McCABE PARK MASTERPLAN
Every time I drive past Illawarra's "potato" (Ed's note: We believe this to be a reference McCabe Park) I feel embarrassed.
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Sometimes It can be a disadvantage when you live somewhere for a long time.
I can remember playing Rugby at McCabe Park on a Saturday afternoon and at night watching professional cyclists race around a velodrome.
A concert by Johnny Young at the Northern end attracted many families at the time and a tennis club was always well supported.
Seeing Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall play there was a highlight.
A raffle designed to raise funds for a new pool, in the park never materialised.
Was it announced publicly where this money went?
A former mayor had suggested the area have shops and other amenities established around its perimeter. But we still have the monolith serving what?
The time has arrived to enhance our civic pride and convert the area into something more worthwhile than a slippery dip.
Barry Brown, Dapto
MOST DIVISIVE POLLIE
There is no doubt Bill Shorten has proven to be the most divisive politician that this country has seen since WW2, possibly longer.
He deliberately ignited latent envy and hate through his insidious strategies of "envy and division" and convinced many not so well-off Australians and some who felt they were not well off, that anyone they perceived as having more as them were part of "the big end of town".
Sadly, he with some help from his friends had a degree of success.
We are continuing to see the envy, the greed, and the hate he engendered in so many still bubbling to the surface even after he and his divisive policies have been rejected at the ballot box, and now by his own party
Since the election this greed and envy-engendering has been continued by some affluent commentators on social media platforms.
Australians who didn't vote Labor have even been branded as turds by one of these pathetic individuals.
They, like Shorten have convinced many Australians that it is their right to share in other people's wealth, even if that wealth is the fixed retirement income of elderly people. How sad.
Envy is a normal emotion if it is only occasional and fleeting, but when it becomes obsessive and hateful it is a soul-destroying sickness.
Richard Burnett, Wollongong
MATTER OF POLICIES
Thank you John for replying to my tongue in cheek and very cheeky comment that you should retire gracefully.
How ridiculous to say such a thing to a Viking Longhorn Warrior.
I deserve all I get.
I do enjoy some of your letters John, especially regarding the Israel Folau fiasco.
Regarding the election results, it was quite simple. Policies.
If the two major parties had reversed their policies, the LNP would have been thrown out on their ear.
The Labor policies lost them the election. Simple.
Alf Green, Keiraville