Young girl deserves justice
It is unbelievable that a young girl playing football who was hit by an unregistered and uninsured bike rider is not entitled to any compensation. I hope she gets justice.
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Judith Hilton, Mount Austin
Did I hear that correctly?
I received recently a communication from Australian Hearing. They were advising me that they were changing their name from Australian Hearing to Hearing Australia.
The explanation for this change was that the new name "would better reflect their current image and would enable them to offer better services to their clients".
Have you ever heard such utter drivel, such absolute codswallop in all your life?
When one sees decisions such as these being made by otherwise sensible people it's enough to drive one to despair.
Norman Alexander, Wagga
Thanks for sharing land
Following NAIDOC Week, I thank our Indigenous citizens, especially the Aunties and Uncles, for sharing their land with all of us; and to me personally for friendship over seven decades at Leeton and here at Wagga.
As a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society Aboriginal Partnership Committee, comprising some gubbas, with Koories and Murris from areas around NSW, with Aunty Betty I visited many Indigenous communities. On one occasion I stood at an open-air mass and blessing at two graves at the Bowraville settlement with the mother and family of two murdered children. Now there is a third gravestone, but the little girl's body has never been found.
The fact appears to be that because they were Aboriginal, the initial investigation was botched and the murderer has never been found guilty. How sad for the families - they suffer without closure.
Which relate to the brutal murders, with starvation and deprivation of Australia's first peoples, who were classed as fauna and treated as vermin. Little wonder we have ongoing social disorder in many of our Indigenous families to this day.
The amazing and humbling reality is that leaders of our Indigenous communities, while they can never forget, express forgiveness. Before going to the main point of this letter - the Voice - I must say that the inhumanity and lack of respect that decimated the Nations, from the Colonial era to the Stolen Generation (the latter in my lifetime) has an eerie echo, with a campaign in the land of Oz - the systematic changing of laws by the states to permit the wholesale slaughter of Australians by Australians in the name of mercy-killing; that is, euthanasia and abortion.
The latter means the killing of an estimated 80,000 babies a year in Australia. This procedure is due to be carried out in public hospitals, in line with Labor Party policy, which is at the behest of women's lib, including those on Emily's List. Sadly, an iconic Aboriginal lady went on the list when she joined the parliamentary ALP.
However, Linda Burney is still working for her people, as reported in The Australian, where she said: "(Mr Gleeson [former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson in the debate over an indigenous voice to parliament]) is correct in every sense. It was never meant to usurp the supremacy or the sovereignty of the parliament. It is advisory only and it sits outside the parliament."
Darcy Maybon, Turvey Park
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