Expectations dashed
I signed up for the NBN at least two weeks ago and a modem was sent to me in the mail. I connected it up with great expectations, only to have my hopes dashed.
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The phone has never worked but thankfully the internet has, I had no phone that would work, so upon going to the Telstra shop in Dean Street, I was handed a phone and was told it was NBN compatible. I don’t understand why that wasn’t supplied in the first place. It’s a chaotic, ad hoc process that does not impress me at all.
After phoning the help line with Telstra/NBNCO several times, I have hung on the line for long periods to hopefully get the phone to work but with no joy so far.
Added to that, I’ve had to converse with people in other countries, whose English is poor and they speak rapidly so I find it difficult to understand what they are saying.
So far I feel it’s not ready to be commissioned as my impression is that it’s a mess.
Come on Telstra, you can do much better than this. And why not have some local Australian consultants to talk to, please.
It’s a fizzer so far in my book.
Graeme Scott, Albury
Jobs for disabled
People with disability don’t get the same opportunities to earn – even when they have great skills and attitude.
Released this week by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), the 2016 Poverty Report shows an estimated 2.9 million people or 13.3 per cent of all people are living below the internationally accepted poverty line.
And while the national incidence of poverty for all adults is 12.9 per cent, the incidence for people with disability is as high as 17.8 per cent for people with disability that includes a core limitation and 15.8 per cent for all others with disability.
As chief executive of the Australian Network on Disability, I strongly believe the key to change is increased opportunity.
We need to break the link between disability and poverty and the way to do that is through work.
Businesses that employ people with disability benefit in many ways. Employees have fewer workplace accidents, make fewer Workers’ Compensation claims, take fewer days off and have longer tenure than employees without disability.
I strongly encourage employers from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, both large and small, to open up their jobs to people with disability. Together we can make a difference.
Suzanne Colbert AM, CEO, Australian Network on Disability
Reason in debate
I would like to congratulate The Border Mail for publishing such a well written, factually correct, non-emotional article on the Adler Lever Action Shotgun.
In today’s environment of nonsensical political point-scoring by both sides of federal Pariament by politicians who have little knowledge of this topic, Samara McPhedran was a breath of fresh air.
You have potentially renewed my faith in the media. Well done.
Gordon Graham, East Albury
Cut the welfare
Apparently 70 per cent of people arrested for being under the influence of ice are found to be on welfare payments. What a huge waste of taxpayer money.
Perhaps the government could reduce these massive costs by installing ice dispensing machines within all Centrelink offices and collect the funds to return to us taxpayers.
Gerry Reed, Rutherglen
Letter of the week
The winner of this week’s Letter of the Week is David Sloane of Corowa. Collect your prize at the offices of The Border Mail at 1 McKoy Street in Wodonga. Submit your letters via email by sending to letters@bordermail.com.au.