I had acknowledged the NSW government’s grant to fix the problems with the hospital’s hydrotherapy pool and noted member for Albury Greg Aplin’s work in securing the funds. But my point, which Lorna Read seems to have missed, is that it was never a responsibility of Albury City Council. As a Council we are constantly faced with governments at all levels shifting costs onto local government. 

We recently saw several million cut from funding for public libraries in NSW, although this has now been reversed. NSW is the only state where it is the local council who must give rate concessions to pensioners and on the list could go.

But there is another issue in the letter that I cannot let pass. It refers to a $50,000 grant to a local multicultural group “whose members draw more than adequate settlement grants and weekly pensions from the federal government”.

I know to whom the grant was given and I can assure your readers that many of the people in this group are hard-working (yes, they actually have jobs) and do not warrant the slur by innuendo that they live off government grants. 

Albury is a welcoming community and we appreciate those who come into our community to resettle after significant trauma. They show their commitment to our community and our nation by becoming citizens.

So disappointing to see more of the same voted in as Prime Minister and Deputy. Nothing will change. Australia is still on a slippery slope into becoming a Third World country.

I and many others were hoping to see a change which would lead to a restoration of Australia's place as a Lucky Country, but it is not to be.

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As a result, the Liberals are likely to be wiped out at the next election, with Bill Shorten becoming the next Prime Minister. That will be the final straw to bring us down.

Open borders, debt rising, free speech gone, our kids brainwashed, sharia law, more foreigners in our Parliament who change our way of living, our sovereignty handed to the UN, foreigners buying up our country … to name a few.

I only hope and pray that Scott Morrison shows Aussies that he does put Australians first ,and gets us out of the socialist mess we are in.

Another day in politics, another Prime Minister? Just another cartoon episode really with the state of Australian politics.

There appear to be very few politicians you can trust and that are competent while the rest are just inept, incompetent or crooked – and that is both at state and federal levels.

They say you pay peanuts and you get monkeys. Well we are paying more than peanuts and not even getting good quality monkeys.

I sometimes wonder if we would be better off with a benevolent dictator, at least things would run properly.