Barking up wrong tree
WE TAXPAYERS in Wagga have just had the reward of having a nicely printed colour brochure from our local state member, Daryl Maguire, delivered to us.
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In the brochure, he rants about how there will be terribly large penalties if we are unkind to racing dogs.
It is nearly enough to bring a tear to a glass eye!
His pathetic rant reminds me of some petulant child who has been reprimanded for being naughty and who is looking for revenge of some sort.
What a disgrace.
If he was half as good as he would claim to be, he would acknowledge that his government reacted stupidly to a very biased report into greyhound racing and now regrets their over-reaction to the report.
But there’s no humility from our local member.
I can’t wait for our chance to show him how we feel when the next election comes around.
And then the government compounded the public reaction with the fiasco of the forced council amalgamations.
Hadn’t they heard what happened in Queensland when Premier Peter Beattie did the same thing?
What I cannot understand is how out of touch our local member can be, or is he just a puppet to the Sydney mob?
Des Goonan
Wagga
Give the gift of hope
THE hustle and bustle of Christmas is approaching.
With all the busyness of organising a massive feast and spending too much money on presents, it is easy to lose sight of what is important on this day.
Getting to experience a life of good quality and positive relationships is usually the most important consideration in most people’s lives.
Yet for half of the world’s people, Christmas Day will be filled with hunger, struggle and misery.
With three billion people around the world still living in extreme poverty on less than $2.50 a day and children accounting for half of the world’s poor, it would be great if we in Australia re-evaluated our priorities this Christmas.
Let’s re-evaluate whether making a $244 million cut from AusAid earlier this year was the right thing to do.
Let’s re-commit ourselves to the UN Millennial Declaration.
Let’s contribute our fair share towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goal 1 – eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
Elisha McMurray
Wagga
Get priorities straight
PLEASE Wagga councillors, know what the priorities are for Wagga in the allocation of funds.
There are many essential needs and there are desirable but not essential needs.
It’s wrong in principle to set aside 1 per cent of ratepayers’ money for public art.
These projects are not essential, just desirable.
It is exactly as it is in private life: you first pay your bills for essentials and if there is any money to spare, you may spend it on a piece of art or on eating out.
However, some of the so-called art is absolutely not art but at best it could be called a hobby: eg the “art” on the Tarcutta Street roundabout.
To call bent pieces of steel welded together art is an insult to genuine art and to genuine artists.
Any hobbyist welder could make it, and therefore to spend tens of thousands of dollars of ratepayers’ money on such is a gross waste of money.
Please don’t be brainwashed into naively accepting an unsightly hobby product as art