SHAME ON COUNCIL
This is disgusting behaviour from Wollongong City Council. What the public do not realise is that Wollongong City Council has employed a "shooter" with a licence granted from National Parks and Wildlife to shoot these native animals. One employee even drowned one of the ducks and considering ducks are water birds and can hold their breath for a long time anyway, well you can imagine how long that took and how distressing it was for the animal.
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They even put a wetting agent in the pool so the ducks would sink and eventually drown, luckily this did not work. How blatantly cruel and abhorrent. The solution to this is very simple, it's called hail netting. It works efficiently if erected correctly and is cheap. These animals are native and every effort should be made to save them. Next time, Wollongong City Council call a wildlife group and get expert advice. Shame on you Gordon Bradbury for allowing this to happen.
Lyn Collard, Kanahooka
SAFE AND SOUND
The (expletive) that euthanized the ducks, will probably not like this story. About five weeks ago I was on my way to Tarrawanna to get some bread. I stopped at the T intersection of Margaret Street and foothills road. I waited for cars going North on Foothills road, all of a sudden I noticed movement on the footpath and lo and behold was a family of ducks, mum dad and about a dozen chicks. So I drove onto foothills road and blocked the left turn to the north.
Ma and Pa duck were waiting near the edge of the foot path. The little ones jumped onto the road from the footpath and the stayed there till all the babies were on the road. Some landed on their heads some landed on their feet, with Ma and Pa waiting patiently for all to fall, (jump) I stopped a couple of cars heading South so they could cross the road.
The vehicles behind me were waiting patiently. The ducks did not have to try and get up onto the footpath, because there was a pram space on the Eastern curb. There were no dogs around so, ma n pa did not have to duck for cover (pardon the pun) but I meant it. The ducks were now on their way down Brian St, so I went around the roundabout and pulled up. Once the ducks were in the Balgownie soccer oval I departed the scene. Knowing full well that the Northern killers would not get them.
D Longbottom, Balgownie
A CHANGE IN THINKING
The demographic of the votes on same-sex marriage confounded both advocates and opponents. Gone is the thinking that because you live in a Liberal electorate you must be a traditional conservative or if you are in a Labor electorate you must be a socialist. Most of the Western Sydney Labor electorates that voted no are also essentially the same Labor seats that voted no in the 1999 referendum. In fact, 42 out of 67 Labor electorates in 1999 voted against a republic and yet all Labor members of Parliament supported a republic then and continue to do so today. In fact the Western Sydney Labor MPs seem to be quite adamant that their views are superior to the views of their electorate.
Of course, Labor thinks the people in their electorates don’t have a choice but to vote for them. The Liberals made the same mistake, and now look at what is happening with the rise of both the Bernardi and Hanson parties. Politicians are called politicians because they naturally engage in politics but they are also parliamentarians which means that their priority is to govern on behalf of and for the people. This is why on the ballot paper for lower house seats it is not the name of the political party but the name of the individual that one votes for. This means that the individual’s loyalty is to the people who voted for him or her before that of the party. This is called representative government but what we have is anything but.
Philip Benwell, National Chair, Australian Monarchist League
