These innocent families, some with young children, have not done anything to deserve the resulting fear and disruption caused by the lowlifes who perpetrate these crimes.

Put yourself in the shoes of your victims. Do you realise the long-term effect you could have on the people you offend? Why don't you do what other decent people do and work for your money or manage your dole better!

And if you are not old enough for the dole, where do your irresponsible parents think you are when you are roaming the streets causing grief to other people?

I FIND it ludicrous that with so many television stations, the same programs are aired on nearly all the same networks channels.

Can we have at least more choice on different subjects on different channels. Thousands of different programs available but we have the same episode of the same show on three channels.

I’M ANNOYED but also amused that people are arguing in the rural media that the basin plan is not influencing or inflating the temporary water market. 

I’m seriously questioning where these people obtained their training in agricultural socio-economics? 

Surely they at least understand that removing up to 30 per cent of water resources from production will impact prices via the well understood concept of supply and demand?

What is even more annoying but highly amusing is that they are drawing inappropriate and irrelevant comparisons to the 2002 and 2006 irrigation seasons and attempting to argue that because prices got high then, the basin plan is not influencing it.

Are they really that disconnected? We all struggled through both those seasons. The current catchment conditions are not comparable to 2002 and even less to 2006.

I’m frankly quite disgusted that these people are misusing averaged precipitation and inflow modelling to defend something that is blatantly indefensible.

Perhaps these people would care to explain why in 2015 many basin farmers are about to harvest some exceptional, dry area winter cereal crops? That most certainly did not happen in 2002 or 2006.

Any dry area farmer can explain that it’s possible to grow bumper crops in below average rainfall years. They can also explain that very ordinary crops can result from above average rainfall years. 

Current implementation of the Water Act and the basin plan, along with state environmental watering policies, are very clearly interfering with and inflating the price of temporary water.

We all know that if you torture figures for long enough, they will admit to anything.

AS AN avid and regular listener to ABC local radio in the Riverina, I consider the proposed changes in 2016 to local news and radio programs to be ill-considered.

I understand budget requirements may be used as a reason to make changes but I am sure that by denying local listeners radio program content that is local, it will cause listeners to abandon ABC altogether.

The decision, if it does go ahead, is another blow to those people who live in regional areas. ABC management is to be condemned if it continues with these planned changes.