5/09/2008 | I’M damned if I know... I’ve insulted, threatened, cajoled, yelled and screamed throughout my life about the hardship of single pensioners and all you get is someone saying they need $30 a week rise. They need $100. I’ve talked to people, I’ve talked to pensioners and the only answer I get is “What can I do?”
5/09/2008 | IT was noted in an interview, and later in the Sydney Morning Herald (Tuesday, August 26), that the gold medallists travelled first class. Other medallists were in business class, and the rest second class. It was good to note Mr Rudd congratulated all athletes on their return home.
5/09/2008 | I AM writing to register my concerns over the direction the current debate on the teaching profession is headed.
Teachers are at the frontline in the fight against many of the social ills that are affecting our society and I find it very troubling that they are often made a scapegoat.
5/09/2008 | THE fact companies such as BHP are multinational corporations with a shareholding consisting mainly of citizens of Great Britain and South Africa and other people alien to Australia is not important in the context of the Liverpool Plains, but it sure explains just how much authority the Federal Parliament has when it comes to protecting the citizens of Australia.
4/09/2008 | IT’S time to start placing some values back into our society and this surely begins with electing leaders who will speak about values in their dealings with the community.
At a time of global food shortages and starvation and poverty in too many parts of our world isn’t it time we started addressing these and many other related issues as part of our political discourse, our collective dialogue.
4/09/2008 | CHARITY begins at home (August 29, The Leader). Wrong. Let me tell you how charitable our politicians and leaders of society are.
Many years ago I was at a welcoming reception for these VIPs from a country that treated the people, well, you can guess how they were treated. I wasn’t there for any particular reason as I cannot handle their crap, never could.
4/09/2008 | THE high temples are looking shaky. Employers who embraced WorkChoices for what they thought would be larger financial gains, are they any better than employers who stayed in the old and tested centralised wage system?
3/09/2008 | I WISH to convey my strident opposition to Iemma Labor’s electricity privatisation plans. There is no benefit to the people of rural NSW and who doesn’t remember the farce of Carr Labor’s take-over of our county councils in 1995? Where are those community assets now?
3/09/2008 | AS one of the organisers of the two most prestigious bush poetry competitions in Australia, the Country Energy Tamworth Bush Poetry Competition for performers and the Blackened Billy Verse Competition for written works, I am aware that there are many young people who are interested in writing bush verse.
3/09/2008 | MY mum borrowed my car the other day so she could drive my son around in his own car seat.
While parked outside the hairdressers on Carthage St some heartless, uncharitable person stole the red nose magnet off my car and left a note exclaiming the street is not a car park.
3/09/2008 | IT is a fact that there is only X amount of water in the world, and that amount of water is decreasing because of natural increases.
All animals (including that human type) are mainly water, so as the population of all these animals increases, more and more water is being tied up in life. More and more vegetation is required to sustain that life, and it takes more and more water to do just that.
2/09/2008 | NO one would argue that without the father and the mother, the family does not exist in the first instance. Fathers are fundamental to the family unit. Therefore fatherhood is one of the cornerstones of a civilised society.
2/09/2008 | LITTLE you know (G.R. Hughes NDL August 28, 2008), the Constitution of Australia was breached way back around the 1950s by some shady (upper crust) characters and has slowly been turned into the Constipation of Australia.
2/09/2008 | THE 1988 Constitutional Referendum’s four proposals were defeated soundly in every State of the
Commonwealth.
This resounding defeat included the proposal as follows: “A Proposed law: To alter the Constitution to recognise Local Government. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
2/09/2008 | MAY I congratulate the Tamworth Regional Council and its citizens on the outstanding Tamworth Young Driver’s Expo held at the TRECC last week, which I had the pleasure of attending.
2/09/2008 | WE believe that in NSW we have enough coal to supply the world for about 100 years. Surely this is tiny and insignificant to the 5 billion years we will have via the sun, the wind and the waves. Not only is coal power generation of electricity wasteful and inefficient, it is a large source of pollution and at around $275 a tonne for good quality steaming coal no longer cheap.
1/09/2008 | OPPONENTS of genetically modified (GM) crops, including multinational Greenpeace, are busily circulating petitions seeking “full” GM labelling. However, several points need to be made.
Australia already has a GM labelling system, implemented in 2001. Health ministers were clear at the time that this was to facilitate choice.
1/09/2008 | I ENJOYED Gary Verri’s letter (NDL, August 27). Climate change is a reality. The Northern Hemisphere will be hardest hit as their food production will decrease as temperatures drop. Australia will be a living paradise in comparison. Al Goreans take note! A very good site to surf is www.iceagenow.com or “Not fire but ice will kill us?”
1/09/2008 | TV coverage of the Beijing Olympics has produced superb programming of the events and interesting interviews with athletes etc, but the interviews with various Australian coaches raised doubts in my mind about their ability, in view of their age, and not particularly good results by our males. Strangely enough, our ladies did very well indeed.
1/09/2008 | FURTHER to G R Hughes’ suggestion of a nickname for Mr Rudd, how about this one: “Mr Rudderless”.