After the resurfacing job has been complete we have gone from what was a nice road of tar to now rocks and gravel.

I have contacted the council a number of times to complain about the issue of loose stones flicking up hitting our new cars only to be told a number of times that it is the way the roads are getting redone now.

What a joke paying high land rates and going from tar to rocks and gravel.

We have brand new cars getting damaged by loose stones hitting them and taking paint off. Also a lot of speeding cars going way too fast and doing burnouts in it.

I am writing to you to tell you how much of a joke Wollongong City Council is and how they spend your money. 

Kevin Barron, Dapto

In response to the letter by John Macleod "Don’t blame me" (Illawarra Mercury, Saturday, June 17, 2017) if there was a gold medal for bashing conservatives and avoiding responsibility then Mr Macleod would win by a country mile. However, I will attempt to make a reply with the following three points.

(1) Between 2007-2013, Labor implemented a number of policies that were mismanaged with huge cost blowouts. They lied about being fiscally responsible and left office with a huge national debt that the Abbott Liberal government inherited.

To this day our debt has gone up 150 percent to reach over $500 billion, because the Senate controlled by Labor and the Greens want government spending to increase and debt to rise. Accountability and socialism are incompatible!

(2) In the recent UN Climate Change agreement in Paris both China and Pakistan are free to increase their emissions. China is building 45 clean coal-fired power stations, while coal rich Australia "stupidly" closes them down.

(3) For many years the socialist-engineers of the left have working to destroy marriage and break up families which has led to numerous marital and social problems while children have suffered.

The social-engineers continue to advance their destructive cause while our society is becoming more unstable, increasingly violent, lawless and selfish.

Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow

Weird, powerful warning’, (Illawarra Mercury, Wednesday June 21) identified the potential dangers for Australia with the election of Donald Trump.

Australians generally have had an affinity with the people of America.

As a consequence; we have politely refrained from being overly critical when Americans do things which appear to defy logic.

Such as putting what could best be described as a “loose cannon” into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500. Consequently, Australia for its own self security would be wise not to continue along the well-trodden path of appearing to be the 51st US State.

Unfortunately, this has been Australia’s international image since Bob Menzies in 1964 placed Australian military personnel under the control of the US during the Vietnam war.

An image reinforced by John Howard when in 2003 he led Australia into becoming part of “The Coalition of the Willing” and the illegal invasion of Iraq.

Both conflicts have resulted in far too many Australian service personnel paying the ultimate sacrifice.

With “Dodgy Donald” now in control of the “Doomsday Button”; common sense and possibly, survival of Planet Earth demand our government tread very carefully if any “Hawkish Demands” are made of it by the Trump White House.

 Barry Swan, Balgownie