The crux of Alexander Sheridan’s letter (Your Say, July 20) was that there were no legal avenues open to the criminals defacing public and privately owned property with illegal graffiti and that Wollongong council should create a venue for these criminals.
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He is obviously not alone with that line of thinking and that is the real problem, the age of entitlement, regardless whether it is legal or illegal and until that type of thinking is changed by either education, stronger law enforcement, less lenient judges and better parenting, nothing will change.
The burden of these illegal acts by young and juvenile criminals will continue to cost hard-working ordinary citizens their hard-earned dollars to satisfy their need to deface or destroy other people’s property.
I just hope that this council which is so eager to waste our rate dollars tells them where to go.
But then again they wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on skate parks.
John Ernst, Kanahooka
Not sure what Mr Devlin has against people who are concerned about climate change, but yes it will cost us a little to switch to green power. The fact is our society has been burning coal, oil and gas for all our energy needs and only paying the cost of pulling it out of the ground. Mother Nature took millions of years to lock that carbon underground and change the climate to the one we know today, and if we don’t stop putting it back into the atmosphere our children will have to contend with a climate from prehistoric times.
We have created a greenhouse with our atmosphere. The best scientists from every country in the world agree that temperatures and seas will now rise for centuries to come.
The change to the atmosphere is ‘‘irreversible in the lifetime of our society’’ they say and every kilogram of coal, oil and gas we burn makes it worse.
Tom Hunt, Oak Flats
‘‘Need for secret/secure doorways to exit meetings at Shellharbour Council’’ (Mercury July 11 and Your Say, July 18).
There are exit doors, one behind the mayor and one to the southside of the room. It seems the mayor and manager are clutching at straws to support the argument for a new City Hub.
Stuart Greenaway, Barrack Heights
It was interesting to note the only Australian people with a legitimate right to be the architects of any “Reclaim Australia’’ demonstrations – the Aboriginal people and true owners of Australia – were not prominent in the ranks of the Reclaim Australia mob at the weekend.
Is it possible a breakdown in communications between the organisers of the Reclaim Australia demonstrations and the Aboriginal people led to them not being there? Surely that must have been the situation?
It would seem logical the Aboriginal people, having had nearly 230 years of being disenfranchised from their land would have welcomed the opportunity for their voice to be heard at the Reclaim Australia demonstrations.
Any reason other than a breakdown of communications is too distressing to even contemplate!
Barry Swan, Balgownie
It’s been so cold lately politicians have been seen with their hands in their own pockets.
Tim Fitzgerald, Kiama
