Is this a selling trick?
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The font and spacing now in The Border Mail is awful and not easy to read.
My first thought was that it was a catalogue.
Is this creation of more white space and larger font to add more pages, tricking us into thinking we are getting more for our money?
I could analyse it part by part but I won’t. Suffice to say the whole format did not set the scene for my usual pleasant morning read.
How about just adding more local content?
On the plus side the puzzles were easier to read.
WENDY COOKSEY,
Wodonga
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.
W. FLETCHER,
East Albury
Future health at risk
WE should not be surprised that on the same week Tony Abbott approved a huge foreign-owned coal mine on prime agricultural land in north west NSW (against the wishes of his agriculture minister), he launched a campaign to restrict renewable energy generation by roof-top solar and wind farms.
When coal prices are plummeting and the world is starting to wean itself off such a dirty energy source , our government is going in the opposite direction.
In fact it's stuck in the 1950s.
Such voodoo policies can only be explained by the fact that the government is tied to the powerful vested interests of big coal and the Australian Mineral Council.
As the old saying goes, "He who pays the piper calls the tune".
Such attitudes to renewable energy and clean energy have placed Australia on the wrong side of history.
These issues are above party politics. It concerns us all now.
By backing coal, Tony Abbott is risking our children's health and our whole economic and environmental future .
The refusal of the government to seriously recognise and act on climate change is an embarrassment.
DAVID SLOANE,
Corowa
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.
It’s like a tooth ache; not funny.
Try Footrot Flats, now that is funny.