Help wanted
CAN ASSIST is desperately searching for executive members.
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We’re looking for a treasurer, an assistant welfare officer and an assistant secretary.
Our next meeting is on Thursday, December 1 at 7pm at the ex-services club. We urge anyone interested in getting involved to attend.
Can Assist is currently helping over 60 people in Junee and gives between $28,000 and $40,000 to local residents each year. We’d like to thank everyone in town who contributed with outstanding fundraising efforts.
Can Assist Junee needs ongoing support to continue its current efforts and would again like to urge interested locals to attend the meeting on December 1.
Natalie Phillips, Junee Can Assist
Open door to terror
NEARLY every time Malcolm Turnbull opens his mouth, he extols the benefits of multiculturalism.
Apparently our PM is unaware of what is going on in the real world as a result of the influx of boat people/migrants from third world countries over the past 20 years or so.
Some of the “benefits” include the foiled Holsworthy Barracks terror plot and it’s now even dangerous to sit down in a café and have cup of coffee (the Lindt cafe siege).
Also, the Endeavour Hills incident where two counter-terrorist officers were nearly stabbed to death and, just a few days ago, an Islamic asylum seeker from Burma firebombed a suburban bank in Melbourne, injuring 27 people.
These are just a few of those “benefits” we get from our generous immigration policies.
What is the government doing about this? Just to appease the UN, they are actually increasing the migrant intake. Won’t our thick-headed politicians ever learn?
They are always boasting about our impenetrable borders but what’s the sense in locking the back door then allowing thousands of asylum seekers of dubious character in through the front? What we need right now is another Donald Trump.
Geoff Field, Gundagai
The real burning issue
THIS is a story that must be told.
Below is a list of four of the many chemicals used in cigarette manufacture.
You can see how dangerous they are.
- Acrolein: this chemical is also used in chemical warfare.
- Aminonaplhalene: It is a banned in industrial uses.
- Ptoplonaldehyde: It is used as a disinfectant.
- Acetaldehyde: This chemical facilitates the absorption of other dangerous chemicals into the bronchial tubes.
Under the UN charter on human rights, any chemical that can cause death is a violation of article 7. For the purpose of this statute, a crime against humanity constitutes any of the following acts when committed as part of the widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack.
With this then, the federal parliament is guilty of this very crime. Smokers need to take a stand against this poisoning. Grow your own tobacco.
If you have given up the habit, then you have done enough damage to the body that it does not count to a healthy life.
Leslie Stott, Cootamundra
Violence a dog act
THROUGHOUT November, numerous White Ribbon events are being held in a bid to end violence to women, but there's another group who are victims of violence – animals.
Each year, a staggering 56 billion farmed animals are violently killed.
The White Ribbon campaign calls on men to vow that they will never commit violence against women. A Scarlet Ribbon campaign could call on men and women alike to vow never to support violence to animals.