Letters

I DON’T mind Ramsay Health Care making a profit running Mildura Hospital, if only they provided safe, effective and quality care across every speciality. The…

I AM the founder and spokesperson for the 350 Mallee Climate Action group. I would like to respond to Mark of Irymple’s comment last Friday.…

The apparent slip in bi-partisan support for the basin plan should cause concern to those interested in achieving environmental reform. The danger to the plan…

The cotton industry is a massive water user and basically exports water in cotton.  The cotton industry is a well geared and oiled machine when…

There are some strong themes emerging from the two recent royal commissions.  Before the Banking Royal Commission released last week, and the South Australian Royal…

IN the 1950s, as a 15-year-old, I joined the staff of a bank in Mildura with an Intermediate certificate in my pocket. In the 1980s,…

Who is exaggerating for political expediency, Mallee Nationals candidate Anne Webster?  Doesn’t Barnaby Joyce do this when talking about and acting on the Murry-Darling Basin…

I WAS hoping that The Nationals would appoint a candidate whose care and thinking about this electorate would have progressed from the views of our…

Deputy PM Michael McCormack visited Menindee and gave his views on the Darling River situation.  Straightaway he was very defensive of the big rich cotton…

Politicians, are saying, it’s the drought, not the cotton growers who have caused the Darling River’s present environmental crisis. Before we fall for this, let’s…

The Murray Darling Basin Plan has been so far diverted from its original intent that it is in breach of the Water Act 2007.  The…