Don't diminish our CBD
Council needs to carefully consider where it places major amenities such as hospitals. At the moment, our town is poorly planned. It is becoming more and more decentralised as South Nowra grows and the CBD and heart of the down is left to die due to poor decisions. While I'm not proposing the hospital is in the CBD, we can't just keep sticking things out at South Nowra and disjointing the town. We need to support the CBD to create a stronger and better town.
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W. Bruderlin, Cambewarra
No longer a country hospital
Unless the Shoalhaven Hospital plans to go vertical, it needs to be removed from its current site.
With the increase in population and treatment options being offered, this is no longer a little country hospital.
Nowra and surrounding districts need to be provided for into the distant future, not have the hospital being continually patched up.
L. Olssen, Basin View
Injured deserve better
Two seperate motor vehicle accidents saw the injured suffering fractures being transported to Wollongong Hospital from Shoalhaven City. We are not a hick town but a city. The injured deserve better than the stress of going to Wollongong fracture department.
W. Bourke, Sanctuary Point
Start paying your way
I'm right behind the Jerrinja Land Council.
If these bludgers want to close the gap they should start pulling their weight and start paying their way instead of leaning on their brothers and sisters.
G. Maligarra, Jervis Bay
Share the dignity partnership
This is a wonderful idea provided Woolworths doesn't use it as a golden opportunity to jack up prices of sanitary goods. Woolworths does this sort of thing quite often. When dairy farmers were struggling, Woolworths said they would donate a percentage of their dairy sales to struggling farmers. They then jacked up the prices of their dairy goods to offset their donation!
J. Hogg, Berry
Provide for the disabled
Many families have a member who is partially or totally disabled. The family I am part of has a member who is TPD (Totally and Permanently Disabled).
The ABS records show a high proportion of the Australian population are affected by disability in some form. Recently resorts and holiday destinations were advertising venues, to encourage visitors.
The response to our request for disabled rooms/amenities was abysmal. They were prepared to 'tart' it up, but there were some things that stood in the way of a comfortable stay.
When is the tourism industry going to get its act together and provide properly for disabled people and their carers?
You do not need a person with an MBA to tell the industry there is a need for disabled and carers accommodation and amenities.
P. Corkish, Wollongong
Tax exemptions don't help
Now I know that I must be naive. This week homelessness during winter is at the forefront of discussion at many agencies.
I am a little confused though. Religious ornagisations are tax exempt for them to assist vulnerable people yet I believe a Cathollic priest lives in a house worth more than a milion and I believe the minister of Hillsong lives in a multimillion mansion in Sydney.
Is this what tax free exemption gets the community?
I think this should be reviewed in the future unless the underprivileged are cared for.
