The forced closure of the parachuting facility, lack of runway and lighting maintenance is a disgrace. The whole area will probably be sold to a developer.

This would be an excellent site for a pilot training facility.

It features two strong runways and the flying conditions are in a perfect location for this growing area.

Federation Council should look to the future and speak with Qantas and others to take advantage of this opportunity.

Some time ago when Councillor Tom O'Brien was mayor (or shire president) council lost an application for such a proposal. Let's have another go!

While I agree with Craig Anderson that David Warner’s reaction to a grubby sledge has made things worse for him in South Africa, I can’t help but think the Australians are a bit sooky when it comes to this stuff.

As a country that’s always been pretty good at dishing it out, are we not able to take it?

I agree that the South African sledge of Warner’s wife was out of line and I don’t defend it in any way. But surely knowing our long history of being a country that loves serving it up to others, well perhaps one might think we would be more capable of restraining ourselves from the desire to physically attack our opponents when the muck comes right back at us.

It’s also a counter-productive approach because allowing your opponent and the fans to see that they can get at you is all the encouragement they need to keep serving it up. David Warner is surely old enough by now to understand that’s how it goes.

I can’t help but feel that had the boot been on the other foot and an Australian had said something out of line, we’d be hearing that it’s “part of the game”.

Regarding people who are concerned about human rights for women, it is well documented that there is often coercion involved in women seeking an abortion. 

If we are against domestic violence, we should be against abortion.

The people who have physical and mental trauma are the ones who go through the abortion.  Many stories are documented in Giving Sorrow Words, by Melinda Tankard Reist.  Far better to have a positive outcome, as Bernadette Black from Tasmania did. 

She was pregnant at 16 but found support in unexpected places.  After she had her baby she promised herself she would be a good mum, finish her education, and write a book that would help others.

In the 21 years since then she has not just achieved all three but also established a support organisation called the Brave Foundation. In 2009 she won Barnados Australian Mother of the Year award, nominated by, wait for it, the very son who some would say was just a clump of cells, but who is a caring, sensitive human being. 

What a shame we forget that about half the babies who will be aborted are female, and they have human rights .