So much for progress
Picture it. You walk into the Wodonga Post Office to pay a bill, stamped and addressed to one of their PO Box numbers. You are told no, it has to go into 'The Bag' and be sent off to the great sorting house, then put into the Wodonga bag.
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When it arrives back, some four to six days later, it can be safely put into the correct box. But if you want to pay an extra 50c a clever little person will be able to find the right box and bingo, all done.
What an amazing improvement in modern service.
Anne Russell, Wodonga
It’s hard to keep up
What happened to freedom of speech?
The peccadilloes of promising young male tennis players are soon forgotten, but something said by an aged icon of Australian female tennis seems to have everyone sharpening their knives, to have a go at her.
I remember when Albury’s young Margaret Smith went to Wimbledon for the first time in 1961.
I was living and working in Scotland at the time and I told everyone I knew in Edinburgh that she was a future world tennis star.
My concern about same-sex marriage is what does the government intend to do?
It’s hard for us oldies to keep track of what is going on in this country.
P.L. Strachan, Thurgoona
Indigo’s savvy move
Indigo Shire councillors James Trenery and Bernard Gaffney have criticised the recent decision to divest from fossil fuels (‘Council goes sustainable, risks finances’, The Border Mail, June 1), with Cr Gaffney’s objection being based on the argument that council could make more money from fossil fuels than other types of investment, and Cr Trenery’s objection being on the basis that the decision is “ideological”.
First to Cr Gaffney’s point. Fossil fuels are fast becoming stranded assets so it makes sense to move away from them. It’s a worldwide trend that our council is sensibly following.
To Cr Trenery’s concern that the decision is “ideological” and by implication that there’s something wrong with ideology. The ideology he refers to is a science-based one that in essence says that we shouldn’t use community resources to prop up an industry or a system that is destroying our way of life.
Until Cr Trenery is able to make a convincing argument that fossil fuels have some benefit to the community then I for one am very happy with the Indigo Council’s decision.
Graham Parton, Stanley
We are all powerful
It can be hard to stay positive when there is so much bad news in the media, but I want to remind you that we can all make a difference.
At Red Cross we will never give up on the power of people helping people and bringing more good to the world.
We see good in the resilience of communities in NSW and Queensland, as people recover from losing their homes and businesses after Cyclone Debbie.
We see it in the volunteers who helped people cope in Melbourne, in the aftermath of the Bourke Street incident. We also see it in places like Indonesia, where access to clean water and better nutrition is helping villagers secure a healthier future for their children.
This June we’re asking you to bring more good to the world by helping a neighbour, volunteering or even doing a random act of kindness for a stranger.
A tax-deductible donation to Red Cross this month will also bring more good to the world.
Through our programs, people who are lonely will receive a daily phone call, struggling families will be able to access nutritious food and those separated from loved ones in war can be reunited.