Horse racing should be next.

After having been in the industry for some 20 years, you have to ask why horses race at two years of age.

Big in body but vastly underdeveloped in bone density – a 90 percent failure rate in life expectancy for these horses,.

Just look at the lucrative horse dogging industry – for those unaware it is where horses are slaughtered for both human and pet food consumption.

There will be a glut now greyhound racing is finished.

No horse racing abuse will not stop because too much money is involved, this is fact not fiction.

Peter Tornaros, Oak Flats

The jobs been done on Millers Point.

Millers Point: where residents were transferred from their salubrious surroundings to cellular group accommodation in high-rise apartments by the government.

Millers Point the aftershock: the Airbnb hotspot where vacated homes are being rented out for as much as $650 a night.

Millers Point: Created by the Baird materialistic government, masters of economic inequality.

John Macleod, Berry

'Privatisation' means different things to different people.

Many users of Medicare have to pay a co­payment before they are seen by a doctor.

While this payment to a GP may be minor in some peoples' eyes, if you are on a tight budget this additional cost may mean the difference between being able to access medical treatment or having to forego it.

And this is only the beginning.

If a patient needs specialist treatment, these co­payments become far larger, and so a far heavier impost on peoples' budgets.

Whilst this may not be what politicians call privatisation, it certainly is to people who are excluded from Australia's supposedly 'universal' health care system.

If Medicare patients have to pay a co­payment to the GP before they can access other services, such as radiology and pathology, the bulk billing payments by the government to providers may be increasing without the actual number of patients being able to access a bulk billing GP has not.

Adrian Devlin would do well to research the fraud and corruption that occurs in Medicare.

It is currently running in excess of $5 billion dollars a year.

It is this fraud that makes Medicare expensive, and it could be prevented if the government funded adequate compliance resources.

Ben Morris, Wollongong

On May 5 I wrote to Wollongong City Council councillors and general manager expressing concern the projected cost to complete all the items listed in the Blue Mile Master Plan is likely to blow out to over $100 million.

I understand a follow up request from the Lord Mayor and at least one councillor has forwarded to council to provide clarification of the claim covering costs to date, work in progress and estimates to completed all the remaining listed items.

I would have thought the council would have the costs readily available as the Blue Mile is a major project.

With over two months to provide the figures I am concerned that WCC has no idea of what the project will cost.

Or is it WCC does not want to provide the figures hoping the Council will merge and the request can be ignored?

Ian Young, East Corrimal