Emily Shaw is spot on with her letter on October 7 with the opening line “America the Brave? More like a slave….to the National Rifle Association and gun enthusiasts.”
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And now the American authorities go all out to the nth degree to find out what the murderer’s motives were.
It makes no difference whatsoever if they get answers to their questions because it will do absolutely nothing to stop the next mass murderer from doing the same or even worse in time to come - unless the American voters bend the knee and legally force gun control.
But that’s not likely because for many Americans the “god of gun rights” is much too revered.
Paul Bosman
Wagga
By-election a free kick
The truth is the door to Government will be closed until the Premier realises that the Coalition are only in Government because of the support they get from country seats.
The NSW Government has no vision for growth of the Murray electorate and the Murray By-Election presents a “free kick” for Murray electors to send them a message that they will no longer be treated as 2nd Class citizens. The Coalition promised less bureaucracy and red tape but they propose more bureaucracy. Murray has received almost nothing in infrastructure spending while tens of billions are being spent on roads, rail, hospitals and sports stadiums in Sydney.
While it is hard for a lifelong Coalition supporter to say this, the NSW Government does not deserve the support of Murray voters. The voters of Murray are resilient and hesitant to complain but now is the time to send a message to the NSW Government to treat us fairly or we will not support you. Murray voters have a free kick because they can vote against the Government at the By-Election but support them in two years time at the next General Election. When Orange registered a protest vote by voting in Shooters Fishers Farmers Party they were showered with infrastructure spending and attention – what have we got to lose?
Murray voters have a “free kick” to protest at the By-Election without any risk the Government will be replaced by Labor.
Bob Wheeldon
System is crook
An authority, independent of the financial interests of the medical colleges and universities, must be set up to organise proper training and set fair and transparent examinations for all doctors.
The specialist colleges are extorting and blackmailing trainees and doctors. They impose dictatorship but provide virtually no training or service to trainees or members.
Consultants are presently able to bully young doctors or wreck their careers without any fear of accountability.
The post-graduate examination system is purely designed to maintain scarcity of specialists and exclude newcomers. There is no defined syllabus for post-graduate exams nor do candidates have their papers returned to them. The exam papers are kept secret so that a candidate cannot see where they failed and so that they cannot challenge the fairness of the marking.
There is no excuse for any specialist training program to exceed three years. Trainee surgeons now have 10 years of their lives wasted in unnecessary training time filled with academic garbage.