Letters
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Wonderful people
Wendy Wright, Rochford I have met so many wonderful people while out looking for Sienna … all thanks to your article last week (‘Have you seen Sienna?’, July 24). Monika and Tina have two tracker dogs and they go out every day. Gillian I have met many times as she drives around the area Sienna…
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Internet speed, or lack of it
Graham Denton, Newstead We have been Newstead residents for about two and a half years and when we first arrived our NBN wireless internet connection was great. We have what is supposed to be a 50 Mbps service that at non-peak times runs at about half that rate but is adequate for our needs. The…
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Climate change done and dusted?
Brian Clarke, Castlemaine I write to thank Gloria Meltzer, Vaughan Greenberg and Hans Paas for their answers to the questions raised by Patrick Hockey in his letter( ‘Eerie silence’, Opinions, July 17), where he clearly shows that he is not a heretic, as I am, but a true believer in the new science of belief…
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Positive approach
Noel Henderson, chair, Macedon Ranges Agribusiness Forum The secretary of the Macedon Ranges Residents Association, Christine Pruneau, provided comment in the Midland Express (‘Go figure!’, Opinions, July 10) about the recent changes to the intensive farming provisions in all Planning Schemes in Victoria. The concerns expressed about these changes being incompatible with the Macedon Ranges…
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Unique opportunity
Rob Bakes, Pastoria Now that the Kyneton and District Town Square Co-Op is about to happen (Sunday August 26 to be precise), the Victorian Labor Party policy on cooperatives makes for very encouraging reading. Perhaps there is real hope in this policy document that the Labor Party will give support to our exciting community initiative…
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The delusional and the corrupt
Hans Paas, Castlemaine I may be able to help Brian Clarke (‘Courage and intelligence’, Opinions, July 24). Although it is not abundantly clear from his letter, it seems that Mr Clarke still doubts the reality of climate change. If I am right, his experience of an ‘eerie silence’ when he seeks to promote climate change…
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Conservative zealots
Vaughan Greenberg, Chewton Brian Clarke’s thinly veiled climate denialist letter will fool very few (‘Courage and intelligence’, Opinions, July 24) . I have never found people ‘unnerved and disturbed’ by discussion of climate change, quite the opposite. Maybe the eerie silence that he describes is the embarrassment people feel at trying to contend with the…
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Selective and narrow
Gloria Meltzer, Chewton In the letter by Brian Clarke (‘Courage and intelligence’, Opinions, July 24) he bemoans the fact that many people in Castlemaine find discussion of climate change ‘unnerving and disturbing’. I have always found the exact opposite. We obviously move in very different circles as most people I meet here are not only…
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More is less
Dr Ray Brindle MPIA, traffic and transport researcher, Malmsbury Graham Smith (‘Not convinced’, Opinions, July 17) isn’t convinced that wire rope barriers save lives, as the Transport Accident Commission asserts. Research and global experience shows there is little doubt that, installed correctly and where needed, these flexible barriers do indeed lead to significant reductions in…