Dam upgrades
All the money in the world for dam upgrades is ridiculous waste without rain. Let’s calculate how much is being spent, and how much would be saved with 1-off major funding for a pipeline from a water storage facility in the great dividing range.
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Barnaby Joyce, use your head more productively, you would go down in history as the first politician for decades to actually make a lasting change for areas constantly hit by drought and truly support the rural villages, towns, cities and farmers west of the mountain range. In the big priority shuffle of life and survival, there is NO other resource as important and valuable as water!!
Marissa Galloway, Tamworth
Retention of city Olympic and Scully pools
Jan Morris (NDL 1 January 2019) Penny Milson (NDL 2 January 2019) and John Fuller (NDL 11 January 2019) all make strong arguments for retention of the existing pools.
There is a fundamental flaw of the assessment process so far. The needs of the great bulk of the city population have not been considered:
1. Where are the statistics on the schools who use the pools and how they access to them?
2. Where are the statistics on the recreational users of the pool and what their needs are?
3. What are the requirements for the learn to swim users and what services do they need?
4. Where is the strategy to encourage physical activity and address access for the greater population?
The business case states that the competitive sports would use the pools about 20 per cent of the time, with 65 per cent recreational users, 15 per cent educational users. The heaviest users of pools are about 75 per cent, live within 5 kilometres of the pool. The Aquatic Centre is 6 kilometers south of the CBD, meaning people who live on the northern side of the city will be the remaining 25 per cent of pool users.
This supports what we are most concerned about, that a substantial proportion of the population will have reduced access to pools.
Stephen Maher, Tamworth
Gunnedah rail overpass
Dear Kevin, your rail overpass pet project is a visual disaster - do you think we were going to let you run roughshod over our business? Not this time Kevin - not now - not ever. Your overpass is beyond ugly, it is a visual symbol of fascism - the mining companies are in charge of this state!! and to hell with the rest of you residents that have sat here patiently waiting for a responsible government! We’ve waited - you haven’t delivered.
Now people’s family homes have been bulldozed to rubble - as my kids told me recently we’ve had the plot of ‘The Castle’ playing out right here in sleepy old Gunnedah. You will have to get creative Kevin - tell Gladys Berejiklian that she has really gone a bridge too far this time. $62 million? Really?
I think you can take some of that back into consolidated revenue - because I moved to a property off the Oxley Highway, Mullaley because it was a premier agricultural district! Now you want to throw this all back in my face and say that this is the new look Gunnedah mining basin! Please spare me.
Angela Martin, Mullaley