I get it, the Greens will not countenance either as their beloved, but threatened ‘South African Trotting Ducks’ habitate, or any other floral or fauna considered under threat, will be terminally affected.

D J Preece, North Wollongong

Where was I 50 years ago today? I was a much younger PMG linesman with a ladder up a telephone pole installing new phone services to homes in the friendliest suburb of Sydney, Waterfall.

I was running out aerial copper cable to the customers premises using the the shortest route possible, making sure that only the minimum amount of the black aerial cable was visible so that the installation didn't detract from the appearance of the property.

Fifty years later NBN has a different linesman replacing my work with another aerial copper cable, only this time it's a coaxial cable, passed off by NBN as the new high speed technology providing all Waterfall residents with the best there is in service and performance.

Mind you, NBN installers ran a cable all the way across the front of my son's house for 30 meters while the nearest part of his house is only 10 meters away from the pole.

Clearly the lazy NBN staff spent more time in the Waterfall fish and chip shop than they did planning this unsightly aerial  cable  installation.

The part that really gets up my nose is that NBN management deemed Waterfall as a financially worthless investment for optical  fiber cable as not enough people lived there, they ignore the fact that the exchange is already served by optical fiber cable.

They could have easily provided fibre-to-the-home.  Copper cable and poor service is alive and well at Waterfall.

So much for Scott Morrison's false claims that his government is there to do its best for all Australians. “Clever Country” be stuffed.

Dave Cox, Corrimal

Before  the “Old tramway” was renovated to a new world-class walkway/cycle path, we used to have a few spaces for disabled parking at the Continental Pool.

Unfortunately these spaces were used and abused by as much as 50 per cent of these so called disabled users, who then walked to the pool and walked as much as 50 laps up and down in the water.

It used to infuriate me to no end, and when a true disabled person came to park there, all spaces where occupied.

Now with the new tramway all renovated, the disabled spaces near the pool were removed,and that to me seem somewhat unfair to the genuine disabled swimmers.

I would like to see these spaces returned, and to qualify for parking there, a special permit, other than a disabled sticker could be supplied for them, by a special council committee.

I often see cars with disabled stickers abusing these special spaces all over town, shopping centres etc as well.

I will attend a meeting discuss options for fairness for the “real  disabled” swimmers who want to use our Continental pool.

John Pronk BM, Wollongong