We’re all in this together
Homelessness is only a word that we have been identified with, we are people, human beings just like you, that is the fundamental truth that cant be taken away from anyone. Our differences are misunderstood.
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It is only that we do not have a life consisting of a draining job to complain about, a home to pay off and fill with unnecessary items to create comfort and a routine to follow that most people are against. I see and have met many people staying in the Showground who are homeless, they are all genuine people who just are not in alignment with how the word is working today. I am currently one of them.
People have created two bubbles in life one for those who are living life correctly, and one bubble for those living life incorrectly. Life itself has no bubble or such view. If an apple tree grows many fruits it is accepted, if the tree grows no fruit, still it is accepted. We have got it all wrong. We see each other as enemies and so war and rivalry is created, we see differences and hate and so crime and hatred is created, until we see each other as friends, as living neighbours, as people and not the things and identities we have identified ourselves with we cannot share the world together, and we cannot share the Showground together.
E. Morris, Nowra
Letting the team down
So, my state member Gareth Ward is quoted in the South Coast Register as calling for four year terms for federal governments.
He must be referring to his state`s four year term and the perceived success of that initiative as a guide. His personal performance may be excellent but that cannot be said of his mentor and neighbouring South Coast MP Shelley Hancock.
When you have an under performing member in an adjacent electorate that has a direct impact on shared services (Police Services ie Bay and Basin Police Station) we need the lesser term so that her electorate can express their views on her performance.
The continued failed delivery on promises and pledges by Shelley Hancock detracts from your argument Mr Ward or are you using the current federal situation to once again, run interference for your colleagues poor performance. Forget the politics Gareth and look after your and our back yard first or are you considering a move to federal politics via the seat of Gilmore?
B.Cumberland, Nowra
Where’s the control?
Surely it is time for the country to accept that the unit that has declared its affiliations prior to any election, should it win the majority of seats, should thus hold government? There should reasonably be statutes that forbid any deals between any elected groups or individuals, such that they might claim to have "more" seats and thus entitlement to hold government? All "coalitions" should have to be declared prior to voting, so that the voters themselves are in control and not subject to the whims of those in the two major parties to try and take something that the majority of voters did not have the option of taking into account? Yes we have a hung parliament but the answer is to honestly try and govern for the people of the nation? Or call another election so that the People can then have the hindsight to think it over and choose themselves yet again? That has to be "Democracy". And nothing else?
R. Graffham, Nowra
No intimidation here
I take exception to Ann Sudmalis claiming intimidation on election by the Labor side. At the Bomaderry School we had two Liberal signs mounted on public poles illegally. I was standing and offering leaflets out of the traffic flow and noticed that some of the voters took them were startled to learn there was actually a Labor candidate, Fiona Phillips standing next to me. Why, because any Labor or Green poster that was not monitored continuously were removed.