Letters

  • Basin plan is better than no plan

    Basin plan is better than no plan

    Scrapping the Murray-Darling Basin Plan could damage cultural values along Australia’s greatest river system and marginalise vuln­erable communities. Campaigns led by irrigators and the NSW National…

  • Corporate irrigators should take the cut

    BARNABY Joyce and the National Party have unleashed an assault on the Murray River, the environment and South Australia. It would be a terrible step…

  • We need to ensure there are no buybacks

    We need to ensure there are no buybacks

    OVER the past 12 months, the fish kills of Menindee have been pol­iticised and subject to significant  media attention.  In this time we have witnessed…

  • Violence figures need more explanation

    THE news that family-domestic violence rates are again higher than the state average needs further  explanation. The figures suggest that males are to blame for the…

  • Huge opportunities if science is accepted

    READERS of Letters to the Editor might believe that Neville Gardner and I never agree on much, however this is not always true, and on…

  • It could be too late

    I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with Robert McBride of Tolarno Station and his comments regarding the catastrophe that is the Murray-­Darling Basin Plan and the sooner the…

  • Real costs of water are much higher

    Real costs of water are much higher

    When I was a member of the Murray Darling Advisory Committee, catchment representatives from across the basin tried to give policy makers an understanding of…

  • Build the dams soon

    IN reply to Lindsay Leake (Sunraysia Daily, December 5), Lindsay and Dan Andrews seem to have the same strange ideas about dams.  How would we…

  • Community, politicians work together

    Community, politicians work together

    The co-operation over recent months between the community and politicians in seeking positive outcomes for the farming communities of Millewa and Carwarp suffering from crippling…

  • Falling flows to blame

    In response to Peter Whitfield and Neville Gardner (Sunraysia Daily,  December 4), the simple fact is that inflows into all rivers in southern Aust­ralia have…

  • Regional drownings up

    Data shows Victorians in regional areas are almost twice as likely to drown as people in Melbourne. Victoria’s drowning toll is the highest for 20…

  • No hope for changing carbon dioxide levels

    No hope for changing carbon dioxide levels

    IN reply to Jim Wilton (Sunaysia Daily, December 2), I’m only interested in our real planet earth and not some silly fantasy planet. The CSIRO…

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