Letters to the Editor fear the loss of an Adelaide Hills trekking spot
This week, InDaily readers back an electorate name change and share their views on the SA Governor leaving her role.
Responding to ‘Devastating’: Locals fear loss of popular trekking spot
I feel deeply for the residents of Skye and the almost certain environmental destruction.
Thebarton Police precinct was heritage listed, yet that didn’t stop Labor’s destruction and incursion into parklands.
Like the devastating destruction for car racing, aquatic centres, Liv Golf and skyscrapers, people should realise by now that this is how Labor enhances development, the environment and public disregard.
After the recent electoral success, the public of SA has given SA Labor the carte blanche approval to bulldoze, destroy and desecrate any area that Labor so desires.
I feel deeply for Skye residents, but why should their treasured environment be treated any differently from all the other senseless and disastrous destruction of the environment? – Richard Webb
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My chief concern is the hazard of bushfires to ridgetop residents. Great views! But undefendable, should sparks from a fire ignite bushland in the deep gullies, either side of a ridgeline. And fire temperatures increase exponentially as fires race up hillsides to ridgetops.
Boral must preserve the ridgelines at Skye for recreation, rather than real estate, and revegetate the quarries that are no longer productive with plants indigenous to the area.
With deforestation and loss of native habitat comes species extinction and global warming. Heat is energy, and energy drives (weather) systems. Bushfires and other disasters will be at our doorsteps ever more frequently. – John Eaton
Responding to New name touted for SA’s largest electorate
I wholeheartedly support the suggestion to rename the electorate of Grey. The proposal of O’Donaghue is perfect. Lowitja was/is an example of integrity, fortitude, patience, persistence and respect. – Helen Parkin
Responding to Fears SA junior pay rate rise will squeeze youngsters out of jobs
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Utter stupidity showing who actually runs this country now- stinking union movement, a total scourge on our economy, combined with the spineless ignorance of the Fair Work Commission.
This country is in such peril from unfettered collusion of ignorance with ideology. Full adult wages for inexperienced legal but immature “adults”?
No happy ending here. – Colin Gaetjens, Kent Town
Responding to ‘Australia’s favourite bird’ at risk of extinction, researchers warn
I live in Kangaroo Valley and I have witnessed, along with my visitors, more and more of the superb fairy wren on my property. You can look out the living room window any time of the year and see many Wrens flitting around my Grevillia plants. More than any other species visiting my farm. – Graeme Barker
Responding to SA’s beloved Gov announces decision on future
This is sad news. Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC has been a wonderful Governor for South Australia. She will be missed. – Barbara Fergusson, Kent Town.
With the news that Frances Adamson doesn’t wish to extend her term as Governor of South Australia, it’s timely for the Malinasukas Government to consider whether the state really needs a full-time resident in Government House.
The Governor has constitutional duties but they don’t require her or him to live in a fully maintained and staffed mansion on North Terrace.
It is patently obvious that the vast majority of the Governor’s time is spent hosting receptions, parties and other gatherings at Government House and attending events associated with being patron of many charities and organisations. None of this is essential to the good governance of the state.
A part-time Governor could live at home in the city or suburbs and could be chauffeured here and there when required for meetings of executive council, opening of State Parliament, hosting of royalty, diplomats etc. If an office is required, it could be in a city building; and Government House and its spacious grounds could become part of the cultural boulevard for public use.
It is not heresy to suggest that the state’s representative of the King could perform her or his essential duties in a couple of hours a week, maybe even one day a week. – Alice Tahon, Unley
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