The article by Ben Langford on the refusal of WCC to accept the free offer of flood mapping experts to review WCC area flood issues was excellent, hard hitting, direct, highlighting the lack of preparedness and openness by WCC towards flood management.
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What was missing was the front-page headline: ‘‘WCC rejects offer of free expert advice on flood management’’, which is what this news item deserved.
A question arising from the article was: What level of confidence do the people of Wollongong have in the senior administration of WCC in rejecting the offer of this free expert advice?
In rejecting both the offer of free expert advice and the use of the latest standard document, particularly as the document was developed as a result of the Wollongong floods of 1998, WCC appears not to be operating in ‘‘good faith’’ that would give it protection from a negligence claim in the event of a flood.
Ian Young, East Corrimal
The Shellharbour Stop The Hub group welcomes the resignation of the general manager of Shellharbour City Council. Unfortunately, he is determined to stay until the unwanted hub project is decided...he should leave immediately.
Under his watch, we have seen a failure to resolve the stadium insurance issue, reduced services and increased rates, including the imposition of a special rate variation on ratepayers. Valuable assets have been sold yet there has been no surplus in recent budgets.
Staff morale has never been lower and he presides over a dysfunctional council.
The prospect of massive debt in order to build the hub is not acceptable to ratepayers and yet he and the three card-carrying members of the ALP who control the council refuse to listen to the community.
Voters in the next election should clearly understand that a vote for the ALP is a vote for the hub.
Dennis Chalker, Shellharbour
Perth lawyer Hal Colebatch has done the nation a service with his ground-breaking book Australia’s Secret War telling the untold story of union bastardry during World War II. What the wharfies did to Australian troops and our nation’s war effort between 1939-1945 is nothing short of an abomination.
One of the most obscene acts occurred in October 1945, after Australian soldiers were released from a Japanese prison camp. They were starving and desperate for home.
But when the British aircraft carrier HMS Speaker was brought into Sydney Harbour, the wharfies went on strike for 36 hours. The soldiers were forced to remain on board the carrier and suffer. This is fact, not fiction.
Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow
The amount of parking spaces around Wollongong is great and the parking meters work a wonder when you can stay up to two hours, but the biggest problem is that some cars take up too much space.
The council should mark parking spots so sensible parking will occur, instead of greedy parkers taking up two spots by the way they park.
The introduction of lines indicating a car length would be brilliant.
Tony Dunn, Wollongong
