ON THE BIG BUCKS
Mr Farmer’s $410,501 contract is obscene. How dare the council extend his contract in confidential, without including the rate payers. Who voted on the Mayor’s $110,000?
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Where were they when residents of South Wollongong had a meeting about the flooding in their street? For these sums of money they should be personally accountable for any mishap or injury that occurs in their jurisdiction and on call 24/7. How many road workers etc could be employed from this money? These remunerations should be open for debate to all ratepayers. This is a council, not a billion dollar company.
Ratepayers expect their rates to be spent on the upkeep of their city, not on high flying executives. Too much of Australia’s salaries and wages are eaten up by the top end. This is endemic in Australia.
Ardent’s Deborah Thomas’s total lack of compassion and legal responsibility for the four people killed at Dreamworld for example. Fairfax, another example. The CEO, paid over $1million, his answer for falling profits, sack those that actually do the work.
It’s time to make these people accountable. It’s time executives need to have an Arbitration Court set their salaries and made legally and financially responsibility to their workers and the community.
Dave Schmidt, Towradgi
A BLATANT TRICK
The contribution ‘Another HECS view’ (Illawarra Mercury, Friday May 12, 2017) from “the usual suspect” indicates his delusional “Reds under every bed” phobia continues apace. From the personal detail he has provided in his recent letters, “the usual suspect” might possibly already know exactly when it was that prospective applicants for university courses had their expectations raised (and realised) ,with regard to free university entrée.
It was in 1972, when the Whitlam government introduced free entry (subject to merit) to any Australian University. While in no way comparable to the Russian Revolution of 1917 as a World defining event; the newly elected Whitlam government introduced a substantial amount of positive and significant social changes; including free university.
Possibly, to be generous to “the usual suspect” he may have been somewhere else at the time. But it was quite a big story and was widely reported by print and electronic media.
Obviously, since 1972; the ideological imperatives of conservative governments have degraded many of the Whitlam achievement’s. However, neither time nor tide or ideological hyperbole, has blunted the intelligence and acumen of Australian youth. They have recognised the Turnbull university plan for what it clearly is, a blatant confidence trick.
Barry Swan, Balgownie
YOU CAN BANK ON IT
I have now listened to the ranting and raving from the media and public commentators for a few days concerning the levy/tax placed on what four or five banks.’
That is some $500,000,000s a year per bank or a total of $1,500,000,000 from a reported profited of $30,000,000,000 from all four or five banks. That is 0.5 per cent of the profit from these the most profitable banks on this planet.
My family has banked with one of the four big banks since 1974. This Bank has surrendered its invested soul to the socialist green lobby by refusing to support coal mining and has me considering changing to another bank/credit union. The straw that will break my back is if this bank loads the customers/shareholders with this levy.
Robert S Buick MM JP, Mountain Creek
TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS
I see there were no complaints from the other side regarding the federal budget but to me it still confirms Malcolm Turnbull’s fanatical commitment to trickle down economics.
There was no sign of jobs growth in this budget.
There was nothing on millions of redundant people now unemployed or looking for work. Nothing on casual workers, contract workers or outsourced work.
I was always lead to believe good steady permanent jobs is what keeps the country going. By cutting these jobs from much needed public services meaning longer waiting times is not the answer.
This current government knows wages need to increase but they are choosing to do nothing about it. I have said before and sorry to say this government is anti-worker and anti-public servant.
Matty Ryan, Fairy Meadow