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Hasten slowly on carbon trading

November 21, 2008

Back in the early 1980s, when the Australian Government decided subsidising inefficient local industries was not the way to do business, it signalled the start of the free trade era.

Inefficient businesses were no longer propped up by the Australian taxpayer. Read more

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13-year-old stoned to death in Somalia

November 21, 2008

Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was killed on Monday, October 27, by a group of 50 men who stoned her to death in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, in front of around 1000 spectators.

Contrary to earlier news reports, the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13, not 23, Amnesty International can reveal. Read more

This post was submitted by Sue Gabriel.

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Community rallies to save old convent

November 19, 2008

What will Janet Higgs do with a $95 airport bag, Italian handbag and voucher? And how about Nick Haggett?

Was it him who ended up with a $50 router, whatever a router is? Read more

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Pigs are raised cruelly

November 18, 2008

Christmas meals without pork/ham will mean that peace and goodwill celebrations will not include consuming animals raised cruelly!

Pig meat is already artificially cheap due to their confinement and “processing” as if they were inanimate production units! Read more

This post was submitted by Vivienne Ortega.

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Smoking at the Christmas Parade

November 17, 2008

I would like to express my amazement at the lack of consideration displayed by a number of smokers who lit up amongst people, babies and children who were gathered closely together to enjoy the Christmas Parade. Read more

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Lowlife steals from disabled boy

November 14, 2008

Just like to say thank you very much to the lowlife that removed our disabled son’s small trampoline from our backyard.

Hope your child enjoys it; you are setting such a great example to your children. Read more

This post was submitted by Helen Watson.

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End the lobster season earlier

November 13, 2008

A couple of years ago the rock lobster season was extended by a month, thus giving the fish a month less to be left in peace and breed.

It seems more than coincidental that last season’s catch was pretty ordinary and that so far this season the catch is way down. Read more

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Mixed messages on planning issues

November 6, 2008

For many ratepayers it may be difficult to understand how a council could allow the matter of cutting down a tree to go to the courts.

The long-running saga over the Norfolk pine tree in Lake Terrace has been well documented and for several years has been the centrepiece of debate over a request by the property owner to have the large tree cut down. Read more

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New bus service via Nelson

October 30, 2008

It’s great to see public transport get up and start running on a 12-month trial.

But alas you have the rail service as well and the service could go to Penola ,Millicent, Mount Gambier and Portland … not only have you got the rails there you have the rolling stock in the form of the RED HENS. Read more

This post was submitted by Peter Hower.

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Fear not, believe only!

October 30, 2008

As I observe the realities of life now, I consider that of my dad. A product of the Great Depression, it moulded the rest of his life, as it did so many.

Thrift and caution became his guiding lights (and in later life, faith in God.) Waste was to be avoided like the plague. Lights were to be turned off when not in use. The phone was there to be used as little as possible. Read more

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