Your views: on electricity bills, flying feathers and more
Today, readers comment on an imminent power price spike, nuclear subs, feathers flying at WOMADelaide, a superannuation change and Kaurna language website.
Commenting on the story: Power bill shock to hit SA homes and businesses
Why are we in SA hit with the highest power prices and one of the highest increases when the rises are due to coal and gas price increases, yet we are running 70% (average) on renewables.
It just doesn’t make any sense. Someone is making a killing at our expense. – Phillip Dennis
Utilities should not be run on a market model. Governments are meant to make life manageable for their constituents, not force us to gamble on markets for our future, superannuation being another example. – Angie Walker
Commenting on the story: Adelaide shipyard work on track for AUKUS subs deal
Australia is not a nuclear armed state, and yet we will be building/purchasing vessels which are intended to play a role in a nuclear war.
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The Prime Minister has said we will remain a non-nuclear weapons state, despite he and his Liberal predecessor making us more of a nuclear target. It is now imperative the Australian Government signs the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. – Sandra Kanck
Commenting on the story: When feathers fly: the story behind Place des Anges
Sorry, having witnessed both the show and the aftermath, it’s time to say no more feathers please!
Botanic park on Friday night was looking particularly good. The grass was long and Womad felt like a huge picnic in a forest. But this feeling was overwhelmed by a spectacle that transformed the site from green and living to dead and white.
Let’s face it, covering the space with the residue of industrial chicken farming is bad karma. The massive cranes were also a jarring note. Womad should stop trying to out circus Cirque du Soleil, and focus on world music amongst the trees with more intimate roving performances. – Mike Ladd
Absolutely love this. Amazing artists, beautiful music … spectacular. Thank you. – Erica Spry
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Commenting on the opinion piece: Nothing super about broken promises
All professionals are require to undertake set education levels to be able to work in their chosen fields. Some fields of endeavour require ongoing education, indemnity its insurance, and regular re-certification to be able to register as practitioners.
Some will have contracts with KPI’s, performance targets, and even probationary terms. There is government-imposed regulation of most professions, and stepping outside regulations can result in loss of registration.
Lying to employers would usually result in some form of rebuke, or even dismissal. Politicians have no person specifications, no education requirements, no regulation, and no accountability for performance or financial management. Hence they can do anything they want in any fashion, by stealth of downright lying with impunity.
Morry Bailes is subject to this sort of constraint and regulation, so why are politicians not so constrained? The notion of honesty has disappeared, and media have eroded the wrongdoing of telling of lies by substituting the word “misinformation”. This change has diminished people’s responses to the fibs told by those whom indeed we voted into power, to the point where we now almost expect them to speak with forked tongues.
Time for someone to make a few changes to make politicians accountable like the rest of the population. – John Taylor
This article was such an alarmist attack on the government by a stated “former Liberal office holder” as to make more an hysterical rant than solid analysis.
A self managed super fund that has more than $3 million in the account is somehow disadvantaged more than an industry fund or commercial fund, is illogical. Why does it matter how the $3 million got there or who manages it? – Shelley Lush
Well, Mr Bailes would say that, wouldn’t he, being a former SA Liberal Party vice president. It’s not that I disagree with the ‘gist’ of some of his comments, it’s more that I’m interested to hear how he justifies the ‘forgone tax’ given to the most well off in our society and that by 2050 will ‘cost us all’ more than the total outlays on the age pension.
The majority of whom have so little in savings /super that they get the maximum rate of pension. – Helen Chadwick
Commenting on the story: Kaurna online: New website to help learn the language
Congratulations! This is wonderful news and gives many the chance to learn a little or a lot of the Kaurna language. – Ann Davenport
