As someone aged 59, with underlying health issues, I'd just like to say thank you Australia for a reasonably good life. Though becoming disabled in 2000, living under the poverty line and at times, homeless, I've still had a reasonably good life. With growing numbers of infections & deaths of young & old, the impossibility of buying food from under-stocked shops without receiving an exposure site warning, and the lack of political will to stop COVID and its variants coming into the country, and the debacle it's creating, l don't hold much hope for us all.
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I can only hope that In the future, (by then) President McGowan (WA), takes over what will be the wastelands of Eastern Australia and with the wisdom and foresight he has shown, restores it to the safe and prosperous lands it should be.
Dave Schmidt, Towradgi
Australia's solar and wind key
Richard Burnett (Mercury letters, 10/1) overlooks that Europe, with its particular energy dilemmas, has a very different climate and geography to Australia with its world-class, and very under-utilised, solar and wind resources. Thanks partly to massive Chinese investment in solar and wind technology, the cost of deploying solar and wind power has plummeted, paving the way for Australia to become a renewable energy super-power. What holds us back is an irrational nostalgia for the past, fear of change minus runway climate change, climate denial, and an associated lack of political will.
Jim Allen, Panorama, SA
Casual teachers cop it
As schools return in the face of Omicron, I particularly feel sorry for the casual teachers. After not having a chance to earn a wage since early December, they will be called to replace teachers in schools impacted by COVID. Catch Omicron at work and be forced into unpaid isolation for a week. That means, like every other year, casual teachers won't be paid anything between mid December until March. All for a wage which rarely exceeds $50k per annum. Yet people still wonder why schools can't find casual teachers and students go unsupervised. Really?
Greg Adamson, Griffith
Pink cricket Test
The Sydney cricket test and pink day supporting the Jane McGrath Foundation for breast cancer is a wonderful thing. The donations have helped many women through tough times and will continue to do so for many years, especially with the $80 million dollars 'donated' by the Morrison Govt. Why is the same thing not done for all cancers including men's cancers?. Imagine the uproar and cries of discrimination etc if the $80 million dollars and donations were only for prostate cancer....which I believe is the biggest killer for men.
Amanda Bond, Wollongong
