Letters
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LETTER: Innovation on farms the way forward in NSW
THE NSW Government has delivered a budget for regional and rural communities, in challenging times due to drought conditions across most of the state.The NSW…
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LETTER: Value locked in homes of age pensioners
The tax cuts will please many and hopefully create more spending and jobs. The age pension is a massive burden on taxpayers, the burden will…
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LETTER: Water Bill will kill Darling River
The NSW Government has watered down its Water Management Amendment Bill 2018 to create loopholes to benefit large irrigators, meaning the full recommendations of the…
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LETTER: Conservative parties are too few
AUSTRALIA’S Veterans Affairs Minister Darren Chester wants his party, The Nationals, to become more diverse – with “more contemporary social attitudes” on issues like same-sex marriage.Does…
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LETTER: Hospital advocates had their chance
Regarding the article subheaded “The price a private company puts on our public’s health” (SD, June 9), certain people who featured in it have come…
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LETTER: Concern for society confused as racism
AFTER reading your article on a man witnessing a scene on “stereotypical views” on migrants outside a local cafe I thought I might write what…
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LETTER: Show the real Australia to attract global tourism
The use of Crocodile Dundee style ads to promote Australia is long overdue. The real Australia and real Australians are our best asset. The featuring of our…
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LETTER: More hope than practice in irrigation plan
REGARDING the $3 million to expand Sunraysia’s irrigation district (SD, June 14), I find it extraordinary the Federal Government is contemplating such a scheme considering…
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LETTER: Funding cuts would devastate universities
REGIONAL and rural participation and attainment in higher education is significantly lower than in metropolitan centres. This matters because we need a highly-skilled workforce to…
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LETTER: Victoria’s rail revival on fast track to failure
Rail Revival Alliance Victoria (RRAV) has been trying to get the message to the politicians and bureaucrats for over 18 months that the way that…
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LETTER: Base hospital questions need to be answered
So, the Mildura Base Hospital (MBH) has an approximate profit target of $1.2 million per year for Ramsay Health Care, yet it needed to accept…
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LETTER: Murray Basin Rail Project put on hold
A COUPLE of weeks back, Daniel Andrews quietly dumped his “Getting Things Done” slogan from Labor’s government press releases.Around the same time, sheepish department officers…
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