Letters Repent? Beware, the end is nigh! Peter Walters Ballina
Treaty now! The NSW government took the land, and Treaty is a long time coming. Keep it simple and call the Treaty now. Treaty is a consensus of hearts and minds whether partial or full. Why do we need suffer through more disconnection and ill-education? All interested parties will benefit in some way and if you’re not interested that’s fine too. The ideal is the Treaty so call it now. Kim Komesarook Byron Bay
Future housing Am I wrong or is the proposed development of thousands more houses to be added to the Byron Shire unrealistic? Ok, so where are the proposed schools, shops, and industrial centres to cater for the influx of residents? Where are the proposed upgrades for sewage and water? When will Byron Council fix up all the stuff-ups with stormwater infrastructure that exist? This just seems like a complete lack of planning to me and again Council seems to just ignore the obvious – that we need to have infrastructure and functional infrastructure not patched-up patches of failed infrastructure. This is absolute madness. We have not got even a connection of footpaths or cycleways. Here we have a Council with development plans for our future that cannot even fix our existing problems. This has to stop, it is ludicrous. Annie Radermacher Brunswick Heads
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or trucked for up to 30 hours to slaughterhouses at five days old, hungry and terrified. The mothers, often suffering chronic mastitis, can be heard frantically crying out for days after their babies have been torn from them. Only this industry could define allowing a baby to drink milk as ‘waste’. You can help! Stop buying dairy products, and the giant dairy corporations will stop this vile cycle of breeding and killing. Desmond Bellamy Special Projects Coordinator PETA Australia
Media stories of the strikes in the dairy industry mostly discuss possible shortages in shops and the likelihood that perishable milk will be wasted. There are mentions of the exploitation of the drivers and factory workers, but what of the main victims – the cows and calves? One farmer has reported tipping 14,000 litres of milk down the drain. That represents the milk produced by about 700 cows in a day, not for greedy corporations but for their calves, who are instead taken from them and killed, or forced into the same cycle of endless artificial insemination until worn out. This is a brutal industry. ‘Bobby calves’ are shot, hit on the head with hammers,
In essence The essence of the last four unpublished Echo Letters from this writer is that the journalist, Tucker Carlson, says, ‘there will be a hot war between USA and Russia next year’.
A letter sent to The Echo on October 6, a day before the latest war began, stated: ‘War is outdated: there are no winners in war, just endless suffering. Proponents of war are driving this world toward its final conclusion’. The Muslim countries will have around five million troops available, Pakistan has offered to loan Turkey nuclear weapons and Russia has guaranteed Iran’s security. Within weeks, a million could die of thirst. A letter sent months ago stated, ‘by 2025 the war will have spread everywhere’. The Ukraine war and mid-east war may eventually morph into a single world war. The US elections may be cancelled due to the war. For those who really do want the Indigenous to have a voice, I am sure you will now support immediate Voice legislation, with a similar role as suggested by the referendum. If a Voice Commission is not now legislated by parliament, that will mean politicians do not want the Indigenous to have a voice. Peter Olson Goonengerry
Bibby is right Paul Bibby is absolutely correct regarding the palpable relief of residents following Commissioner Dickson’s dismissal of the appeal by Denwol Suffolk against Byron Shire Council’s determination of a refusal for the mixed-use over development in Clifford Street, Suffolk Park. The destruction of the protected cypress pine forest at the site may have been the primary reason for Commissioner Dickson’s decision to
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