HOMES FOR HOMELESS
Labor and the Greens intend introducing another big new tax after they win the next election. Their new tax will be called an "empty homes levy".
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The concept is to force owners of unoccupied residences to make their homes available for social housing and for homeless people.
I have a better suggestion. Anyone with an unoccupied bedroom in their home should be forced to make it available to homeless people.
Census information shows the number of people living in each residence and the number of bedrooms in the house, and there are thousands of unused bedrooms in Sydney and Wollongong.
These are houses right here, ready to move into.
That will house the homeless and all those people on the social housing waiting list.
All without introducing yet another Labor/Greens tax.
Lyn Read, Figtree
HARD TO BELIEVE
In response to the letter by Doug Steley, `Taking Responsibliity' (Illawarra Mercury, Monday March 4, 2019), your entitled to your opinion Mr Steley, but things are not necessarily as they seem.
How could any jury not be strongly influenced by the avalanche of media bias against Cardinal Pell for nearly two decades?
No one can apologise and/or excuse crimes against children and the vulnerable.
However it is hard to believe the crimes for which Pell has been found guilty, could have been committed under the circumstances specified.
Adrian Devlin, Fairy Meadow
`LIPSTICK ON A PIG'
Scomo’s minders appear to have concluded his Donald Trump impersonation has not had the hoped for effect. Clearly it was just “bread and circus” to draw the attention away from the very obvious lack of policies within a desperate and divided Coalition.
Gone is Scomo’s Donald Trump baseball cap phase and in its place, the almost evangelical zeal of an aluminium sheeting salesman being exhibited by our PM.
Suddenly Scomo would have the Australian public believe he has become a “go to PM”.
A strong leader whose virility and vision almost edges out that of his his mentor “The Kirribilli Commando”, John Winston Howard AKA as “the Man of Steel”.
This title having been bestowed upon Howard by George W Bush for selling the Australian parliament a “bill of goods based upon known lies” which has resulted in Australia’s longest war.
Despite the attempted PR conversion of Scomo on the road to Damascus (in his case Canberra) most Australians know of the adage “even if you put lipstick on your pig, it is still just a pig”.
Hopefully, come the next federal election they vote accordingly.
Barry Swan, Balgownie
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