As an election candidate, one of Group E's priorities is to make this city more functional.

One solution is we want better shade protection in the form of shade sails and trees across all playgrounds in this region.

Council's previous community consultation found the need for shade was one of the top three improvement requests in 2015.

Why are so many playgrounds still lacking shade coverage?

We need to make this happen and we need to get it done.

Your front-page story "Blind Spot" in Saturday's DA reiterates what has previously been said by myself and other correspondents in regards for the need to set up mobile speed cameras at black spots where there is a history of major vehicle accidents rather than suburban streets with a 50km/h speed limit.

No surprises in the dispassionate, robotic answers from Transport for NSW, which seem to be read from a prepared list.

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Keith Wheeler's longing for a holiday ("Holidays shouldn't just be a dream because of COVID", November 15) is understandable but, while borders are closed, he could profitably spend some time contemplating injustice, discrimination and cruelty.

Crocodiles may well eat us if we enter their feeding sites, and so might sharks and lions and many other animals.

Does that imply we should exterminate them or commit brutalities against them, or should we respect their right to live, and maybe stay clear of them when they're hungry?

Keith mentions speciesism which, as he says, is a form of discrimination similar to sexism and racism. Richard Ryder coined the term over 50 years ago, saying "enlightened minds may one day abhor speciesism as much as they now detest racism. The illogicality in both forms of prejudice is of an identical sort."

Just as racism dehumanises its victims, speciesism objectifies and allows unfettered exploitation of other animals with little regard for their welfare or their right to enjoy their lives.

Where there is money to be made from exploiting animals for their flesh, skin, for testing, entertainment or anything else, there will be cruelty.

The crocodiles whose skins are used for bags and shoes by Hermès endure imprisonment in squalid conditions followed by a violent death; their snouts are bound and they're electrocuted or shot and then stabbed in the neck to sever their spinal cords.

Keith does not need to like crocs to recognise that this is unnecessarily cruel, as have many major designers and retailers including Chanel, Nine West, Victoria Beckham, Nike and others who have banned exotic skins. And of course if Keith doesn't like crocs, stopping a proposed development which would breed 50,000 of them seems like a no-brainer.

There's another reason Keith may reconsider his support of crocodile farms. Crocs raised on farms for their skin are kept crowded together in highly unhygienic conditions - one on top of another in pits of putrid water, so conservation experts are warning that the next pandemic could come from the fashion industry.

If there's a new pandemic, Keith, you'll be locked down even longer.

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