John Peel composes: To price quote another person (Barry Humphries?), who could offer a wombat’s fart if or where the Commonwealth Games are held (“The video games’ up: Dan Andrews saves Victoria from his own stupidity”)? I pity our enthusiastic and mega-talented professional athletes however their opportunities will come somewhere else and in a much fairer environment. Essentially, the video games’ appeal here is everything about whether Australia can win more gold medals than the Isle of Wight. Definitely thrilling for some, no doubt, however the rest people will stay sound asleep. Graham Johnson composes: Even a fast evaluation of the history of the Commonwealth Games reveals it to be a remaining of another time that is gradually passing away. Controlled by 2 or 3 nations and significantly hosted just by cities from those 3 nations, it has actually merely passed its use-by date. If the cancellation of the Victorian video games induces a discussion about the requirement to continue them, that’s a good idea. Offered the altering market structure of the Australian population to a much higher existence of people with a household background in Asia, certainly the Asian Games are of higher importance. Colin McCormac composes: Cancelling the Commonwealth Games was the best thing to do. The “British Commonwealth” is a worthless group of nations left over from colonial times. Why not hold them every 4 years in London? That’s allegedly the centre of the Commonwealth. David Simpson composes: Now that Victoria has actually made the rational choice about the video games, it must turn the exact same lens to the F1 GP. Every year the F1 GP produces more disturbance and loses taxpayers more cash– a non-earning financial investment that this indebted state can ill manage. The option is to buy the local Victorian economy by moving the F1 GP to Phillip Island. The majority of the facilities is currently there and it’s a remarkably photogenic track. Lower expense = greater returns = much better financial investment for all Victorians. Win-win. A canine’s life Melissa Harrison composes: As president of Free the Hounds I have actually been greatly associated with discovering greyhounds that have actually been, and still are being, exported to China from Australia, and was sickened to read this story (“‘Feel-good’ greyhound story disguises a market indifferent to overbreeding”). Certainly Americans can discover another type of canine to have as an animal. I’m sure the spin over there is that these bad pets have no place to go, instead of the truth that we are overbreeding them to such a level we can’t discover them houses here. When it comes to the most recent male to strike China, he has actually currently serviced more than 35 dams there, in a nation with nearly no animal well-being laws, a nation where greyhounds are not even permitted into its capital or its other biggest cities. When will somebody lastly reveal why greyhound racing has such a hold over the federal governments of this nation? It can’t be for the cash– reports by research study experts IER state what the market spits out and the federal government takes in are rubbish, and here in WA, Racing and Wagering Western Australia is within the federal government. Peta Akester composes: I was disappointed to check out the story about the saved “retired” greyhounds being sent out to the United States with no genuine vetting of the method the program will be run there. What will end up being of those pets considered inappropriate to be rehomed? All of us understand of one. I’ve have had some really suspicious characters however have actually continued with my hounds. I make sure there are no little kids around them which they are not interrupted while sleeping (as I have had one young boy who suffered really terribly from “sleep stun” and would try to bite my face off if disrupted while sleeping). I strongly think the greyhound racing market must be required to stop reproducing, however it requires to be policed by an outdoors body. Surprise check require to be performed on all racing individuals. I think that racing must be shut down. Lyn Payne composes: As the prejudiced owner of an 11-year-old greyhound, I state greyhound racing needs to stop. Complete stop. Susan Berryman composes: The greyhound racing market has well and really showed that it will not take animal well-being seriously, even after the reports and research studies and analysis it has actually gone through. The only method gross overbreeding will be stopped is if the market is required to and understands there will be severe effects for non-compliance. The market is resistant to alter and a lot of the suggestions of the evaluation that followed the tried racing restriction in NSW are still not executed. As no cap on reproducing there is no whole-of-life tracking so pet dogs can still vanish. Greyhounds are still exported to China where there are no well-being laws, no rehoming requirements and no tracking. Of the pets rehomed in Australia, a lot of are rehomed through charities that count on volunteers and contributions instead of through market bodies. Regardless of studies revealing that the majority of people do not support greyhound racing, our state federal governments (apart from the ACT) continue to prop up this vicious market since they are addicted to the income from betting. These lovely pet dogs are worthy of much better. Here’s your hat, what’s your rush … Steve Brennan composes: Philip Lowe packed it up severely, and in my view resembled an extension of the terrible Coalition federal governments we have actually had for the previous 10 years, like icing on a stack of dung (“Why Lowe needed to go”). Let’s face it. His deceptive declarations about rate of interest were unforgivable and the complete consequences of his “guidance” are still yet to be felt. Contributed to that, in doing this he tossed fuel on the fire of blowing up home costs. Clearly the banks liked all this. He moved late on raising rates and after that embraced the story that incomes were to blame for inflation, which blind Freddie understood was incorrect. After years of structural wage suppression, he had the audacity to prosecute this claim while common folk were bleeding. All of us might see revenue gouging was and is driving inflation, as are external aspects. He definitely needed to go. He had absolutely no trustworthiness in the eyes of common individuals, and I picture numerous good financial experts. Treasurer Jim Chalmers is ridiculous for taking this man to a G20 conference– plainly a goodbye junket. A minimum of the Labor federal government has actually eliminated this clown– one good idea it’s done. Damien Westbrook composes: Lowe is a sign, not the cause. Colin Ross composes: On the concern of organization revenues, provides dissembling rubbish. Revenue margins, revealed as a portion, might not have actually burnt out however earnings have since they originate from a larger base filled up with greater input expenses. The quicker Lowe goes the much better. A finding out experience Barry Welch composes: Re “Won’t someone consider the kids? Qld LNP votes no to consent education”. As the P&C president at a main school on the Darling Downs in the late ’80s and early ’90s, I needed to handle virulent opposition to presenting sex education from regional right-wingers and some linked to the Christian ministry Logos Foundation. The primary argument they provided at the P&C was that sex education would motivate bestiality since ladies would discover they would not get pregnant from sex with animals (obviously a line from the John Birch Society, the American conservative political advocacy group). At that point, those in favour of sex education won the vote.
It’s gold for Dan Andrews! Commonwealth Games should now be a distant memory
