...and Another Thing

The Age

Thursday August 28, 2008

WE'VE got rainwater tanks. We're just waiting for a charge to be levied by water managers for diverting their water, thus causing them to lose revenue because they can't sell us so much of their product. Roger Green, Ferntree Gully

Water

TIM Holding has scrapped the First Mildura Irrigation Trust because it let down the community of Mildura with its poor decisions and an unlawful investment. What future plans do you have for Premier Brumby, Mr Holding?

Nola Martin, Preston

MR BRUMBY, forget the north-south pipeline and channel the funds into the hospital system. That way the children will get a chance to recover their health and so will the rivers.

Rod Canning, Yea

IF MANY pensioners and others on low incomes could afford to, they'd gladly install rainwater tanks with small pumps and solar power devices on their roofs. What puzzles them, though, is why such apparently simple equipment is so horribly expensive.

Jean Menere, Albury

Truants and welfare

NOW, let's see. Who is going to police the "school for the dole" scheme? Why, the teachers of course. Just another little task on behalf of the social engineers in far away Canberra to make their jobs even more difficult.

Brian Sanaghan, West Preston

IF THE children of wealthy parents are truant, what punishment is the Government going to mete out - a slap on the wrist?

Michael Freeman, South Croydon

Olympic medals

ACTUALLY, Barry Hocking (Letters, 27/8) Australia didn't come first in the ranking of medals per million population at Beijing. Jamaica did.

Gordon Drennan, Burton, SA

LET's not forget that Great Britain's medal tally of 47 includes medallists from four countries - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Australasia's medal tally was 55.

Laurence Young, Monash, ACT

On other topics

CELEBRATING 100 years of Bradman highlights a missed opportunity. Surely the celebrations should have been on August 6 - the date the Don would have turned 99.94.

Paul Breen, Clayton

THE woman who looks down her nose at most of Melbourne now admits to being schooled in Reservoir (Comment & Debate, 27/8). What a laugh Catherine Deveny. Noice. Very noice.

Glen Devereux, Pheasant Creek