LIVES DEPEND ON IT
Construction of the Berry to Bomaderry upgrade of the Princes Highway is excellent news for road safety. Too many people have been killed due to the inadequate road design of the Princes Highway: there have been 10 road fatalities in the past 18 months.
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A painted line on the road surface is the only protection from head-on crashes at present and that is grossly inadequate. To prevent these crashes, the solution is a physical barrier to separate traffic flowing in opposite directions. The Liberal state government is taking positive action to provide another long section of “divided dual carriageway” that will prevent fatal head-on crashes. This highway deserves Federal government funding so that more of the Princes Highway can be upgraded. Our lives depend on it.
Lyn Read, Figtree
NOT FAKE NEWS
The budget rewards the crooked banks and billionaire tax dodgers and cuts the spending of the ABC, the cop on the beat that exposes their crimes. And the extreme weather conditions caused by climate change mean communities depend on the ABC to report and monitor the disasters it is causing. The ABC is an essential service whose budget should be increased not cut.
Climate denier President Trump described the investigative journalists who disagreed with him the”enemy of the American people”. The $84 billion cut in the ABC’s budget to cripple the ABC is in lock step with this weird American President.
The flood of news and biased opinion from a monopoly owned press means the ABC’s investigative journalism is crucial. It’s programs like Four Corners, The Drum, Q&A and Insiders are platforms that stimulate discussion from diverse views. The aim of the cuts is to stifle this essential discussion.
The overwhelming support for the ABC totally rejects a conservative minority view, expressed by Pauline Hanson’s One Nation that the ABC should be privatised. It will be an important item on the agenda at the next election.
Reg Wilding, Wollongong
A DIFFERENT VIEW
Never thought I would say it but I think we need Donald Trump here, Out of pure frustration I have with our Government on both sides, I see no other solution to our problems.
Hospitals in crises, services disappearing, funding reduced from states and we still manage to give millions away to foreign countries. At least he is looking after his own. Wake up Australia. I will roll out the red carpet. Please help, Donald.
Peter Tornaros, Oak Flats
WEB WORDS EXTRA
FORGET ABOUT DREAM OF HIGH-SPEED RAIL, EXPERT SAYS
Rail transport in NSW and Australia is used as a political football and the ministers responsible at both state and federal levels so often show their disconnection from the travelling public that use not only rail but all forms of public transport. The state government can find train paths to move excavated material from Sydney to Port Kembla (and return empty) but claims it cannot find more train paths for passenger trains from the Illawarra.
With closure of two tracks between Redfern and Sydenham for the light rail more trains will be forced more trains (from East Hills / Glenfield and main south lines) on to the two remaining tracks used for the Illawarra and Waterfall / Cronulla lines therefore decreasing the possibility of any increase in passenger train paths on the Illawarra line. Public Transport functionality should be removed from political control. All State members of Parliament should have to use public transport to travel to and from Parliament house and the minister of transport have to travel backwards all the way and then there may be a chance of reversible seating on new intercity trains.
_ Warwick