Outstanding performance
At the Shoalhaven Entertaintment Centre on June 8-9, a privileged few witnessed the Melbourne Ballet Company performing Arche, a contemporary reinterpretation of Swan Lake.
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The SEC is going in the right direction with such productions. The final Scene 6, The Dying Swan, to the swelling strains of Tchaikovsky, saw no dry eyes in the house.The Prince had been a perfect beast to Odette, dying of a broken heart.
I was a first time attendee to a matinee SEC session. The sound quality was good, the attendance solid for a matinee. But car parking was stretched to the limit.
To the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, well done. Let's have more of such quality productions and first- class musical scores.
S. Murphy, Huskisson
Neighbours fearful
A development application before the council at the moment is causing angst among neighbours.
The DA follows the sale of the heritage-listed White House, which has operated as a guest house for 100 years. The buyer, a government funded organisation, wishes to change the use to “group transitional house” for disaffected persons, bringing a violent/disruptive element into a family orientated neighbourhood.
The closure as an historic guest house and proposed new use is being kept low-key purposely. This needs reviewing and made transparent to the community, not hidden until too late.
R. Dunn, Nowra
Look north for answers
The Prime Minister recently said: “We’ve got to focus on enabling Australian enterprise. We could easily be left behind.”
Malcolm, it is the conservative government which turned its back on Australian manufacturers - everything from clothing to white goods are no longer manufactured here - we have nothing to sell.
Part of our problem is oil and gas exploration, where federal and state governments are victims of greedy corporations which care little for the environment, even less about the rest of us, and are rote to stash company profits in overseas tax havens.
Things are different in Norway; any company open to oil and gas exploration, has to pay a flat 75 per cent tax on profit – no deductions. The energy tax collected is funnelled into the government’s sovereign fund and used for social service, health and education.
Maybe if the government changed tack and took a leaf out of the Norwegians’ tax journal there may be a change for the better.
J. Macleod, Berry
One thing at a time
It is one thing to have visions and plans to attract major funding grants to the Shoalhaven but the way Team Gash have gone about the Bomaderry sporting proposal is to cut out of the loop anyone who is not part of their inner circle.
If council is going to gain the confidence of local people then it should start with sending the plans to the Sports Board which was excluded from the Gash announcement, received a briefing after the plans were finalised and then needed to submit a motion requesting a workshop on the Community Infrastructure Strategic Plan.
This council is great at producing glossy promotional brochures with ratepayers’ money and having a media campaign to back it all up, but when it comes to delivering projects not much seems to happen. The only reason we have the Ulladulla Civic Centre and the Nowra Pool is because the previous council initiated them.
Many Shoalhaven residents experience frustration over incomplete projects that have been stalled for years. Isn’t it time council decided to complete unfinished projects rather than propose starting something new that might take decades to achieve, if at all?