Dam upgrade and water security
I urge all tiers of government to support an upgrade to Chaffey Dam. We are in a prolonged state of drought and bulk water storage is important in particular to agricultural production in the surrounds, to residents, small businesses and job security along with the cost of production in the processing sectors in Tamworth.
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I have to give credit where it is due to The Nationals Member for New England Barnaby Joyce for putting the dams issue front and centre of the agenda.
In a double election year, there is a real chance to push for an upgraded Chaffey Dam. Job security and investment is so important here.
Shane Moran
Tamworth
Festival numbers in question
I need to challenge the claim in this fine rag and on tele that the festival attracts 300,000 visitors during the CMF.
Please tell me how this figure is collated: there is no way Tamworth has ever attracted anywhere near this number of visitors to a single CMF!
Neil Abra
Tamworth
Barnaby the carp
Here he goes again. He wants to build bigger dams. Has he been walking around with his eyes shut or he doesn’t give a rats are about the people and the environment below Tamworth.
We’ll just give out more taxpayers money and destroy what is left downstream.
Yes, we are in a drought, the thing is it’s really a man made drought. It’s over extraction of water for his mates the cotton industry; water theft again the cotton industry; and government mismanagement that has put us in the position in the first place.
We the people of the lower river systems calls for a federal royal commission into the way this system has been destroyed.
Barry Stone
Sunset strip
Face the truth
In the latest news from the world of industrial negotiations comes an update to 'smoko' time. No longer do workers want or demand time off to attend to their addiction to cigarettes but to a new form of addiction - Facebook. Some workers are actually asking for breaks during the working day to check their Facebook pages with tacit approval from their employers.
The question as to which is more addictive is not so easy to resolve. Cigarettes are physically addictive and quite likely to eventually kill you whereas Facebook is psychologically addictive and likely to kill your social skills which most would think is the better of the options.
The committee behind the latest edition of 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' (Edition 5) recognise many forms of addiction and is considering further investigations of sex addiction and Internet gaming disorder although not yet a Facebook specific addiction. In time there will probably be far more people 'suffering' from Facebook addiction.
It's time to face the sun and fresh air rather than the indoor alternative of Facebook although facing a paper book is also encouraged.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Box Hill
