A bridge too far
An SCR report, ‘Hancock backs push for bridge’, demands this response.
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A new pedestrian bridge over Moona Moona Creek is the latest project Mrs Hancock has given her support to.
A provision of $50,000 for concept designs and development plans along with correspondence with relevant ministers while asking for help in identifying other funding options.
Again I ask Mrs Hancock, what have you to report re the status of the promised Bay and Basin police station?What letters have you written and to whom regarding this most important piece of infrastructure.
You say a new pedestrian bridge would improve the safety of tourists. We say a new police station and allocated staff would provide much more safety for tourists in an area experiencing a high level of anti-social behaviour.
Any chance of a similar update on the police station?
B. Cumberland, North Nowra
Stand up to barbarity
I am agitated to hear about another chemical weapons attack in Syria which has killed and sickened many including women and children. Sadly, the Syrian conflict has resulted in massive civilian casualties, mass migration and infrastructure destruction. A lot of hospitals and medical clinics are also being targeted in the air strikes. I wonder why there is no uproar in the civilised Western world about these war crimes.
I am not convinced Western countries are taking serious steps to end the conflict. There is a great need to understand the real extent of this crisis and increase our foreign aid. I urge our Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to take bold stand against the ongoing barbarity and war crimes in Syria.
U. Mahmood, South Bowenfels
Back to the future
The conservative all-out assault on unionism has changed the political scene from worker solidarity to fragmented individualism. Throw in the unscrupulous use of migrant work visas and we are back in the 19th century with wages and work conditions left to the discretion of the employer.
It would appear from the approach of the Turnbull government the fair work environment, championed by Labor, has vanished forever, and in its place we have a conservative business model of worker exploitation.
J. Macleod, Berry
We can’t look away
Right now 26 million people in East Africa are at risk of starvation. This is the equivalent of every woman, child and man in Australia regularly going hungry.
Famine is very serious. It is only declared when four out of every 10,000 children die each day and one in three people are so malnourished they are too weak to go to school or work.
This is a crisis that cannot be ignored. Over time, we’ve become almost immune to hearing about food in Africa. It’s easy to scroll by images of hardship in your Facebook feed to something that makes you smile instead. But we can’t scroll past.
Right now, conflict is making it very hard to gain access to the famine declared region in South Sudan, Unity State. But once the door opens, and the TV crews arrive, we will begin to see just how horrific this is. We already have reports of children eating weeds and water lilies to survive.
The good news is that Plan is working in South Sudan, right now, handing out food and protecting girls and women.
The UN estimates that it requires $4.4 billion is needed to stop famine spreading to other countries in Eastern Africa. Plan International intends to raise $40 million to help do our part.
We can avert this crisis from becoming worse, but the time to act is now. Visit www.plan.org.au/give/appeals/south-sudan-famine or call 13 75 26.