Funny as a toothache
CONGRATS to Steve Jones (The Border Mail, July 10) on his comments in Your View about this so-called Wumo comic strip.
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It’s like a tooth ache; not funny.
Try Footrot Flats, now that is funny.
GREGG COX,
Albury
Minor players hold power
I OFTEN wonder how the Australian public could have voted the LNP into power, you would think they would have learned by now.
Unfortunately, the opposition was not much better – time for a change.
Let us give more power to Independents and minor parties, then we just might approach something called "democracy".
As for the LNP's approach to renewable energy, I have only a few of words to describe it – "crass stupidity" comes to mind plus "vested interests".
I have used (when I was living in the Mallee) both wind and solar power.
With an adequate storage system we had no power bills whatsoever, which is what the LNP is afraid of.
But it will come to that, plus electric cars, leaving the oil producers to supply heavy trucking and train haulage.
Why the obstinate resistance from this government?
Talk about living in the past
DEREK ROBINSON,
Wodonga
Life about to get harder
2017 will see the Federal government implement some massive changes that will make life ever so more difficult for those who can afford it least.
Under Labor, low income earners were being taxed at 15 per cent on superannuation contributions – the same as high income earners.
However this meant low income earners were paying higher tax rates than that applied to their normal income so Labor introduced a $500 supplement for low income earners.
The Abbott government and the Palmer Party did a deal that scraps this supplement just after the next election.
Also to be cut are the school kids' bonus for low income families, $422 for primary and $842 for secondary school children just after the next federal election.
Pensions and pensioners will cop similar hits from next year; the poor will pay for economic mismanagement.
Multinationals and the wealthy will continue to avoid paying a fair share of the tax system.
Labor and Liberal/National are equally guilty of our long term economic status.
The adoption of globalisation economics is going to hurt more and more, the sell-off of our national ownership is lining the huge bank accounts of the few at the peril of average and poor Australians.
Real jobs are disappearing, overseas (457 work visas) increasing and work for the dole is about growing slave labour for the wealthy to exploit.
This slave labour creation reduces government incomes, less tax revenue and weakens the economy further.
ISIS and asylum seekers are not our enemies – distractions, propaganda, lies and deceit are!
ALAN J. LAPPIN,
Boorhaman North
Marriage definition clear
THE well respected Oxford Dictionary defines marriage in these terms:
Marriage: Act, ceremony, or a procedure by which a man and a woman are legally united for the purpose of living together.
The definition is clear, has stood the test of time, is well established and understood.
If groups of people supporting other forms of relationships want a name for them, come up with your own, but leave the word “marriage” out of it, as it does not fit.
The advantage of having both a mother and a father in the home are obvious as children benefit immensely from both the male and female input of their parents.
I am surprised at the stance of some in the clergy who are supporting a change to legislate for same sex unions to be deemed marriages.
As one who is familiar with the Christian scriptures, I have yet to find any evidence of such support in the Bible.
As I see it, the move to change the marriage act to include same sex unions as marriages is flawed, and to those who are proposing the change, your proposition is at odds with public sentiment.