Responding to Tandanya looks to the future with new vision for First Nations hub

Excellent. This restoration of Tandanya is the perfect alternative to Tarrkarri.

It’s now time to get real and scrap Tarrkarri and celebrate the wonderful Tandanya.

The government should stop dillydallying and support Brenz Saunders’ brilliant vision.

Let’s champion and showcase South Australia’s heritage and culture, and Aboriginal heritage and culture in this splendid treasure house. – Barbara Fergusson

New vision: Hope for a Cinema to show repertory of the large number of Australian films with Indigenous connections. – David Donaldson

Responding to Arts Minister pulls out of Labor’s state election race

Here’s hoping Andrea Michael’s decision, at least in part, is motivated by the Writers’ Week disgrace. SA’s Labor caucus has shown absolutely no guts over this issue. – Michael Galvin

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Responding to Hanson names SA’s One Nation top pick amid Liberal defection speculation

Cory went to Canberra to stop poker machines in SA. He didn’t know it was a state issue! He’s just an opportunist wanting a free ride and jumping on a bandwagon. Period. – Michael Pengilly

Responding to FOI request for Adelaide Festival board minutes delayed until after election

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Eighty-five days to come up with records of meetings is ridiculous. Should all records be stored electronically, retrieval should be simple and speedy. No more than a day! – Bill Graham

Never heard such nonsense in my life. Any competent board should receive minutes of the board within a week of its meeting. If not, the chair should have a strong word with the company secretary. Why the timeline? Is it so that directors can review within a timely timeframe and decisions, etc., fresh in their minds? Sounds like a ploy to protect (for whatever reason) the state government and other actors involved in this sorry debacle. – Michael Phillips

Responding to ‘Legacy lives on’: Aboriginal leaders honoured in statues

As the architect for Kaurna Plains Aboriginal School in the 1980s, I was privileged to know the principal, Dr Alice Alitya Rigney AO PSM, who always remains a wonderful inspiration.

It was a joy to attend site meetings during construction, when she welcomed me with a huge hug.

Local residents, who initially objected to the school, later sent their children there.

That says a lot about Dr Alija Rigney and her colleagues, whom I salute! – Dr David Ness

Let’s hope they’re not vandalised like some other statues are. – Paul Travers

Responding to Fresh pain for homeowners as Reserve Bank lifts interest rates

Your headline, “Fresh Pain for Homeowners”, is sensationalist and misleading.

It’s the people who don’t own their homes that will feel the pain of interest rate rises, because their mortgages will be more expensive. The people who are real “homeowners” are not affected.

I would like to see a headline that says: “Banks Fail to Pass on Additional Interest to Retirees – Again!”. Increases in mortgage rates are a problem for about 35 per cent of the population, but are beneficial, or should be, to about the same percentage who are retirees.

If the banks can pass on rate increases to mortgage holders within 24 hours, why do they not pass on those same increases to investors – oh, yes – of course, PROFIT. Disgusting!

So, try some balanced reporting – hold the banks to account for their selfish greed that steals from retirees. – Alan Boman

Responding to ‘Waiting in pain’: Libs slam children hospital wait times as thousands of midwives strike

Thank you for your article ‘Waiting in pain’: Libs slam children hospital wait times as thousands of midwives strike.

I note the figure of 11.14 per cent over three years is stated in the article. However, the offer consisted of four per cent, 3.5 per cent, then 3.25 per cent, which you’ll note is 10.75 per cent in increases, with the government trying to pass off the offer as 11.14, as a “compounded” rate. Compounded rates are not how pay rises are documented, nor normally reported (if you check back on your reporting of recent government pay negotiations, you’ll see it is the actual, not compound rate that gets reported).

Secondly, I would like to ask that reporting include comparisons across the nation. Peter Malinauskas was given voice in the article, indicating the offer was in line with pay deals in other states, and was in line with what had been approved for firefighters, public sector workers, health workers, doctors and allied health professionals. Could fact-checking be included when statements like this are made, as what isn’t said is that, while percentage increase figures may somewhat align, the difference is significant when SA nurses are drastically behind the current pay rates of the equivalent roles interstate. – David Weygandt

Responding to Veterans call to hold fire as mass SA defence properties listed in national sell-off

I remember Woodside ‘barracks’ when they were Nissan huts. As freshly arrived migrants from Europe, that was our first accommodation.

The Australian Immigration Service had told us that we wouldn’t need our warm clothes as it was not cold in Australia!

That certainly wasn’t the case in May 1960!

As far as I’m concerned, they don’t hold any good memories for me, even though they are now made of brick.

Sell them and either knock them down and revert to bushland or put them to another use. – Herman Pouwels