This year, with the change in rubbish collection contracts, only one bin was left.

So the result is rubbish being dumped in, around and next too, and around the bin, which of course is now blowing around the area into the river. 

This is not to mention the piles of rubbish left at various spots along the river as camps access various spots from Oura Beach.

If council want to advertise Oura Beach on its website as free camping and an asset then maybe they need to start looking after it, and especially at this time of year, by regularly cleaning up the rubbish dumped there instead of leaving it to the locals to clean up.

I’m afraid Father Brendan’s call for society to watch for misandry missed a critical point, in my view. 

Yes father, positive discrimination is still discrimination.

But one must ask why is it referred to as “positive”? Is it not so that a previous wrong can be redressed?

Isn’t it reasonable to provide women with a safe space to exercise, away from the male gaze (look it up folks, it’s a thing)?

Further, I would hazard a guess that most of those female news and current affairs program presenters that you referred to were under 40. 

The notion that we might moving towards misandry tends to be a backlash to the progression of women’s issues in society. 

Until the statistics on domestic violence change, calls to watch out for misandry would be better directed to more worthy causes.

I think it's about time someone undertook a cost benefit analysis of the environmental benefits of the Murray Darling Basin Plan. I cannot understand how running the rivers about 300mm or so deeper has created any measurable benefits. 

I am sure that the amount of water sent to environmental flows under the Basin Plan can be accurately and independently assessed as to the financial loss to the businesses effected, as well as the community damage and the taxation benefits missed due to the plan.

 Politicians and the city-dwelling voters are missing the huge problem this is creating.

I believe that we live in a world of information overload and the message needs to be simplified.

I would like some direct factual figures linked to how many school classrooms and hospital beds this costs our country every year. 

Laying out the facts may start to change the minds of political parties and the general public.