Proud of living local
This is just a small thank you on behalf of Cathleen and the Liddall family to all the local businesses, volunteers and the individuals and families who have donated their products, time and cash to help Cathleen in her fight against cancer.
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The response from our community has been absolutely amazing and all of us should be very proud of living in such a caring and generous environment.
The amount raised so far has taken a lot of the financial stress of Cathleen and her family for which they are all extremely grateful.
Thank you to the many local businesses who helped us.
Friends of Cathleen Liddall
We agree with council
We note the article in last week’s Merimbula News regarding the ugly, illegal water tower at Pambula Rivermouth.
We support the council staff recommendation that the modified DA be refused and the owner be prosecuted.
What is the point of having a DA process if it can be so easily flouted? What about the rest of us ratepayers?
Chris Black
Merimbula
Disgraceful public toilets
Outrageous! That was my first thought when I had occasion to visit the public toilets opposite the Shell petrol station as one enters/exits Merimbula.
Clearly this facility had not been cleaned in weeks, if not months. It reminded me of my travels through the sub-continent such was the cringe-worthy state of filth and neglect of this public convenience.
One could well argue that as Merimbula is a predominately a tourist town our council would want to give the impression of a clean and welcoming environment.
Instead, the shire, on our behalf, gives the impression to our paying guests that we care so little of them that we are unwilling to even bother cleaning our public bathroom for their comfort.
It is also of note that the few public conveniences in the town are old, one pan affairs, which should have been demolished and replaced with modern facilities at the turn of the century.
And I will not accept the argument that the shire doesn't have the funds to fix the problem when we pay the highest property rates in the country.
Scott Buckingham
Tura Beach
Free Trade Agreements
FTA are invariably promoted as being good for jobs and "the economy".
But as Naomi Klein writes in her latest book, "This Changes Everything", since 1988 there has been a simultaneous rise in free market agreements along with the rise of neoliberalism and the philosophy of unfettered "free markets" globalisation and the decline in support for action on climate change.
There was majority support and agreement in Europe and the USA in the 1980s for action on climate change but all that has changed.
This because any action on climate change will be contrary to the interests, ie profit, the "bottom line" of "the market".
Not only that FTA allow multinational companies to sue governments if actions on behalf of their citizens come into conflict with and adversely effect profits.
The tobacco companies action against plain packaging is an example.
The economy (and this really means multinational profits at base no matter how it is sold) trumps ecological concerns, national interests and the fate of smaller countries.
Free Trade Agreements are most aggressively promoted by the USA, the country where the Congress is really just the political arm of American big business and in particular the multinational, global giants.
Australia is swimming with the sharks in this FTA.
