I do apologise
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I acknowledge that farmers are but the first link in a longer process and have little or no say in what the shop price becomes so consumer grievances will be more effective being targeted at the retail giants like Woolworths, Coles and others. I apologise for any misunderstanding.
George Krooglik, Albury
Get together on NDIS
The NDIS has made everything so complicated, red tape, forms you need a lawyer to fill out, reports that are just a waste of money, delays on outcomes and denial of funding, and the list goes on.
Are you crying out for help? Has the NDIS let you down? Has your funding for equipment needs been denied? Not enough support? Is your life now more complicated and stressful since the NDIS rollout? If your answer is yes to these questions then would you come to a public gathering where you could voice your concerns in a controlled and respectful manner?
I have been in a wheelchair for 19 years and have sought very little assistance along the way. I don't qualify for a DSP but the NDIS is not means tested of which I was most grateful. But I have found it nearly impossible to get funding for equipment like a hoist, hi-lo bed or a very much needed wheelchair as mine is eight years old.
I am willing to employ a PA to help me organise a meeting of interested NDIS participants and invite our local MPs and the NDIS/NDIA to an open question and answer forum in Albury, Wodonga or Lavington to see if we can't get answers to some of our problems.
We need to be united, fighting one and all for what is reasonable and necessary to live our lives in this community. I would ask that those interested please email reachout.ran@gmail.com.
Graham Walker, Lavington
Something fishy
John Lolicato, chairman for the Wakool River Association said: "In the last 100 years there were never any major recordings of massive native fish kills in the Murray Darling Basin until 2009 (after the 2007 Water Act was introduced). Since then there have been four major hypoxic blackwater events in the Edwards/Wakool River systems, of which two spread to the Murray and Murrumbidgee River Systems, killing hundreds of thousands of native fish on each occasion."
Some of the dead fish were reported to be 60 years old. They must have been healthy and thriving 50-year-old fish before the 2007 Water Act. Is there a lesson for us here?
Brian Hession, Thurgoona
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