Letters
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Backlash builds against NDIS
THE proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) do not have the best interests of people with disabilities or their families at heart.…
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An honour shared with Mildura
The unexpected honour of receiving an Order of Australia medal in the current 2021 Queen’s Birthday listings has prompted me to offer my sincere thanks…
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Time to leave the waterbirds alone
Long-running aerial surveys have amply shown that waterbird numbers are plummeting. How low do you, Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh, want their numbers to go…
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Review of bus schedules needed
Glad to see someone raising the issue of a review of the Mildura bus services. A couple of years age I had eye surgery and…
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Vibrant regional centres feeling pain
Regional towns have suffered unnecessarily through the COVID lockdowns but to call Mildura remote is nonsense and part of the problem with city-centric minds. Having…
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Food producers need reliable water supply
FORGIVE my scepticism, but as a multi-generational food producer in southern NSW I have to question the motive behind recent CSIRO warnings about reduced Murray-Darling…
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Lockdowns taking toll on mental health
JOB losses, business closures and social isolation resulting from Labor’s fourth – and now extended – lockdown will worsen the problems in Victoria’s broken mental…
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Start listening to the scientists
Professor Mark Howden, a vice-chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has found through analysis of publicly available data that average river…
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Small price to pay
I AM constantly amazed at the vitriolic letters in the Sunraysia Daily which lambast the Victorian Government over its coronavirus responses. The majority of the…
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Trouble pitching tent through the years
The Sesame Street Circus is not the first circus to be caught up in a pandemic border closure. In June 1919, during the influenza pandemic,…
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Time for Walsh to stop distractions
Whether Peter Walsh was mischievously misleading our community or just ignorant with his comments about a hospital amalgamation can be debated. But while he was…
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Alarmist rhetoric not helping Victoria
RE letter from Jenny Gibbons, Mildura and District ALP president (Sunraysia Daily, June 7): Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh is not creating discontent by pedalling…
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