Narrow little nuisance
Speaking as a rate paying resident if North Nowra,I would like to know who is responsible for the misappropriation of ratepayers funds by building a useless annoying roundabout on Illaroo Road.
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Its whole purpose seems to be to anger almost everyone driving the road, delaying traffic that wasn't heavy enough to warrant it and making a useful, suitably wide road into a narrow little nuisance.
I want to know why no consultation was there before spending our rates on this very expensive roundabout.
Impossible to justify roadwork.
In this area, we have streets with no footpaths and yet the cost of a house is instead carelessly blown on this!
Come on councillors, explain yourselves.
R. Hoye, North Nowra
Not so strong after all
If the economy is so strong as the Liberals touted throughout their election campaign, why is the RBA cutting interest rates to stimulate the economy, citing low wage growth and weak household consumption, Mr Morrison?
While there are numerous ways to measure living standards, when you focus on workers and households it is clear that since September 2013 things have become worse.
Perhaps the RBA decided less than a month since the re-election of the Morrison government they had to take matters into their own hands as we are unable to continue on this path of low wages, insecure work and weak retail consumption.
Says it all really.
J. Miles, Berry
Taken for a ride
The taxpayer owned investment corporation, Treasury Corporation, at the end of the 2017-18 financial year had investments and property worth $94 billion.
Now consider these costs paid or to be paid by the NSW taxpayer.
Sydney Desalination Plant $200 million a year over 50 years $10 billion. The privatisation of the desalination plant was not warranted-a government waste of $10 billion.
The extravagant and overpriced first stage of the WestConnex $17 billion - a separate issue - an enquiry should be held.
Sydney Light Rail - cost $3.5 billion - government waste.
The rail rolling stock could have been built locally from overseas specifications and run by the government - jobs, jobs, jobs.
Sydney Metro: again government waste. The estimated cost; $20 billion.
Just like the Opera House, rail rolling stock could have been built locally from overseas specifications and run by the government - jobs, jobs, jobs.
The dunderheads at the NSW Treasury are flinging our money around like "drunken sailors".
All things being equal $23.5 billion could have been drawn out of the government's TCorp and used to build the light-rail and metro project.
It would not affect treasury finances. The Treasury has $60 billion stashed away in an American private bank-J.P. Morgan (Australia).
Just imagine the difference: toll free motorways, and government owned and run transport.
Plus, a boost to workers' pay packets.
J. Macleod, Berry
Bank did the right thing with rates move
The ANZ has done the right thing by reducing its mortgage rates by 0.18 per cent and not 0.25 per cent.
As it has said the last time interest rates were cut by 0.25 per cent the banks all cut their rates by 0.13 per cent so historically it is on firm ground.
It will have higher rates for savings accounts than the CBA which got bullied into reducing by 0.25 per cent and lower interest rates for people depositing money.