 2): I welcome Ali Cupper’s position on water as a serious attempt to take a logical and serious position on the current water situation that this district now finds itself. However, I...