Israel Folau's quandary is fascinating
Four million dollars was not enough to stifle his urge to tweet condemnation upon homosexuals, drunks, atheists and other desperadoes. But apparently the fundamentalist urgings of his religion do not force him to forego the loot - because he now wants the right to pronounce hell and damnation upon various people of whom he disapproves and also to grab their $4 million sponsorship money as his salary.
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Personally I don't care what he thinks because I have no social media accounts wherein I might be assailed by his miserable medieval Puritan views. And secondly, if people believe that all drunks are going to hell, well I'm looking forward to meeting up with a few miserable, argumentative and lovable old coots, over a pint or so, therein.
What I don't understand is why a bloke with a motza of tattoos, which are strictly forbidden in Leviticus, who strives to serve both God and Mammon, which the bible forbids (Matthew 6: 24), thinks it is his duty to lecture others about how to live their lives in accordance to rules that he personally breaks every day.
Every time this bloke opens his mouth - or tweets some fundamentalist truism - he loses potential believers. I suppose I should be happy about that - but I'm not because good Christians always put love of their neighbour way before condemning him to hell because of the way he or she was born.
And that's what makes a successful community. Good Christians support this society, self-righteous fundamentalists seek to destroy it.
Robert T. Walker
Wagga
No more shortcuts on essential services
It might come as a surprise to my fellow citizens that the records of Medicare are still stored on microfiche.
People born after 1990 probably don't even know what this is but it's basically a micro photograph of the paper pages of a file.
Three-and-a-half months ago I needed to apply for a copy of my Medicare records for legal reasons.
Several months later, at my second visit to the local Centrelink office, I discovered that Medicare records were not stored digitally as one would expect in 2019 but were on the archaic microfiche system, which would consist of thousands, perhaps millions, of sheets of a type of clear plastic kept in a filing cabinet.
It's now four visits and four emails and applications sent off to Canberra that I've got under my belt.
The people at Centrelink in Griffith have been polite, sympathetic and professional.
I'm on first name terms with the bloke at the foyer and will probably ask for my next grandson to be named after him.
It's incredible that a government can spend countless millions on political, pre-election advertising using our money when that same money could have been allocated to digitising the Medicare records of our country.
Apart from my wasted time and the wasted time of the Centrelink officials, federal parliamentarians should take the remaining time until the upcoming election to actually do something rather than stand around porkbarrelling.
