Park changes bizarre
We have been visiting Corowa annually for 20 years. We arrived on Boxing Day to find major changes at the caravan park.
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Firstly, we are now only able to bring one car into park.
There was no notification of the change; too bad about my children coming up in separate cars.
We may have made other arrangements if we had been advised.
The pool is closed over the peak summer period and throughout the extended hot temperatures due to renovations.
No, I don’t have a permanent site at the caravan park but I have been coming for 20 years and pay $2500 to stay here.
I have witnessed some strange decisions by the council over the years and this is another.
Joanne Pegoraro, Melbourne
Discrimination distorted
Yes father, positive discrimination is still discrimination.
But one must ask why is it referred to as “positive”? Is it not so that a previous wrong can be redressed?
Isn’t it reasonable to provide women with a safe space to exercise, away from the male gaze (look it up folks, it’s a thing)?
Further, I would hazard a guess that most of those female news and current affairs program presenters that you referred to were under 40.
The notion that we might moving towards misandry tends to be a backlash to the progression of women’s issues in society.
Until the statistics on domestic violence change, calls to watch out for misandry would be better directed to more worthy causes.
Luciano Lo Bartolo, Glenroy
Minority hog the soapbox
In the final days of 2018 there was some fascinating reading in a range of newspapers.
We were told by prominent Queensland physicist Peter Ridd that extensive studies show Barrier Reef coral bleaching is not going to kill the reef (you may recall he was sacked from James Cook University for expressing this scientific view).
There were more articles about the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, which is increasingly being exposed as a political con with insufficient scientific modelling, which is now coming at great expense to taxpayers and rural communities.
And we had revelations that despite what the animal welfare lobby groups tell us, the average Australian continues to eat eggs and that their push against the egg industry has exposed this group as not being representative of the average Australian.
During 2019 we must spend more time questioning the scientific and inner-city elite communities who are trying to force their social engineering on the rest of the population, though never at their expense.
Many of their ideologies are based on false premise, yet the political power they pull has unfairly and unnecessarily affected the livelihoods of many hard-working Australians.
Let’s work to swing the pendulum back towards common-sense, for the sake of our nation and those who have helped make it great.
John Hand, Deniliquin
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