Why do they exist anyway?

At this time every year, we are exposed to these ridiculous antics which do nothing but embarrass those involved, their clubs, the fans, the public and the sport as a whole.

This behaviour only helps to throw a shadow over the future of the sport.

I used to be a supporter. Not anymore.

Steven Thomas, Shellharbour

They say you often don’t miss something until it’s gone.  

Let’s hope that this will never be the case with the Wollongong Botanic Garden.  

It is one of the last existing places in this city where you can go, roam around and feel complete serenity, be surrounded by greenery and flowers everywhere you look, and sense none of the surrounding suburbia.

Can you also imagine the iconic Gleniffer Brae surrounded by ugly, multi-story, glass-house structures?

Can you recall just six years ago Wollongong Council , true to form - ( remember the town hall that had to be pulled down), wanted to shed itself of the responsibility for maintaining Gleniffer Brae and settled on a deal with the University of Wollongong, whereby the university intended to dwarf Gleniffer Brae’s presence on the site by surrounding it with University buildings, installing a large car-parking area, and running a university  24/7-thoroughfare through the top area of the Botanic Garden.

On that occasion residents managed to stop that destruction.  

Then the university feigned a little dummy-spit and told the public, in no uncertain terms, it had lost all interest in ever getting hold of Gleniffer Brae and usurping the city’s Conservatorium of Music operations.

Six years later we see the whole sorry business start over again through Wollongong Council’s Master Plan for the Botanic Garden.  

I believe that the university has already done a deal with council to take over Koorabong Oval, which borders Gleniffer Brae and the Garden, and has contributed $100,000 towards the cost of the Master Plan.

I can now see the university, with its voracious appetite for Wollongong land, salivating at the mouth and already planning how it will, not just redevelop the Gleniffer Brae precinct, but also gain a strategic toe-hold into the garden’s land to further expand its empire.

 Richard Burnett, Wollongong

So we have all gone out and bought a big screen 4k tv and the best Sky/WIN new channel can do is broadcast in the lowest resolution they could find.

Shame I threw away my old  tv.

With regard to new airline in the Illawarra, I hope Shellharbour council receives any costs from the operators on a weekly basis so the ratepayers do not have to wear the blowout that the other carrier cost the council.

Hans Prychocki, Corrimal

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