Voices are at last being raised in calls for an inquiry into the Murray-Basin Authority which is the principal government agency in charge of managing the Murray-Darling Basin's water resources in the National interest.

Has the minister for regional water been asleep at the wheel when concerns about the transparency of the deal and its administration has been under a cloud for years and will the spectacle of those thousands of dead fish at last rattle the cage?

No river system can survive in this country, when according to  information available, 3780 gigalitres of water of water is being taken from the system by irrigators upstream.

That's a hell of a lot of water in the best of times but add to that a long and ongoing drought and you have a recipe for the disaster that has just occurred.    

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark and I don't mean the stink of rotting fish.    

Denise Meredith, Kanahooka

The hypocrisy of Bill Shorten and Labor knows no bounds.

For too many years we have seen the looney left, many from the Labor side along with a section from the Aboriginal community, howling down and trying to change to date of Australia Day.

We now see the Prime Minister Scott Morrison come out and insist that local government hold Australian Day celebrations on Australia Day, and that an appropriate dress code be set.

As unbelievable as it is, Bill Shorten has jumped on this to accuse the PM of politicising Australia Day.  

Where has this man been during the past few years?

He can only be acting hypocritically, or has been asleep on the job?

Richard Burnett, Wollongong

The 74-year-old Danny Lim is no danger to anyone

He’s a National Living Treasure.

Doug Steley, Heyfield

In his article ‘Mind Matters’ Professor John Malouf notes the damage that procrastination has caused.

True it has been labelled ‘the thief of time’.

But the worst damage has been caused by the Catholic church.   

It burned philosophers at the stake and stretched non-believers on the rack.

It imprisoned Galileo for stating that the sun not the earth was at the centre of the universe.

Halting scientific discovery for decades.

The Catholic church continues to challenge science.

It denies climate change and that it is not biology that causes sexual difference.

Professor it is not procrastination but a medieval dogma that we need to challenge.           

Reg Wilding, Wollongong

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