The current plight of dairy farmers is a rural disaster and a complete injustice.

Have we become so mean spirited that we now kick our very own in the stomach for the sake of a miserly couple of dollars?

Most consumers could have seen the Coles/Woolworths milk pricing war was unsustainable and would lead to this shambles, as will be the case with other products from local producers.

We happily pay $4.50 for a cup of coffee or $5 for a schooner of beer but penny-pinch milk at $1.00 per litre, unfairly sending our dairy farmers broke.

This is not the Australian way. 

These blokes and many wives work from dawn to dark, seven days a week in all weather.

Not exactly a cosy workplace – give them a go. Walk past cheap milk.

WHEN Malcolm called the election my biggest fear was there would be endless footage of pollies and wannabees in “come hit me jackets” mouthing clever little sound bites but I was wrong, there’s worse. 

Now we have head shot, after head shot of candidates, speaking directly to camera with two totally irrelevant people in the background intermittently looking bored, distracted but occasionally nodding in support of the mouthpiece. 

What purpose do these `noddies’ serve? 

Is the candidate subtly trying to imply “look I’ve got two friends who believe my waffle” or are they there to ensure the speaker doesn’t stray from the party line?

Can the various media advisors please come up with a better strategy, except of course for Richard Di Natale’s who recently had interchangeable noddies who, in a cleverly choreographed soft shoe shuffle, alternately took the lead. 

They smoothly slid around, and between, each other with military precision which could have done credit to the director of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Come on guys we’ve got to watch this rubbish for another few weeks, let’s try some originality with your photo ops.

GOOD on Albury City Council in sourcing the necessary funding to assist in the installation of an appropriate closed circuit television (CCTV) system for the central business district.

Unfortunately, we are to receive $242,000 less than Wagga Wagga Council did for its CCTV system, which was put in place a while ago.

Wagga received $500,000 from the federal government, $100,000 from the NSW government under the Community Program, $90,000 from Safer Streets/Suburbs Taxis Contribution and $2000 from Wagga CBD businesses.

So, contradictorily to what our local state member Greg Aplin has stated, ie that there is no funding for Albury CCTV, there was funding for Wagga council to the tune of $100,000.

Can anyone from Albury council please explain the discrepancies or why Albury will receive less assistance than Wagga council, and why ratepayers are disadvantaged to the tune of $242,000?