Here's an idea to help save our money and ailing levee around Wagga.

Don't build a high-rise harness racing facility on the flood plain. This facility will be built higher than Wagga's levee bank and push about 100 acres of flood water onto Wagga's levee.

Simple mitigation, you don't need a conference, you need common sense.

Concerning the issue of not “standing” for the National Anthem and those people who oppose doing so, let’s not forget (from a flag point of view) is to who in the Aboriginal community set the example.

Didn’t Cathy Freeman “sew” together both flags then did a victory run after she won at the Olympics and the “world” cheered. Why??

Because she was making a statement not only just because she won but also because in her wisdom she knew “unity far outweighs division” and the world stood up and took notice. She stood up “proudly” for “her National Anthem”.

Many Aboriginal men also fought in wars alongside their white fellow countrymen to “save the nation”.

What has to be taken into consideration is that the Aboriginal people of today need to remember that the white people of today weren’t the ones who arrived here (in the beginning) just the offspring of those that did.

Therefore, to be continuously hating and wanting to punish today's white people for what is considered the “sins of their forefathers” seems grossly unjust, when we weigh it all up no one really owns any country whether they were there first or not.

The world belongs to its creator, we are just the caretakers and it is what we do with it whilst we are here that really counts.

Cathy knew this (and still does) and this is why she and those Aboriginal people like her have achieved.

Their positive attitude overrules the negative and wins the race in the long run. Life for all of us is too short to be running its journey “out to get everyone for whatever reason one way or another”.  

Far better to let sleeping dogs lie and move on, for holding grudges against anyone proves nothing except belligerence.

Bigger and better pastures as far as the eye can see need to be explored favourably.

At least we are all free (at least for the tie being) in comparison to what others in other nations are having to endure.

Let’s be grateful for what we have (small mercies) instead of complaining as to how badly off we believe we are where at times we are sitting pretty to what other fellow human beings have as their lot in life.

Christ said “forgive and forget” the only way the truth and the life is him.

Today is a sad day not only for the thousands of dogs who will now continue to suffer in this cruel and unjustifiable industry, but also for democracy.

The state government has acted on speculation about its polling numbers and pressure from individuals who gain financially from this abusive industry, and ignored the vast majority of NSW constituents who abhor the inherit brutality of greyhound racing.

The premier may think he is saving his political future, but they say fortune favours the brave and in this case, Mr Baird has shown he is anything but.