Your Views: Letters to the Editor on troubles for LIV Golf
This week, InDaily readers have their say on LIV Golf and Adelaide Writers’ Week turning to a new page with a key appointment.
Responding to Govt backing $45m golf investment despite reports Saudis are pulling LIV funding
There are other priorities than sports. With the NDIS funding to be dramatically reduced and the federal government’s expectation that the states will fund new disability supports, $45m would help achieve equitable support for people with a disability.
Other than this pressing need, the cost-of-living support for all South Australians is more of a priority than a golf course.
Leave the golf course development until there is a budget surplus. – Chris Hygonnet
It would be totally irresponsible of the Malinauskas and Labor government to spend money on the golf course now, which was questionable in the first place.
State debt is growing at an unsustainable rate, and there is a strong possibility of an Australian, if not a world recession, brewing, in addition, thanks to Trump and wars.
Peter, you don’t have to be the event king of Australia for everything – this could see you lose government – wow, another state bank fiasco “State Events Fiasco”. – Greg Keep
Responding to Vigil for 585 trees facing the chop as $45m golf course work starts
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These people must have very little to do. SAD. – Arthur Porter
Malinauskas does not appear to understand that trees take decades to grow to the size of the trees he intends to destroy. Someone, please give him some botany lessons! – Sandra Kanck
I have to say that I support this vigil and am absolutely not happy that so many trees are just going to be cut down just for the rich to have a playground. Interesting. – Sue Pleass
Responding to ‘No River Murray, no SA’: Quiet review will define SA’s future
While I applaud Craig Wilkins’ efforts to encourage people to engage with the current review of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, suggesting that there is a 50-50 chance the Lower Murray will “collapse” within 10 years, or that it will not “survive”, without explaining what that would mean, is unhelpful. The Lower Murray’s communities are fantastic places to live, work or spend time, with bright futures.
Those of us who live here understand the many ways in which the river is central to our economic and psychological wellbeing, and the importance of preserving it for irrigators and ecosystems alike – after all, we have endured both once-in-a-generation floods and drought within the past five years.
But I fear that day trippers, tree-changers and investors may not have the same nuanced understanding. – Peri Strathearn
Responding to New chief psychiatrist backs Minister of Men
The proposal for a “Minister for Men” in South Australia may be well-intentioned, particularly given the very real crisis in men’s mental health. But it risks missing the point.
Too many men, especially younger men and those in regional areas, are struggling. Isolation, anxiety, economic pressure and a loss of purpose are widespread. The statistics on suicide alone demand a serious response.
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But creating a portfolio is not a solution if it avoids the deeper question: why are so many men in distress in the first place? The answer lies less in identity and more in structure.
Over decades, governments of both persuasions, including Labor, have presided over an economic and social model that has steadily eroded the foundations of stability. Secure work has declined. Housing has become unaffordable. Community life has thinned. Public institutions have weakened. In regional areas, drought and financial strain have compounded these pressures.
In that context, a “Minister for Men” risks becoming symbolic politics: a way of acknowledging the symptoms without addressing the causes.
This matters politically as well as socially. Movements like One Nation do not grow in a vacuum. They draw support from people who are and feel economically insecure, socially disconnected and culturally ignored. If mainstream parties respond with gestures rather than structural change, that discontent will not dissipate; it will be redirected.
A serious response to men’s wellbeing would not start with a ministerial title. It would start with rebuilding the conditions of a decent life: secure employment, affordable and public housing, accessible mental health care, strong regional services and vibrant local communities. – Stewart Sweeney
Responding to ‘Happy but nervous’: Writers weigh in on new festival director
As a local author who has locked horns with Writers’ Week at times and also served on its advisory committee, I welcome Milsom to the project. She’s an excellent choice.
The job is a tough one, though, requiring that damage to the event be repaired arising from not only recent circumstances, but also a culture that excludes many writers from the annual program, including SA writers, writers for young people, and writers in popular genres.
Establishing more balanced representation across every literary front needs to be the first item on her agenda (or perhaps restoring an advisory board to the process, served by people who actually live in SA). – Sean Williams
Responding to How big? SA MP fights boundary change to electorate covering 92 per cent of state
As a long-term resident of the electorate and a passionate environmentalist, I have always felt underrepresented and noticed Venning’s omission in his list of who he represents. As such, I feel including some new voters from the city fringe would better reflect the diversity of the electorate.
Bring on the changes, I say, and a perfect time to honour an incredible Aboriginal elder. – Janine Weatherstone
Responding to Pay not punish SA whistleblowers
While I support whistleblowers strongly, I do not think they should be paid to come forward. They will be more respected if they come forward without being remunerated.
However, if they are impoverished by losing their jobs or being put in jail or home detention, they should be given a living wage while the information they have provided is being assessed. If their information is found to be true, they could be paid the amount of income they have lost in blowing the whistle, and nothing more.
I greatly value the courage and sacrifice that whistleblowers have made in the past, and they should not be punished even if they break the law by doing so. In my opinion, justice should be given priority over the law itself if the law might lead to an unjust outcome for the whistleblower. – Helen (surname withheld)
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