NEEDLESS VANDALISM A BLOOMING DISGRACE
I am an old age pensioner and it gives me great delight to have people walking past my home in William Street Keiraville say to me that they just love going past and enjoying my garden.
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Well I was saddened this afternoon when I went out to top up the water in the bird bath that I have and to find that some low life has ripped out of the ground, five beautiful rhododendrons that were planted a few months ago and were looking great.
They had been able to survive the heat and were looking good. I will be reporting the theft to the police as someone has come into my yard and stolen those shrubs, each costing around $30.00. That is a crime and must be reported.
Is nothing sacred anymore? People just didn’t do those things in my time. What has society come to?
Please, if anyone sees a neighbour planting new shrubs, call the police. This is a disgraceful act.
Alf Green, Keiraville.
GOING POSTAL OVER CEO’S DEPARTURE
It’s interesting that Ahmed Fahour (the man from Australia Post that earns $5.6 million/year) chose his resignation day as the same day that penalty rates were taken from the working poor. I hope he didn't do this in the hope that no one will ask him what amount of money he gets for resigning.
Ray Jaeger, Coledale
FROM BAD TO WORSE
Under the reign of previous US president Barack Obama illegal immigrants that committed serious crimes were thrown out of the country: a record of 434,000 in 2013 and 333,000 in the wake of more leniency in 2015.
Now with the middle class revolution and the election of Donald Trump things have gone from bad to worse. Now illegals will be shown the door for the simplest of offences – traffic infringements, shoplifting and the like. Even suspicion they might have committed a crime will be grounds for deportation.
Donald Trump bases his tough measures on Operation WetbacK, a controversial deportation program of the 1950s instituted by President Dwight Eisenhower; when it was estimated that more than one million people left the US during roundups. For now it is up to the US courts to decide if to abide with what Congress put into law.
John Macleod, Berry
APOLOGY REQUIRED FOR MERGER MISTRUTHS
On March 19, 2015, the now Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a “Meet the Candidates Forum” in Chatswood: “I think it is important to us to keep local government local to the people … and there will be nothing people will be forced into ….”.
On March 18, 2015, the now Deputy Premier John Barilaro told a “Meet the Candidates Forum” in Bombala: “Let me be clear, there will be no forced amalgamations in this region. I will be guided by my community. I will keep ‘Local’ in local government.”
On October 11, 2015, the now Minister for Local Government Gabrielle Upton told a rally at Double Bay: “I believe there is no perfect size for a council and what works here [Woollahra] may not work for those that are three streets to our south.”
The Premier, the Deputy Premier, and the Minister for Local Government should apologise to all those communities across NSW that they misled in 2015, and keep their undertakings to not impose forced council mergers anywhere in our state.
Peter Primrose MLC, Shadow Minister for Local Government
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