Letters

Bill Bayliss, Chewton In his letter (‘View on new approach’, Opinions, April 16) Hans Paas makes a valid observation on how Mount Alexander Shire Council meetings are conducted. In my mind, the so-called confidential meeting should be conducted on the floor of council chambers for all to see and hear what the CEO proposes and…

Greg O’Brien, Kyneton Darcy Black made some errors in his letter (‘What are the facts’, Opinions, March 26). I am not a member of the Kyneton Airport Research Information Group, the only group I am a member of is a landcare and revegetation group. If he knows that KARIG consists of three people, he knows…

Keith Altmann, Woodend Robin Stewart has asked ‘how will we benefit’ (Opinions, March 26) from the proposed Energy Park in the pine plantation south of Woodend. The project has been initiated by the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group and now has to proceed through the planning permit process before development. The Energy Park includes wind/solar/battery energy…

Jill Loorham, Castlemaine Although I am not a Woodend resident, or for that matter, a tourist passing through, I sympathise and concur entirely with the letter written by Jennie Morrison (‘They’re dreamin’, Opinions, March 26), which questions the building of a three-metre-wide bitumen bicycle path on the Avenue of Honour’s western side, in Woodend. I…

Sandra Caddy, Castlemaine Peter Ryan (‘Stop adding hate’, Opinions, March 19) writes, Maybe people will realise that every time they express negative or hateful thoughts about asylum seekers and refugees, whether Muslim or not, they are adding to the mood of hatred. Peter do you realise that on the day of the Christchurch shooting 13…

Jennie Morrison, Woodend Acknowledging that cycling is a healthy pursuit and fun for families, the Macedon Ranges Shire Council plan for the desecration of Woodend’s Avenue of Honour is in no way justified to achieve that objective. This significant site, registered with Heritage Victoria and the National Trust, is the object of a proposal for…

Darcy Black, Kyneton So Greg O’Brien has revealed himself as one of the trio who make up the mysterious KARIG (‘Health risks real’, Opinions, March 19). One fact that Mr O’Brien will not tell you in his so-called ‘information sheet’ is that he purchased a property at the wrong end of George Street, blissfully unaware…

Chris Hooper, Castlemaine I wonder if the woman banned from the Castlemaine landfill asked too many questions about recycling (‘Banned from the tip’, Opinions, March 5). We used to be able to leave electrical items closer to the entrance where they were collected to be opened up to remove the metals in the wiring etc.…

Robin Stewart, Romsey So this is how democracy works in the Macedon Ranges. A tiny pressure group, having previously met community opposition, instead gets in the ears of state politicians and gets the law changed to enable their wind farm scheme. These were banned for good reason earlier this decade. The wishes of the community…

Jim Alsop, Mount Macedon I take exception to the paid advertisement placed in the March 12 edition of the Midland Express, ‘Labor’s plan for tax reform’ under the authority of Lisa Chesters MP. It is false and misleading in explaining the current treatment of taxation for shareholders relying on dividends and franking credits for income.…

Christine Pruneau, secretary, Macedon Ranges Residents Association Checked council’s ‘Shared Trails’ proposals yet? You should. What a $20 million ‘tear up’ of where we live, with ratepayers apparently up for over $350,000 yearly for maintenance. Up north, there’s a mix of Daylesford/Tylden/Carlsruhe/Kyneton/Woodend/Hanging Rock trails, and down south, a Woodend/Macedon/New Gisborne/Riddells Creek trail. Promoted as improving…

Greg O’Brien, Kyneton Ken Galbraith asserts (‘Veil of secrecy’, Opinions, February 26) that an information flyer about Kyneton Airfield is not credible. He used his own interpretation of the role of just one group of scientific studies establishing that Chicago’s airport causes significant harm to health to try to discredit all the other pertinent facts…