Letters
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Webster’s petition a grab for votes
Further to my letter (Sunraysia Daily, October 11), I have had further doubts about the motives of our federal member, Anne Webster, in starting her…
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Time to give up our fossil fuel reliance
Being a past smoker I can see an analogy between smoking cigarettes and climate change. In the early days they both proceed in a gradual…
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Workforce shortages a growing dilemma
THE Health Minister needs to permit rapid testing for workers who are not vaccinated by the State Government’s mandated deadline to avoid looming workforce shortages.…
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Bringing to light white-cane user fears
IT has been revealed that more than 70 per cent of Australian white-cane users are put in danger by “everyday” objects. Today is International White…
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You are risking your patients’ lives
As a medical practitioner who is old enough to remember the scourge of poliomyelitis in the 1950s and the resultant desperate efforts to vaccinate everyone,…
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Irresponsibility leads to Victorians suffering
I was really surprised to read the Herald Sun headline ‘Coronavirus Crisis’ and then display a number of irresponsible people sitting close together and not…
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The power in our purchase
Last year, when Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged the World Health Organisation to investigate the cause of the COVID-19 virus outbreak in Wuhan, China, China…
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Hypocrisy in petition
IT appears to me that our local federal member Anne Webster suffers from one of the two following traits, selective memory or hypocrisy, or possibly…
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Be a role model
THE “no jab, no job” petition concerns me, as it gives legitimacy to anti-vaccination misinformation. I remember the then deputy prime minister, Tim Fischer, facing…
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No-mandate Anne
I HAVE been searching for Dr Anne Webster’s petition against mandatory vaccinations for children, introduced in 2016 by the national Liberal Coalition government, notably requiring…
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Ignore Webster’s anti-vax rhetoric
I AM horrified that National Party Federal Member for Mallee Anne Webster has bought into the anti-vaccination debate by writing to a number of constituents…
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A roadmap leading to where?
Victorians are looking for an iron-clad guarantee we’re on the road to reopen, rebuild and recover. Mixed messages and the Premier’s lack of trust in…