This ban has affected the lives of hundreds of families who contribute upwards of over $2 million per annum to the council. This ban effectively means that millions of dollars worth of people’s assets have been rendered worthless.

 It was placed without any consultation to owners, who in some cases have just recently purchased, who were told by council employees that no such thing would occur.

 It has placed enormous stress on van owners who have also been told that they will be forced from the parks.

Graeme Smith, Glen Alpine

 When I have read, listened and viewed allthe other news sources, I then turntotheABC for the truth.

Graham Jones, Cordeaux Heights

How nice it was to see people, including cyclists, out enjoying the outdoors and roads this past weekend. 

How nice it was having cyclists speed enormously over the limit down around the corner as I left my driveway. How nice it was to be tailgated down the hill at 50km/h. How nice it was to watch as you sped up through roadworks and a 40km/h zone. How nice it was to meet again at the bottom on the mountain, as you swerved across traffic again, to turn around and begin the cycle again.

How awful it will be when you cause the death of yourself or be responsible for the death of another at your inability to use our roads.

These marathon ride events are taking place on the narrow and twisted Mount Keira Road. A road that shares not only cars, but trucks, current roadworks, not to mention a daily throng of pedestrians and residential homes. 

Respect the road rules and those who share it with you, before you host an event that puts other people’s lives at risk just so you can claim a new time record for your marathon ride. 

Ben Fernandez, Mount Keira

 I have been following with interest the reports in the media showing tradies, small business owners and farmers spending up big to take advantage of  Tony Abbott’s  largesse by way of a massive $20,000 tax break.

Tradies are buying new trucks, small business owners are stocking up big time, and the farmers are purchasing new farm equipment, all to the delight of retailers. Even Gerry Harvey is saying ‘‘thank you government’’ on the radio every five minutes. What a wonderful stimulus to our economy, you say.

Yes, sure is, and badly needed too. But wait, where are the dissenters? Even I am not complaining. $20,000 must seem like manna from heaven to those benefiting.

 So it is all right to give certain sections of the community $20,000 in 2015, but it appears it was terribly, terribly wrong in 2009 to give low income earners, including some farmers, a measly $900? Not so much as a murmur of dissent now. The hue and cry in 2009 was unbelievable. Hypocrisy I call it.

 David Taylor, Horsley

In view of Adrian Devlin’s letter claiming journalists and researchers have been paid to publish false information about climate change, could we be informed what Pope Francis received for his encyclical on climate change?

Ben Morris, Wollongong