Your Views: Letters to the Editor
This week, InDaily readers respond to grumblings from SACA members and the release of long-awaited plans for a new North Adelaide golf course.
Responding to SA cricket members’ grumblings: ‘Stickers, long lines and no seats’
As a new member last year, I attended the India Test match on the last day, mainly to catch up with an old friend from the country. We also got to see a few Big Bash League matches, including New Year’s Eve, which was excellent. But for the $1200 outlay for two memberships and having to pay an extra $30 plus to reserve a seat in the nosebleed section of the western stand, I decided it wasn’t worth it to renew my membership for this year!
Guess I was right! – Craig Ingram
Agree – too many members and despite SACA trumpeting more facilities, there are clearly more members than seats. Available either in the stands or out back. A lot of the long-term members I know are letting it go next year. Poor value for money. – Allan Byrne
Responding to Long-awaited $45 million golf course plans revealed
In the meantime, we lose a large number of mature trees. Who cares? This huge amount of money to support the elite while ramping and homeless numbers are out of control? Really?
Not happy, Peter! – David Furniss
Responding to PM under pressure to overhaul ministerial entitlements
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Everyone should have their expenditure monitored and subjected to scrutiny. No politician should be exempt.
What is happening at the moment is partly the boys club ganging up on the women to put them in their place, but when they all get investigated, it might come back to bite the boys club participants in the arse.
There have always been people who play the system for everything they can get, all parties included. However, when you are looking at losing an election, all the dirty tricks come out.
As a woman who has fought very hard to get more women into political seats, I am disgusted. How dare you let me down?
To all politicians or people in positions of power, you are role models; do your bit above board.
Work-related doesn’t mean first class or five stars.
Family trips anywhere, pay for it yourself.
Taking people out to dinner? Don’t be a dick. You are Australian – act like one. – Robbyn Hutton
Responding to Controversial new building height limit proposed for Main North Road
Favoured builders/developers will be celebrating more than just Xmas. – Andrew Phillis
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The mayor, Matt Larwood, is drawing a very long bow when he says, “while the majority of people who responded in writing were against the land revocation, that’s not to say the majority of residents were against it”.
The true data, the data that can be checked, is that from the people who responded in writing or via the council’s website. Anything else is merely hearsay and unreliable. Certainly too unreliable for a $60 to $70 million project, which will bring a rate increase of up to thirty per cent over Consumer Price Index (based on 2025 cost estimates), possibly more.
While there is a bias of negatives from the ratepayers directly affected, the “anti” vote spreads broadly across the council area. So, the views of nearby residents cannot be diluted in importance.
We were told last night that consultation is not about what the majority of people want, but only to provide feedback. So, I ask, what is the real point of consultation if the “will of the people” doesn’t matter?
To their credit, the council has done a very professional and detailed job in getting the information to residents and has run several workshops. But consistent with the apathy of people toward local government, less than one per cent of people responded. This is not a criticism of Prospect Council, but just the apathy of people to local government, until it is too late to stop poor projects.
Ratepayers were told at the very first meeting for this project that, regardless of any feedback, the project would go ahead. Council has also been occasionally selective in what information it has disseminated or the timeliness of that information. Even last night, they excluded ratepayers from a session on what appeared to be about some project risks, citing “not in the public interest” or “commercial confidences”. For a project this big, how can anything be kept back from the people who will substantially pay for it?
Prospect Council is the second smallest council in South Australia and has one of the highest rates in the dollar council rates. The council has an admirable dream for the football club area, but it must live within its means. Or should I say, live in the means of the means of the ratepayers. This is a good council run by a quality administration, and I have sympathy for them having to make this project work.
It’s very unfortunate that despite the council having some very professional people working on this project and some elected councillors being very professional and ratepayer-focused in Prospect Council, based on the tone of the ratepayers after the meeting last night, trust is at an all-time low. – Paul
Responding to Malinauskas ‘stands ready’ to recall SA Parliament after Bondi massacre
Albanese is using gun laws as an excuse for the horrific massacre, to excuse his inaction, and he claimed this massacre was totally unexpected in Australia.
Really! When our nation has had many massive demonstrations, Australian flag burning, graffiti against the Jews and on Jewish homes, followed by synagogue torching, this is merely the next step in their hatred and determination to inflict the maximum possible damage and put fear into the Jewish community and ordinary Australians. And Albanese couldn’t see this coming.
So, bring in new gun ownership laws if you like, but terrorists and criminals don’t usually buy guns legally from a gun shop. Apparently, these terrorists did, but they would be the exception, not the rule.
It is time to take real action against these people spreading hate, or worse, including jail time and, where appropriate, deportation.
It is time for all governments, especially the federal government and state governments, to rid our country of antisemitism, for the good of all peaceful Australians.
RIP to the victims of hatred. – Andrew Satterley
