FLOODS ‘WHEN’ NOT ‘IF’
Floods “when” not “if”.
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There must be an election coming.
We have had the flood study for five years .
Council have known for 25 years they sabotaged the watercourses at Bulli 100 years ago.
Council refused to clear the blocked watercourse at Franklyn Ave Bulli.
Council refuse to put an adequate overflow path over the 75cm pipe they put in in place of a 30 m wide water course in Trinity Row Bulli.
Council approved the Woolworths site, the aged care site in hospital road which all speed water into the sabotaged watercourse in Franklyn Ave which guarantees Bulli High will be decimated again.
As someone says not “if” but “when”.
Ken Mc Dougall, Bulli
PROTEST LIBRARY CUTS
I was horrified to learn of the State Liberal Government’s action in slashing $5 million from public library funding.
The funding for public libraries is now at its lowest in 20 years.
In addition, the entire grant’s program that was dedicated to build public library infrastructure across NSW has also been wiped out.
Public libraries play an important role in providing people of all ages with free access not only to books and CDs, but to many other forms of learning including teaching computer usage for people of all ages.
I urge all library users and book club members to contact your local State Members of Parliament, strongly protesting at these savage cuts to our library services, and demanding the funding be reinstated immediately.
Joan Vinton, Shellharbour
CORRECTING THE RECORD
I refer to the story in the story in the Illawarra Mercury headlined "Flashbacks of a wild night" (Wednesday, August 15, 2018).
In the story Cr Janice Kershaw refers to a man who lost his life after his car was washed into a culvert off Brompton Road Bellambi as driving a taxi.
He was actually a private citizen attempting to pick someone up from the Bellambi Railway Station,not a taxi driver as Cr Kershaw states.
Keith Norris, Bellambi
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Well, here we go again.
Another squabble for the Prime Ministership, this time between an incumbent leader with demonstrated widespread constituency dissatisfaction, and Peter Dutton, an appointed Cabinet minister that has no credence as an popularly elected official.
Parliament House seems to be just a closed clubhouse of entitled parasites climbing over each others back with no interest in our country's welfare or the wishes of it's people.
There is no way of properly gauging the electorate's approval of Dutton's challenge for the Prime Ministership or his suitability for the job, but nobody seems to care what the people think.
Terry Sugden, Kiama Downs
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