Thank goodness for local newspapers such as The Leader. 

If it was not for such mouthpieces, it would not be possible to rattle the cages of those that purport to represent us.

I am driven to write to you for the third time in a fortnight because I can get no personal response to three emails that I have sent to council. 

However, my letter and those of other concerned citizens to your good self gained responses to the recent issues regarding septic tanks from Cr Webb and the mayor himself. 

The latter has still to actually answer the questions raised by myself and others, and those same queries were listed in my letter to him. I should not have to name and shame them through this medium.

The other matter of concern to me and other neighbours is that of the gazettal of Oxley Ln to become a B-double route. 

I regard it as the height of bad manners that no one in TRC can acknowledge receipt of this correspondence. 

Comments were requested in the paper; they have my questions and now I get no reply. It’s just not good enough. 

Elected and salaried representatives of the ratepayers should behave better than this.

I now have yet another gripe with the council. 

I was directed to look at the front page of your Tuesday, September 9 edition, where I saw the grinning faces of the mayor and Barnaby Joyce turning sods with Everich chairman Eric Lee. 

Now the council seems to want ever increasing ties with Chinese investors. 

Where does the council get the idea that the ratepayers want to push this particular barrow? We don’t want Chinese investment, we want Australian investment. 

The Chinese are already raping and pillaging the Liverpool Plains with their attempts to mine for coal and they have bought the new Woolworths and liquor store site.

 What next? 

Sell the Chinese and others our products by all means, but do not sell them the wherewithal to produce it –  the land, the infrastructure.  We Australians must do the value-adding, not foreign investors of any nationality. 

It seems to be a daily occurrence that yet another Australian company sends its manufacturing offshore. 

Cyclone fencing products is the most recent famous, Australian company to issue “don’t come Monday notices” to its workers. 

Let Tamworth Regional Council became a beacon for national, not international, investment and let’s do ourselves a favour.

Yet again, the council is forging ahead with their own agenda with no consultation with the electorate, the ratepayers. 

Why don’t they just stick to running the town, the roads, the garbage, the street cleaning etc. 

If they must try and tinker with business investment, keep it Australian.

What is fuelling this apparent desire to hand profits on a plate to the Chinese who will take their profits back to China?

Stop making decisions for the community that the community has not been asked about and does not need or want.