Your Views: Letters to the Editor
This week, InDaily readers respond to the Queer Crows group speaking out about Rankine’s homophobic slur and the scrapping of bike lane plans in North Adelaide.
Responding to Bike lane backflip for North Adelaide
Without the bike lanes, O’Connell Street will appear as a continuation of Main North Road. Those businesses may as well close up and become car yards. This is not the 1950s; please wake up and see how cities benefit from being bike-friendly. – Roger Coats
Yet again, a very poor decision, which fails to address the pressing issue of climate change. Unless and until we promote public transport, walking and cycling, we are rushing towards unliveable cities with blindfolds on. Shame on those members of the Council who refuse to acknowledge this. – Adrian Terrell
Responding to Queer Crows group breaks silence on Rankine slur
Sadly, many things are said in the heat of the moment. Rankine knows better and will be better.
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Everyone should understand this.
The amount of pile-on has been disproportionate. The penalty applied is all that is needed. Players who do not learn from their mistakes, intended or not, should know this speech is inappropriate and will not be permitted, and their football career will be over for repeating the offence. – PA & E Keam
Responding to Moved meetings, midnight emails and mutinies: The ‘insane’ inner workings of uni’s SRC
Nothing new. Back in the 90s, I had to go to the Supreme Court to get a ruling on my position as PGSA president. Successful and costs awarded against the student union. – Jill Thorpe.
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Responding to Flinders Foundation chair to retire
I wish to add my admiration and thanks to Alan Young. He was a superb and highly competent chairman of the Flinders Foundation; I wish him a happy and fulfilling retirement and welcome associate professor Michael Michael to the role. – David Lines
Responding to Housing Trust horror sites set for upgrades – including scene of slaying
Maybe it is time to do a story on the inadequacy of how councils treat Housing Trust tenants when disagreements arise with private owners. We have become an elitist society, and it’s all because of the discrepancies and values placed on humans and what they earn.
The whole of SA is a mixture of social housing, and in the more expensive suburbs, it seems to be a greater divide, and there are some who are utilising their contacts in councils to be bullies, even using the police for domestic issues and false reports just to intimidate and hopefully scare people into leaving, and also utilising Housing SA to support them.
All people are struggling to put a roof over their heads, and the challenges they face to pay high rents or even low rents. People still need to be able to live in peace. For a certain group of individuals to think that just because they are actually lucky enough to own their homes, they have the right to dictate who lives around them, is so wrong in 2025. – G Stead
Responding to Inflation unexpectedly surges to 2.8 per cent
I find it unbelievable that economists are shocked by the inflation figure. The simple fact is they don’t shop at supermarkets to see the price increases everywhere, and that includes ALDI, butchers and fruit shops – they are no different. – David Nicholson
