Letters
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Stake a claim The Cabbage Tree Island mob want to go home to where very little flood damage occurred, while Lismore people, who really should be relocated, are told to stay and encouraged to reopen their shops etc?! Something is wrong here. A conspiracy theorist might think a sugar baron wants it? So before they are cheated out of their entitlement, they could: go there by boat, plant their flags, nail their declaration of possession to the flagpole, move back into their homes.
Simple! And it’s legal under the ‘Terra Nullius’. The precedent was somewhere or other but I can’t remember where. Lester Prouse Huonbrook
What if? The purpose of increasing interest rates as a ‘blunt instrument’ to lower inflation, is simply to take disposable income out of the hands of people so they cannot spend it. The banks are making windfall profits out of these everincreasing interest charges.
What if the increased interest charges went into the person’s super fund instead of the banks, so they get to spend their own money on themselves as they age? Otherwise the banks are simply passing on profits to their shareholders at the expense of their overburdened customers. Michael Balson Upper Wilsons Creek
Team Cadwallader’s environmental war At the November Ballina Council meeting, Cr Bruem (Team Cadwallader’s
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unofficial media advisor/ spin doctor) continued his attack on the environment by attempting to wind back several of Council’s policies, including the release of balloons at events on public land, and supported the reintroduction of unrestricted 4WD access to the South Ballina Beach Crown Reserve. His motion, to seek an ‘exemption’ from Council’s policy which prohibits the supply and releasing of balloons at community events on public land, was thankfully not supported. The Our Kids Day Out event was seeking to have a performer whose only trick was to make animals and objects out of balloons and to then give them out to all the kids. It is quite obvious that this type of ‘entertainment’ isn’t appropriate at a riverside location where a good proportion of the balloons would have ended up in the river, as has been the case with previous events at this location. It felt like a pretty obvious attempt to try and paint those that supported environmental initiatives like these as ‘the fun police’, and the classic catchphrases
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