There are plenty of suitable locations with  depths of around 30 metres on sand that are well clear of the shipping lanes. This would be a huge boost for eco tourism in the form of scuba diving tours and all the spin-off income for restaurants and accommodation providers plus many more.

 The sunken ship would also act as an artificial reef to attract plenty of marine life to enrich our ocean. 

We could add another reason for tourists to visit Wollongong if we are able to boast that they can visit Sydney in Wollongong.

Michael Barnett, Woonona 

During my working life as a contributor, both compulsory and voluntary to my superannuation funds, I actually lost almost $37,000 due to crashes in stocks and shares which my fund managers fobbed off as uncontrollable movements in the market place.

However, the administrative charges, plus the federal government taxing of the money going in, the money making gains, and the money on withdrawal, means that if the funds were invested in real estate I would have been streets ahead on retirement.

Let our young workers invest in their own home I say. I like the roof over my head a damn  sight  more than the roof over the stock exchange.

Dave Cox, Corrimal

It has been two months since the Abbott government’s economic policies started taking toll.

And here is how it works: Joe Hockey cuts federal funding to the states and we all complain about broken-down health and education systems. 

The states say they have to privatise to fund everything from roads to hospitals to infrastructure to schools.

 Then Joe chimes in again and bleats the country’s broke and we all have to pay more out of our own pockets because of dirty rotten fiscal policies of Labor.

 That’s it – that’s Treasury economic strategy – starve the states of finance – the states privatise – and then as an encore the  federal government makes the public empty their pockets to pay through the nose for health and education.

 And we are only entering the third month of 2015. The May budget is going to be a doozy. 

Between now and then it is anyone’s guess what else these buffoons will get up to – they have lost the plot.

John Macleod, Berry

Ratepayers of Shellharbour City are astounded by the latest twist by this council in regard to the City Hub project.

Council have had since October 2014 to comply with the conditions imposed by the Joint Regional Planning Panel.

 They have simply been unable to comply because as the community has told them, the project is poorly sited, unwanted and clearly unaffordable. So now they go back to the JRPP and plea for an exemption to council’s very own planning guidelines?

 Can anyone believe that the people who are paid to get the planning correct in the first instance are now asking for the rules to be changed to suit themselves? One rule for others and a different rule for council?

 This project has been a financial fiasco from day one and the message is now very clear to all ... Stop The Hub.

Dennis Chalker, Shellharbour Village