As it is heritage listed, will the Queen’s crown and ‘Post Office’ lettering be allowed to be taken away?

Let’s see if the post office can remain in its rightful place, rather than a shopfront in an inconspicuous place down the street.

As a builder and pseudo designer, I can fairly easily see a solution which will not disturb its heritage appearance and allow disabled access.

At the street corner end of the arched portico the granite base could be eased to a shallow ramp from street level, and at the post office entrance end, a half-width ramp with rail protection could raise the portico floor to doorway threshold  height.

How about our councillors or staff  be proactive, and seek to meet with Australia Post to solve this impasse and keep our post office in its strategic corner location.

Australia Post is set to reduce its service to all residents of Beechworth on the spurious grounds of providing access to disabled people.

No one disputes that access to post office services should be made better for people with disabilities.

But moving the post office to a small shop front will only succeed in downgrading the service provided to 98 per cent of the community for the benefit of the 2 per cent. Not to mention the heritage value of this historic service.

Nancy, Mila and Lois would like to thank family, friends, and the staff of theatre and DPU at Wodonga Hospital, who attended the Biggest Morning Tea and who donated so generously to the Cancer Society raising $864.50 this year.

This is the sixth year we have hosted a Biggest Morning Tea and altogether over the six years we have raised $6680.70 for the Cancer Society to go towards researching a cure and also to fund preventative measures.

How dare the Liberal party suggest that the national broadcaster be privatised.

Is there really nothing some members of the Liberal party aren’t prepared to sell off?

It amuses me that these politicians are so comfortable in speaking of selling off things that don't actually  belong to them. They speak as if the funding for the ABC comes out of their own rather generous pay packets. But the ABC is not the property of any government, or any political party. Its ownership belongs in the hands of the Australian taxpayer. 

I think a good place to start looking for savings, if things have become so very desperate, is the generous wages and benefits pocketed by our many elected representatives. Maybe we should shed a few of the numbers in Canberra before we start talking about selling off an asset that is far more valued in the hearts of the Australian people.

The ABC won’t and can’t please everyone. And that is not its job. But clearly its efforts in holding our federal government to account displeases some Liberals greatly, demonstrating what a fine job the national broadcaster does.