COUNTING THE COST
Pru Goward wants to replace 22 public housing units in lower Crown St with 60 new units. But her proposal is for fewer than 20 of these units to be public housing units.
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Over the last several decades, successive state governments have failed in their responsibility to build enough public housing to satisfy the need for this type of accommodation.
Their shortsightedness has led to increasing rental costs and more homelessness.
Why is the government not using this opportunity to boost public housing stock by creating, say, 30 or 40 new public housing units rather than fewer than there were in the old buildings?
Could the reason have anything to do with the site's prime location?
Bronwyn Bryceson, Mangerton
LOSING THE PLOT
While watching the ABC Question time on September 13 I saw a spectacle that put a shiver up my spine.
The new PM facing his party, all raised their arms in unison three times with him.
The PM has since apologised for words used during this exercise, but it did remind me of WW2, when Adolf Hitler gave his dreaded “Siege Heil “ salute, and everybody around him did the same.
In the end it became the norm, and all his believers saluted to him like that, wherever he went.
The PM might not have meant it, but to me it had a little bit of fascist behaviour about it.
Australia can do without that kind of rubbish.
I think this current Government mob in Canberra have lost the plot, and I wonder what will happen next.?
John Pronk, Wollongong
GAME, SET, MATCH
In response to the article ‘I don't cheat: Serena scolds chair umpire’ (Illawarra Mercury, Monday September 10, 2018) from the courts of the US Open to the hallways of Parliament, those who play the gender card and cry victim are often themselves the worst perpetrators of bullying.
Serena Williams and her army of feminist enablers can play the gender games as much as they like but everyone else who watched her behaviour at the tennis final knew exactly what they were seeing.
Williams carried on like a bully, shouting and wagging her finger at the umpire all because she was losing the match to her younger opponent.
Congratulations to Japan's Naomi Osaka the first Japanese tennis player to win the US Open tennis title.
Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow
A SHOCKING STATE
Visiting my mother at hospital, I was shocked with the state of grounds and quadrangles.
Windows covered in cobwebs, leaves and debis strewn everywhere.
Quite obviously no grounds maintained or window cleaning happening.
Pealing paint work.
Out of sight, out of mind I suppose.
Peter Tornaros Oak Flats
EDITOR’S NOTE: Reader contributed images of our beautiful region you are used to seeing here now run with the letters to the editor online on our website at illawarramercury.com.au.