Monday, September 16, 2019

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Focusing on the man, keeps the man honest

I would like to thank Mayor Simon Clemence for his very detailed response to my letter in the Sunraysia Daily (September 10) titled “Council wrong to back climate change”. I appreciate the points made in the response regarding the relationship...

How much support is there for climate change

One final comment on the Climate Change Rally: Maybe the reason that organisers and supporters won’t entertain an after hours or weekend march is that they know it wouldn’t be as well supported. Australians will take any opportunity to take...

Anne Webster, will you make an appearance?

Anne Webster, if a commodity is scare, and here is a fact, water is scarce and valuable (and is now treated as a commodity) it will obviously cost more. Water is simply not there due to lack of rigorous accounting, theft, political interference by...

Dementia sufferers need to be included

During Dementia Action Week, this week, Dementia Australia is challenging Australians to think differently about dementia by asking ‘Dementia doesn’t discriminate. Do you?’. We are calling on our communities to consider how discrimination...

Climate change reality hits water

I’m replying to Victorian Opposition spokeswoman for Water Steph Ryan’s letter “Urgent action needed on water market prices” (SD 11/9/2019). In 1997, I was a member of the Victorian Farmers Federation’s Water Council, and I was one of the...

Help young people take action on climate

Re “Don’t drag kids out of school for ideology” Glenn Milne (SD 11/9/). Glenn I have openly agreed with you on occasions, on this occasion I don’t. Also I have no involvement with the organising of the climate rally, after all it is...

Regional Victorians deserve on par care

There are obvious and well-understood reasons why rural Australians often receive poorer health care than those in the cities: a shortage of health professionals, longer waiting times, a lack of health infrastructure and the tyranny of distance...

Opposition misleading public on water market

Each year in Victoria we produce a water register report which shows clearly that the overwhelming number of trades in Victoria are between farmers. The Victorian Opposition spokeswoman for Water Steph Ryan quoted from this report in her Letter to...

Parents should decide what their child does

I would love to reply to Glenn Milne’s “holier than thou” lecture, oops sorry letter in Monday’s Sunraysia Daily aimed at Maria Riedl. What I, and I reckon a lot of other people would agree along with Maria Reidl is this: If children have...

Climate policy is an issue for local politics

Ian Felton (Council wrong to back climate change, Sunraysia Daily, September 10) appears not to understand the role of council. He bemoans “it appears to have become a trend for councils around Australia to become involved in national and global...

Targeted mental health messaging needed

With all the efforts from public and community organisations, why are males figure so high in suicide statistics. Between 75-80 per cent of Australians who committ suicide are males. Maybe the prevention message needs to be more gender focused...

Drug use penalties must apply to all

The accountability around drug use must not be just confined to those on welfare. Drug users on welfare are easy obvious targets for politicians and they need a hand up and a hand out of the welfare cycle they live in and it is all they know and...

Urgent action needed on water market prices

Media reports again highlight the serious concerns of irrigators who are going broke because they can’t compete with speculators and investors who are sending water prices skyrocketing. A transparent trading platform would prevent anti-competitive...

Don’t drag kids out of school for ideology

Lindsay Leake and Maria Reidl continue to use their own deductions as to my beliefs to combat my disagreeing with taking students out of school classes to fight their ideology. Lindsay, organise the march after school hours or on the weekend, our...

Local politics deals with our concerns

I wish to respond to Ian Felton’s LTE “Council wrong to back climate minority” (Sunraysia Daily, September 10): Mr Felton says: “It’s a dark path we tread when councillors use their position as pseudo-politicians to the detriment of all...

Council wrong to back climate minority

I FIND the article “Council backs climate strike” (SD, August 30) to be deeply disturbing. Mildura Council will support a global climate strike in Mildura next month, despite it potentially taking students away from school. Using their position...

Kids have courage to challenge Milne

Re Cr Glenn Milne’s views (SD, September 9) in “Students’ climate rally is a day of class wasted”. Cr Milne quotes the high absentee rate among Sunraysia school children. In the texts to the editor, there is an appeal for relief from the...

SFNL and No.2 Oval fail juniors, families

I’m writing my concern, disappointment and disgust at the facilities and amenities provided to junior players, families and supporters of teams playing in the preliminary finals at No. 2 Oval on the weekend. There were four teams playing...