Motorists have to pay for a pink slip to ensure their cars are roadworthy, maybe the council should try to make roads in our city and surrounds car-worthy. But I find this will not happen when they and developers use "road base" with too much clay content.

No foundation underneath results in cracks on top, cracks on top let in the rain that is always used as an excuse for the potholes. The patching gang should have no trouble finding these as they have been to most four times before. Have a look at Pearson Street, Benedict Avenue San Isidore, and many, many more.

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On Sunday, August 22, it was reported that three very elderly people (with underlying health issues) from NSW died as a result of the COVID-19 virus.

On ABC radio the following day three different politicians over a period of one-and-a-half hours said their hearts and prayers went out to the families of the deceased.

In The Daily Advertiser (August 17), it was reported that in the first seven-and-a-half months of 2021, 12 fatalities had occurred on Riverina roads alone.

Add to this other deaths as a result of suicide, farm and work site accidents, terminal medical conditions etc, yet not one word of condolence from any politicians, even our local members, was forthcoming. Why?

The idea of having a vaccine passport for those people who've had their double dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is nothing more than discrimination to those people who choose not to receive the vaccine. In a nutshell it's the same as favouring the rich over the poor and purely it's unfair. One size fits all I say.

Between 2015 and 2019 many countries decreased their support for fossil fuel companies, including Russia (decreased by 4 per cent), UK (-18 per cent), Italy (-33 per cent) and Saudi Arabia (-50 per cent).

On the other hand, the USA increased its subsidies to fossil fuel companies by 37 per cent. France increased their government support by 24 per cent and China by 4 per cent. But Australia has the gold medal in that competition. We led the pack by increasing support for coal and gas companies by 49 per cent. No wonder the fossil fuel companies love Australia and its politicians.

When you are making money hand over fist from fossil fuels, it just makes sense to make as much as possible, and to extract as much government assistance as possible before the whole Ponzi scheme goes bust.

Just be sure to sell off the defunct gas wells and the destroyed coal mine landscape before you have to pay for their rehabilitation. That, as always, is a job for public money.

And, just in case you might think that this is old news, the Australia Institute points out that fossil fuel subsidies cost Australians a staggering $10.3 billion in FY 2020-21, with one Commonwealth tax break alone ($7.84 billion) exceeding the $7.82 billion spent on the Australian Army.

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