MANY POSITIVES OUT OF 2020
Well, I might be different to everyone else. I think 2020 was the best year we have had for decades. We, as a society, focused on what mattered; our communities, family and ourselves. Online services were ramped up, improving equality for the bush. Essential services personnel, such as teachers, nurses and emergency services were publicly appreciated.
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Private and public hospitals started working together, were funded appropriately and focused on cleanliness. Unemployed were funded to a higher standard of living.
I really hope we don't go back to the way things were.
Greg Adamson, Griffith
STATE-SANCTIONED POPULATION CONTROL NOT THE ANSWER
Robert T Walker has a point when he states that the planet is over-crowded, but as usual he misses the big picture entirely ("Population tests our planet", The Daily Advertiser, December 30).
The main drivers that reduce the number of children women have are health care and education.
Good food supplies, good medical treatment and vaccination are key, and there is a clear link between level of education (particularly post-school) and reduced numbers of children. These are applicable worldwide, if Walker would like to look at the evidence. In regional areas there is also women's reproductive health to consider.
Wagga has been so very backward on providing medical termination of early pregnancy, or even being willing to discuss abortion, but these issues must be discussed.
Is Walker really advocating an equivalent of China's one-child policy? That halt on population growth was to alleviate social, economic and environmental problems.
It led to continued infanticide of baby girls, and eventually a skewed population sex ratio, so that young women are captured and forced in to marriage.
Walker is unreasonably frightened of Greta Thunberg. This is bizarre, as Greta may mirror David Attenborough in suggesting that limiting population is a good idea.
State-sanctioned reproductive control is just not the way to achieve it.
Sarah Pollard Williams, Brucedale
NO VACCINE FOR BASIN WOES
Here we are at the end of what has been a difficult year for everybody. The vaccine will roll out this year and hopefully this COVID will be behind us.
Unfortunately for farmers and communities living in the Murray-Darling Basin we have no vaccine for the political and bureaucratic dopes who are destroying thousands of hard working Australians' way of life, along with our rivers and natural environment.
The Darling River has been all but destroyed and now the Murray River is showing extremely distressing signs of overflowing and shocking mismanagement.
The whole Murray-Darling Basin is incredibly naturally and culturally diverse and should never have been lumped together, but it has and all these ever-changing experts with the wonderful computer modelling have brought it to its knees.
No one takes responsibility and all we keep getting told is blatant lies.
These faceless, spineless people will never listen unless we make them. I hope you all have a safe, happy and successful 2021.
Peter Gilmour, Cobram
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