Disagreement not negative
On hearing Shoalhaven Mayor Joanna Gash’s “negative” blast re Egans Lane car park, against Nowra businessman Scott Baxter on 2ST’s morning news broadcast, one is compelled to come to Mr Baxter’s defence.
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I would suggest Mr Baxter is quite the contrary to negative.
He is the positive example of a positive and involved Nowra businessman with the interests of all Nowra CBD businesses at heart.
Over the past several years he has been involved in almost every move to modernise and improve Nowra’s image.
I can refer to, among his many other involvements, his presence at and contribution to the Nowra CBD Action Committee, the Nowra CBD Car Parking Development Committee and most recently his lead in establishing the Nowra Business Chamber.
Mayor Gash, there is an old chestnut which says “just because I disagree with you, doesn’t make me negative”.
L. Sewell, Vincentia
Profits trump laws
Member for Gilmore Ann Sudmalis it appears that your government is arguing for austerity, with an elitist, anti-equality, unjust policy agenda through the privatisation/deregulation of the public’s services.
The 12 country Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and 50 country Trades in Services Agreement (TiSA) both necessitate a massive privatisation/deregulation and include Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). ISDS cedes power to corporations to sue the public, if corporations’ predicted future profits are threatened by our local/state/federal laws/regulations, subordinating equality and justice to consolidation of corporate power.
At stake is equality and justice for citizens.
In NSW elitist Premier Mike Baird has systematically destroyed TAFE with cuts, to drive services into the ground then, justify to the public selling to the private sector. This costs the community. Private for profit providers, many with no experience in education, “compete” against TAFE and “win” public funding at the expense of experienced TAFE teachers losing their jobs and students priced out of a TAFE education because of the exorbitant for profit cost of a course.
Mrs Sudmalis where will Australian’s public services, owned by the private sector, whose modus operandi is to cut jobs and wages to boost corporate profits and shareholder returns, fit into Prime Minister Turnbull’s “exciting, 21st century, innovative, nimble, agile economy”?
M. Searson, Batemans Bay
Bring back buybacks
The abolition of the buyback centres in regional waste depots is a huge waste. Reinstate, reuse regionally, we say.
Kangaroo Valley, Berry and other regional "tips" are now denied a great community resource. Ravenous reuse was regularly realised in all the regions until the buybacks were closed in February. What's the rationale?
All preloved things from a sheet or two of corrugated iron to finish the chook shed, some four by two for the cubby house, a bicycle for visiting kids, a few metres of ag pipe to help save some water, a few bricks to prop up the garden wall, some star posts to fix the fence, and even the the odd antique or collectible or a stick of furniture and an absolute myriad of other items for a million uses were easily retrieved for relove. They were recycled. Reused.
Now, really, those items will mostly be binned and replenish the ridiculous mountain of rubbish.
Some useful things are apparently being trucked to West Nowra for resale but it's just the tip of the iceberg and an awfully long drive. The regionals are being robbed of their rightful relics.
Please, Shoalhaven City Council, choose to reinstate the three important Rs in the regional depots. Rightful regional reuse.