Tag: letters
Climate change action would help farmers
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Our federal member may well encourage all levels of government to support our drought affect farming families, but that would be like putting a Band-Aid on a ruptured artery.
Assertions aren’t evidence
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Henry Scholtes' letter joins a long list of people who assert something is true, untroubled by the need for evidence to support his assertion.
Gender based pay gap is a ‘myth’
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The notion put forward by some that there is a pay differential based on gender is a furphy and absolute nonsense.
Changes in greyhound muzzle laws welcome
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: For the first time, in 135 years, greyhounds in the state of Victoria do not have to wear muzzles.
Claims on gender equality are incorrect
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The assertions that “gender equality is the everyday experience of women all over the country" and “gender equality has been a reality in Australia for some time now” are not supported by the facts.
Is gender equality already a reality?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Some government and government-funded activists along with the naive, used our school children as political pawns while indoctrinating them with a political ideology.
Nesting peafowl should beprotected
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Peafowl are now nesting in the Sale Botanic Gardens and need their enclosure.
Lakes fishery is ‘at the point of collapse’
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: I am disappointed to learn that the LNP will only offer a voluntary buyback of the final 10 Gippsland Lakes commercial fishing licences.
Roundabout is plonked in the wrong spot
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: There seems to be only negative outcomes from plonking a roundabout where VicRoads has in Stratford.
Election fear mongering over fracking?
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: I note a trailer billboard around town with a sign reading ‘No fracking, vote Labor’.
Deer hysteria is ‘largely unwarranted’
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Gippslanders in recent months have been deluged with reports of the “feral deer menace” and the apocalypse that will result from the ongoing “explosion” in deer numbers.
Barrier ‘obstructions’ too close to roads
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: VicRoads should be shamed for placing obstructions so close to the road.
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