YOUR SAY: Border Mail letters to the editor

Some researchers claim that the domestic market uses only 10 per cent of what farmers produce with the rest having to be sold on an extremely competitive global market and we are all horrified to see how much good food is wasted. There is constant disagreement about water usage and sharing it between food production, suburbia, the environment and even the stock-piling of this precious resource by entrepreneurs.

While many citizens are calling for a Royal Commission into the mismanagement of the Murray Darling Basin, perhaps we should put pressure on the Department of Agriculture to consult with the community and produce a properly planned food policy.

When government agencies need to force a change in the culture and attitudes of their workforce, the most cost-effective and practical way is to relocate the office.

Right now the bureaucrats of the Murray Darling Basin Authority, state government water agencies, and the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder are out of touch to the needs of regional Australia.

The culture and attitudes of the bureaucrats needs to change. As well as offering drought stimulus to irrigation communities, isn't it time to force the relocation of all bureaucrats involved in water decision making to live in the Riverina?

Can't we have one big multi-government water 'office' based in this region, where every decision the bureaucrats make affects their house values, medical services and community?

To Mike Bonito ('Shut them down', The Border Mail, October 26), positive and negative comments on topics is called free speech. Those who say otherwise appear to have spent too much time in communist dictorships. It's clear these people have never paid for a businesses electricity bill or maybe they are just lefties intent on saving the planet, destroying Australia and making everyone unemployed.

There is only so much money in the government tills and when businesses move overseas because of cheaper everything and no one can pay the tax to government, well watch this space. Visy will shut its doors in Australia in five years and yes, no more free handouts and no more solar panel rebates.

Climate change this year, or is it global warming? Wait until next year and we will call it something else. Let's scare the kids and get them to march on a weekend. Oh sorry we wouldn't get anyone.

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