IDEAS TO MAKE STREET SPECIAL
Enjoyed a stroll along the bottom end of Fitzmaurice Street over the new year. Very impressed with the vibe and enthusiasm.
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Just need help now from Wagga City Council. Scrap the bike lane completely, they don't need it, and revert to angle parking - a little less angled than Gurwood Street - and see Fitzmaurice Street boom.
Russ Meyers, Wagga
LESSONS MUST BE AFFORDABLE
It has come to my attention that some families are unable to afford the entry fee to the Oasis swimming pool and pay for swimming lessons for their children. I wonder if there could be a government allowance for families to be financed for swimming lessons?
When we grew up here I don't think it cost anything. Now that's the way it should be, because we know children drown every year. And there are warnings at the beginning of summer to parents to take great care, but for families not to be able to, say, go to the Oasis to be able to be in a swimming program is just disgusting.
Let Michael McCormack and Joe McGirr take great note for all families and for adults too. Because when refugees come they don't have the water skills that we do.
At Bondi and Manly, people get into difficulties because they don't know the surf as we know it. It would be the same here for the river beach. And why keep the children and their families away from the water there, just because they aren't skilled in the ways of the river?
Anne Helyar, Uranquinty
'WE ARE NOT BREEDING ENOUGH'
Thank you Bruce Harper for giving me another chance to get the message out there ("Unsure of population claim", January 2).
Being a regular writer to the editor you will know that the editor can change the heading of your letter to suit his own politics.
In my letter I referred to a change made by John Howard to try and fix the declining population in Australia. I dare not mention that the politics of John Howard are a long way from the politics of The DA!
However, back to my point, which I did not make very well, and in doing so I have got another chance to mention the dire situation in Australia. We are not breeding enough Aussies, simple as that. Each couple needs to produce, on average, 2.1 children just to keep us where we are.
We are producing about 1.6 children per couple at present. We are able to maintain some sort of population growth by importing people ... immigration.
We are spending heaps of money by borrowing it and at present, because interest rates are so low, we seem to think we can pay it back in the future. Who will pay it back and by what rates of tax can they do it? With a declining number of taxpayers?
Demographics is a very interesting subject. Take Italy, for example. In the future, anyone will be able to 'take' it! Their rate of reproduction of people is down to nearly one child per couple. They are well and truly going to disappear off the face of the earth.
In my letter I thought I'd give a plug to families, you know, where lots of children come from?
Des Goonan, Wagga
Editor's note: The headlines on letters do not represent the views of the editor, but reflect the key point or points made by the letter-writer.
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