Confusion with other similarly named educational institutions will occur. There are Sturt primary schools. There is a tertiary Sturt School at Mittagong, in the Southern Highlands some two hours drive from Sydney. This school started in 1941 and is an Australian centre of excellence for contemporary craft and design education, specialising in wood work.

Leave well enough alone. Do not change CSU’s name. Instead apply your intellectual grunt and finance to further improving the quality of your graduates. For the benefit of Australia.

Richard Salcole and Tony Thompson both have expressed valid points regarding the  “tattered flag” (on Baylis Street).

To see our nation’s flag looking its “worst for wear” is indeed a sorry sight in more ways than one. It suggests neglect of what it truly stands for. Just ask all our Australians (past and present) many having made the supreme sacrifice whilst others came home maimed for life. We owe them a debt of gratitude (all of them) our indigenous first Australians who fought side by side with all others for their nation’s (ongoing freedom we enjoy today) often easily taken for granted. Maybe the Wagga RSL might step in and remedy the need to replace this flag before Anzac Day, 2019. People can only ask and hope they will.

Another interesting proposal is the renaming of the university, dropping the word Charles - a name renown to royalty. I found interesting an article written by a professor who drew attention to the importance of tradition, naming Yale, Oxford and Cambridge university. Well known and respected, irrespective of where they are located. A name sticks, changing it is not always favorable.

However, there is a possibility of getting rid of the word Charles suggests royalty when we have those hell-bent on making this nation a republic and can’t knock the Royals enough for one must get rid of our democracy first along with our Christianity (this nation was once engaged in embracing) to herald in such a move.

Anything considered true blue “Aussie-ness” is under constant attack under the convenient guise of change (just for the sake of it). 

Most of our values have been allowed to be downgraded to accommodate the ushering in of the dysfunctional society we have today. Wanting change proposed and a proven ideology elsewhere of socialist-communist facts showing their ugly heads here in our society, is something our nation can well do without. We are the envy of the world, which is why people are destined to be wanting this kind of lifestyle because we aren’t a republic. Whereas they live in one and flee its dictatorship.

Time to get a grip for happiness is a state of mind, caught not taught. We already have it all, to risk alteration through foolhardiness by pressing our luck and following the socialist mob suggests self-inflicted contention.