TERRIBLE TIMING
I would like to put my view across on the lack of thought put into doing the upgrade of Welsford Street Shepparton at this time of the year. We are close to Christmas and it is hard enough to get people into the CBD as it is, without this ridiculous closure. Also at the moment with the floods there is only one way into Shepparton from Mooroopna.The pick up for school kids is also a nightmare with the secondary schools being up the north end. Buses and parents trying to get home is very time consuming and frustrating. I cannot see why this could not have started 1st week of January when the road usage is lessened. I know contractors have been booked but whoever is in charge has no idea the havoc this is causing. Those responsible need to have a good look at it and maybe try to put it off for a month. It really is not good enough.
Anne Finn
Shepparton
OPPOSED TO ENERGY COMMENT
Congratulations to Rob Bryant on his letter in the November 16 edition. While many, I’m sure, agree wholeheartedly, I hope that those undecided voters will take note of his thoughts and consider seriously voting against the current government.
We cannot afford another four years of Daniel Andrews and the damage he will inflict on Victoria
Terri Jackson
Shepparton
MOOROOPNA WOES
We have lived in Mooroopna for 40 years and the constant problem with flash flooding has been here all this time. Every time when there is a heavy rain event, the street starts to flood. Going back to when Mooroopna was part of the Shire of Rodney, they were going to investigate the situation, but nothing was done and still the City of Greater Shepparton have not been able to come up with a solution.
The problem is that we do not have a local councillor representing us on the Greater Shepparton City Council, which is caused by not having wards across the municipality of GSCC. This is a State Government issue but Suzanna Sheed our local member has not taken this up with the Minister for Local Government.
Toolamba Road outside St Mary’s oval is a disgrace, GSCC says it is a state government road and again, as the school children get on and get off the school bus through the flooded gutter and broken curbing, nothing has been done.
I read in Suzanna Sheed’s political manifesto about a future for the Mooroopna Secondary School site. There is a good use for it, a secondary school for the students of Mooroopna. Within the Mooroopna area there is six primary schools and more surrounding them. For a town of over 8,000 people what we need is a Secondary College.
Ms Sheed, I ask you, if you want to do your job properly, and look after the people you represent?
Chris Clark
Mooroopna.
THE CULT OF DAN ANDREWS
ON Wednesday, November 16, Peta Credlin hosted a documentary titled ‘The Cult of Daniel Andrews,’ where she interviewed many people with inside information about how Daniel Andrews rules his government with an iron fist and deals very severely with dissent. He is firmly in control and dislikes transparency and accountability.
A former female minister explained how the premier controls the Labor Party and indeed the whole state including children’s playgrounds. He appoints his own staff members to head up departments with yes men who may not be the best qualified for the job. Former chief police commissioner Mr Kel Glare was interviewed and claimed that the present government was the worst government he had seen in his 82 years.
Police have arrested and handcuffed a pregnant mother in her home in front of her children for a post on the internet, police have fired rubber bullets at protesters resulting in hospitalisation. The police involvement with lawyer X, the failure to properly pursue corruption allegations with red shirts, hotel quarantine and the Slug Gate conflict of interests and planting the slug is a disgrace.
For a business to be closed down and ruined and 40 people put out of work on allegedly manufactured evidence by the chief health officer and Dandenong Council CEO with a conflict of interest is also a disgrace – they brought 90 charges forward and were all thrown out of court. There should be accountability.
Daniel Andrews relied on four independents to give himself harsh emergency powers which included 263 days of curfews with the worst outcomes of any state.
With debt levels exceeding NSW, QLD and Tasmania combined, how can we survive another four years?
N.T Sims
Kialla
