There have been many times when I have wanted to give up but for a loving family have persevered. I have seen so many people suffering with chronic debilitating pain waiting to die for years. That is no quality of life and so cruel!

So why can’t marijuana under medical supervision be legalised? We don’t let our pets suffer! People deserve to die or live with dignity.

 Unless someone has suffered chronic pain you can’t imagine how horrific it can be. Please offer some relief to the many suffering in our society!

Regina Devitt, Figtree

Hill 60 can be a great tourist attraction. I hope they also have an information  board showing Hill 60 in context as part of Fortress Kembla and other Illawarra WWII defence sites.

Does anyone remember the underground tunnels at the eastern end of the Berkeley Reservoirs in the 1950s? The rumour back then was that it housed a  telescope. Can anyone add more info?

Cliff Bell, Barrack Heights

A few facts about the Sydney desalination plant: the construction budget for the project was $1.896billion and it was delivered on time at an estimated $60million under budget.

Energy generation offset: part of Sydney desalination plant’s cost was the construction of a wind farm to offset the energy usage with renewable energy (costs to run the plant – neutral). The 67-turbine wind farm at Bungendore produces approximately 450 gigawatt-hours per year.

Operation: for two years the plant ran at full capacity (250 million litres/day). On 2 July 2012 when Warragamba Dam storage levels reached 90per cent capacity the then minister for services, Greg Pearce directed the Sydney desalination plant cease production and later the same year the government entered into a lease agreement. The terms of the $2.3billion lease locked Sydney Water into a 50-year water supply agreement with a private consortium.

Recent figures released disclose maintenance at the plant cost taxpayers $194.9million in 2012-13, in 2013-14 it cost $192.7million and to March this year a further $147.1million.

In view of this the lessee owners of the desalination plant should recoup their $2.3billion lease payment within the next nine years.

Whichever way you look at it the government has been taken to the cleaners. The costs to the government in firing up the desalination plant in times of drought are going to be horrendous.

John Macleod, Berry

Dawn Fraser was not far wrong about what that tennis player should do.

Warren Fleming, Balgownie

The greatest threat there is to our younger  residents is being actively and vigorously carried out by predators who plant spyware cookies on computers owned and operated by our children.

There is no protection available for our kids to stop them from being tracked as they go from site to site on the internet.

We need our laws to be updated to bring in harsh penalties for those who deliberately plant cookies to track the movements of kids across the internet.

Dave Cox, Corrimal