Short and sharp
Between Lee Rhiannon and Sarah Hanson-Young the Greens have proven beyond a doubt that their party can run itself under a bus without even leaving the driver's seat.
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Yvonne Rance
Griffith
Trains in vain
Why is the present Liberal-National state government not interested in improving and the way country passenger services are being run into the ground? Is this building up to the presage to closing it down?
GR Hall
Wagga
Taboo issues
An art exhibition is being staged by the University of Melbourne pop-up Science Gallery next month in Melbourne called “Blood: Attract and Repel”
Melbourne Uni are putting $400,000 towards the exhibition.
State and federal governments are donating $55,000 of tax payers money and the Science Gallery of Melbourne has raised $160,000 from philanthropic partners.
This art installation is about menstrual blood. What a waste of over half a million dollars for the people of Melbourne.
The same people who Wade Kelly said think the people of Wagga are bogans, country hicks, etc, because we don’t want to spend money on art until the more important things are done.
This is proof that HECS fees should be doubled for art students. If you are going to waste it then pay for it yourself. It is also proof you shouldn’t take some peoples advice.
Bryan Pomeroy
Wagga
Conservative in policies
Malcolm Turnbull claims the Liberal party is not a conservative party.
He has cut pensioners’ payments so he can give millionaires a large tax reduction and cut the working man’s take-home pay – and he claims to be centre right.
Tony Abbott says the Liberals are too far left.
Labor policy is not left or right – it is based on what works. It is called common sense.
That is not what we are getting from this conservative federal government. Yes they can call themselves anything they like but they have conservative policies.
Ken Morehouse
Wangaratta
Vegetarian world-beaters
A new study has found there are four things we, as individuals, can do to combat climate change: have less (or no) children, ditch our cars, avoid air travel and move to a plant-based diet. The report says that other tactics such as recycling, using your own shopping bags, changing your light bulbs to energy-efficient varieties and doing your laundry in cold water garnered almost tokenistic results by comparison.
Now, most of us only decide on procreation once or twice in a lifetime; we might buy a car every few years, and we may fly a handful of times a year. But we make decisions on our eating habits three times a day (sometimes more), and that is an empowering thought.
According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, it takes up to 10kg of grain to produce just 1kg of meat, while more than 90 per cent of all Amazon rainforest land cleared since 1970 is being used for grazing livestock. The Worldwatch Institute reports that a staggering 51 per cent or more of global greenhouse-gas emissions are caused by animal agriculture.
Try going veg for your next meal. There's plenty of support on the PETA website. You'll not only reduce your carbon footprint, but you'll improve your health and help save animals from horrific deaths. And the best news: you can make that difference three times a day.