GET OFF OUR BEACHES
We were the original beach care Illawarra crew who battled the councils green-fueled extremism which destroyed 14 beaches with Woonona totally destroyed and unusable.
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With city beach being closed off to users.
Towradgi to fairy meadow with four m high vertical dunes to the waters edge.
Lifeguards unable to get rescue equipment onto the beach all because a green element in the burecracy wanted to "cover every grain of sand" with scrub that ran against all the available technical instructions from the state government.
About $500,000 later which had to be spent, $160,000 on Woonona alone to remove the mess, we have angry Gordon Bradbury ranting the council are planting again at Woonona.
The people don’t trust them and are cutting the offensive plants wiping out the view of surf they had for 100 years.
Get off our beaches. Show respect for the people who cherish their beaches.
Do the job you are all handsomely paid for and stop antagonising the ratepayers with your time wasting expensive negativity.
Ken McDougall, Bulli
TIME TO STAND UP
We all hear the reports that it costs the average taxpayer $ 100,000 per year to keep a prisoner in jail, what with three meals per day, prison uniform and boots , sand shoes and showers plus computers and television plus Ipads. We can understand how it all mounts up.
If a person commits a heinous crime and there is no doubt of their guilt then why do we the taxpayer have to bear the burden of this expense when these crimes are also, at times, repeat offenders.
Even if first offences, look at their rap sheets and many have petty crimes as long as your arm.
We, the people, need to have a referendum and vote on whether our society should introduce the death penalty for these crimes and stop letting them get away with murder, rape and other crimes too brutal and heinous to outline.
We've become a bunch of softies and won't stand up and be counted, even challenging some stray ratbag in the street assaulting other people.
We would rather hide our heads in the sand like an ostrich or convince ourselves it has nothing to do with us?
Well it has and now is the time so look outside the square and stand up and be counted.
T Dunn, West Wollongong
A DISASTROUS STATE
It is a disaster before any disaster even comes along.
Post code 2518 has been blacklisted by many of Australia's Insurance companies who are now refusing to insure many properties in this postcode because Local Government and Climate Change Authorities have declared them as being in a Flood Prone or Rising Ocean Prone Area.
Being on a pension, I now have the choice of paying $2600 to insure my home, or dump Insurance cover altogether. No assistance for pensioners is made available by any State, Federal, or Local Government to help meet this massive insurance premium.
So you can now add home insurance to health insurance to comprehensive car Insurance premiums that pensioners have to dump. Advance Australia? Pig’s arse.
Dave Cox, Corrimal