Your Views: Letters to the Editor
This week, InDaily readers respond to controversial plans for Hutt Street and a new look for the SA Liberals.
Responding to Hutt Street saga passes long-awaited hurdle in rowdy scenes
Well done to the council. Now to energise the connector bus so people from all over the city can visit Hutt Street. Remembering Devany’s Wine Bar on the corner, complete with a winter fireplace. – David Donaldson
Councillor Couros is wrong when she said the Hutt Street Community came together. The process was a sad example of a community having been engaged in good faith in a genuine consultation process since 2013, having their views completely wiped out by vested interests.
Misinformation and interference from councillors who have no connection with the area and politicians looking for an election issue have created division in what was a united community.
The adopted plan is a no-change plan. Hutt Street will continue to be a highway through the city to avoid the ring road. Not bold, not inviting, and not safe for cyclists and people. I’m tired of those who live outside the city making the rules for our neighbourhoods.
Instead of unity, Councillor Couros has created division and destroyed hope. – Janet Giles
Responding to ‘Gobsmacking’ $1 per year lease for Festival Plaza tower land revealed
A state government spokesperson said, “The notion that the state government was only paid $1 for this land is not accurate”, and that no further details are available.
Festival Plaza is public land. Does the government think that it is above openness and honesty?
The Adelaide park lands are on the national heritage list. Yet the state government will not make the park lands heritage protected. There is a bad smell of a Labor government that believes that it knows more than the voting public. – Stephen Morris
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Responding to Controversial plan to end pokies in pubs unveiled
It’s a waste of time and effort trying to get gaming out of pubs. But what about restricting access times? Having gaming rooms open until 5.00am is patently obscene and totally unnecessary. – Barbara Fergusson
If a punter can’t play pokies at a venue, they are surely going to wind up on online casinos and being able to bet way above the venue max bet … all while lying in bed … –– Simon Ferrier
Responding to Unique tourism deal sees sites returned to Indigenous owners
I think this is wonderful. It will inject much-needed equity towards Indigenous people and help them on their road to self-determination and cultural dignity. – Rob Transini
Responding to Opinion: ‘Leaking ceilings and failing cooling’, the state SA children learn in says everything about us
The stark contrast between private and public schools was brought to me recently. We have three grandchildren, one attends a private school, and the other two attend a public school. Both recently had end of year concerts.
The public school had theirs on the school oval. It was a lovely evening, and the local Lions group offered the usual sausage sizzle.
The private school hired the Entertainment Centre! The productions/concerts were like professional entertainment.
We were also shown an artist’s image of a new multi-story building being erected on the grounds. No doubt with a generous government subsidy, yet there is no money for the basics in our public system.
To be honest, I despair for our public-school students. Particularly those not in the city or eastern suburbs schools. – Herman Pouwels
Meanwhile, our two-tier education system continues to prop up private schools. Drive past any private school in any suburb in Adelaide, and you can’t help but notice the ever-ongoing construction. The facilities are jaw-dropping, amazing and exclusive with amenities like wellness centres and consulting rooms.
How can a wealthy country like Australia accept that some kids are more deserving of a privileged education than kids in public schools, especially those in more socially disadvantaged areas, where the facilities are as described by Jennie-Marie Gorman, the Australian Education Union president?
The rest of the OECD countries look at our education system in disbelief and horror. But we won’t talk about it here for fear of upsetting those who benefit from the largesse of the public purse. – Mary Reid
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Responding to Vincent Tarzia relinquishes Liberal leadership
Pretty disappointing coverage here. It was hardly a “shock announcement”, and you are patronising your readers to claim that he is “stepping down to focus on his young family”. Do you really believe that, or is that simply a quote from the press release? He is stepping down because he has no hope of being premier. – Nick Slape
Other than the name Hurn – oh yes, she’s the sister of that footballer. No one’s heard of her before. Me thinks she hasn’t done the grunt work, so she’s a question mark. It’s a sad indication of the Liberals that she should be put up as political fodder when her resume says hardly off the test. And who was grooming her for the rise? – David Anderson
Responding to Leader vote set as top Liberals speak out
Josh Teague’s denial that Vincent Tarzia was betrayed is implausible. The parliamentary Liberal Party has been absolutely disloyal, and the media have said and done everything possible to undermine Tarzia and the Liberals. They’d prefer South Australia to be a one-party state. – Richard Peake
Responding to Speirs joins SA leaders on making call on new look Liberals
Why would anyone take advice or seek approval from Speirs? The damage he inflicted on the Liberal party will take eons to overcome. Congratulations to Ashton, a great appointment, but please don’t align yourself with a self-confessed has-been. – Mick Strawbridge
The advent of Ashton Hurn as Liberal Opposition Leader has solidified the curious rag-bag of so-called policies she had promoted as shadow health spokesperson.
The suggestions that payroll tax for GP enterprises should be abolished, that substantial financial enticements should be offered to recruit nurses and that overseas doctors should be paid $40,000 to come to our state are impractical and unnecessary, and are underfunded by at least $400 million.
Clinical staff recruitment in our hospitals has already reached optimum levels under the current state government’s massive expansion of the hospital system, and the implementation, recruitment and funding of overseas doctors is a federal responsibility.
The repetitious negative commentary on the health system by the Opposition is becoming meaningless and increasingly not constructive. Ramping has progressively diminished over the past four months, but along with other states, where hospital capacities are much more stressed, access and throughput in hospitals will always be a problem.
Like our current state government, the Liberal opposition will have little influence on the key issues in health care in our country; the sustainability of general practice and the out-of-hospital care of the frail elderly are, and will continue to be, the responsibility of our federal government. – Warren Jones
Responding to Smithson: SA Pollie’s 2025 scorecard – who was hot and who was dropped
Thanks, Smitho. Not a bad rating, albeit lenient on a few like the “promise all” Kouts. Now, could we do a rating on the media? Most of whom, especially the ABC, give Labor a free ride? – John Lewis
Responding to One Burnside Village neighbour’s battle to stop cars driving the wrong way down his street
A textbook case for uncontrolled council by-law creeping into a criminal offence based on selfish residents. I used to drive up that street every week to shop from a share house on Kyle Street and drive home in the opposite direction. One of the quietest areas I ever lived in. It was a thoroughfare to the shops by design, and now they want to prosecute people as criminals for a very recent, vague by-law that did not accommodate all rate payers?
If they had not deliberately created this one-way street problem, the 34 cars would have passed through unnoticed. But then, no one would get any money out of it. Guess which solution pays for councillor golf memberships and which does not. – Tim Keeping
Responding to Busting the budget? Price tag revealed to honour Barry Humphries at Adelaide theatre
Go for it. No one like Barry. Unique. – Dennis Muirhead
