cars to move away. This, to be safe, means the car having to crossing the centre road line or just slowing down until there is a safe time to pass. With more than one cyclist the concern is even greater as most cyclists don’t have rear vision mirrors. It is worse still when they have earphones. Has any consideration been given to requiring cyclists to have rear vision mirrors? I am sure I had one when cycling in my youth - many years ago and no Lycra. Keith Murley, Blairgowrie
Help when needed On the evening of Wednesday 24 February I unfortunately had an accident on Old Cape Schanck Rd, Rosebud with my car finishing upside down on its roof. The immediate support was amazing, someone opening the car door to help me get out, others ringing the ambulance and police, an off duty local police officer right there seeing I was OK while waiting for the ambos. It was a great response of help and assistance and to all those unknown people, men and women, thank you. There was a sour note in that one “helpful” person also helped themselves to my wallet so I was forced to cancel cards, get a new licence and so on. I was whisked off to Frankston Hospital and stayed overnight for observations. Again people being so attentive. To you all, here at Rosebud and at Frankston, thank You. I’m left with a cracked rib to remind me of the dangers of driving on wet roads, rather greasy after a dry spell. So take care out there. Bruce Errol, Rye
Checks, balances Ron Simpson is really drawing a long bow regarding Wayne Swan’s budget speech of May 2013 (“Disappearing surplus”, Letters 1/3/16). He refers to Swan’s statement at that time that the “four years of surplus I announce tonight are a powerful endorsement of the strength of our economy”. If he had checked political history he may have discovered that Rudd replaced Gillard on the 26/6/13 and Chris Bowen replaced Wayne Swan on 27/6/13. One month after that budget speech. Swan was a great treasurer but even he couldn’t control the budget from the back benches. I am assuming that Mr Simpson is a conservative because he still did not acknowledge that Swan guided the “fiscal” ship through the GFC. I remind him of the fact that certain aspects of “Smokin’” Joe Hockey’s 2014 budget are still to be passed by the Senate. But the Abbott/Turnbull Governments looked after him with a nice little earner in the US when he “ahem” left the treasurer’s portfolio. Now we are stuck with Morrison who is more all at sea than the border patrol sailing the oceans blue looking for innocent refugees to persecute. The national debt is rising and no one in the conservatives knows what to do about it. The prime minister is in the thrall of the backbenchers and, after promising much but presenting little, has shown himself to be a fizzer. Turnbull is more concerned at what Abbott and his supporters are doing than running the country. John Cain, McCrae More Letters Page 18
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