CAREFUL THOUGHT NEEDED
The recent Cardinal Pell appeal was appropriate in its careful deliberation.
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The three High Court judges in their long time wisdom and experience noted those things and drew attention to those things that was necessary to finally reveal the truth.
They will now, in due course, decide which way to run.
Either to quash this verdict, dismiss it altogether and free the Cardinal or run with a re-trial. Either way this case is far from over yet.
Should they opt for the fore such would be the more favourable.
However, were they to opt for the latter this case could drag on for months, even before it is even listed on the court for hearing. One feels they may well opt for the fore.
This would be a comfort to the Cardinal who has already suffered enough ridicule and public speculation in an endeavour by those hellbent on bringing him down to justify the sinful disgraceful behaviour of other clergy who did the deed.
This is more so as is evident of his failing health. This man, so wrongly accused could well prematurely meet his demise as he awaits the extra time, for, finality.
At last his truthful evidence it would seem will be believed and lies that were concocted proven to be an unlikely improbable event.
How timely the millions on the streets in Hong Kong who once had freedom under British rule are now under a communist regime that denies positivity ruling peoples lives on the path to destruction.
We see this same leaning here that is moving away from what was once of good report to that which destroys.
May wisdom here rise to the fore before we too become another Hong Kong communist society of more political correctness as its agenda.
Yvonne Rance, Griffith
WATER OUR BIRTHRIGHT
How many can remember in 2011 the parliamentary committee inquiry into the basin plan that came to the Yoogali Club, chaired by Tony Windsor, how many people gave their submission to the committee.
I was one of them who gave my submission to Tony Zappia MP and said Yoogali had a railway station years ago. My parents arrived from Italy with the floods of 1939 and Griffith was in drought the year before.
The Gillard government ignored the recommendations of Tony Windsor's basin plan inquiry and announced another round of buy-backs, just weeks after the committee called for a halt to non-strategic buybacks, two new tenders are now open in South Australia, Victoria and Queensland.
The latest round will see a further $100 million of government's $3.1 billion program spent purchasing water to return to the environment.
On June 2, the committee delivered a scathing assessment of the program as part of a broader study of the basin plan.
While the key findings were that while the buy-back program can play an important role in water reform it is being implemented in such a way that causes significant harm to the community viability.
The 12 member bi-partisan panel proposed that if the program was to continue the government must identify the impact that purchases will have on regional communities and infrastructure.
At the time federal water minister Tony Burke said the government had already changed to a more strategic approach and stood by the buy-back program.
The government is determined that reform in the Murray Darling Basin restores the river system to health. Who owns the rain that falls on the land?
It has been said that in principle we do, theoretically Australians own all the rain that falls in Australia, the rain becomes a lake, rivers and streams that flow over the land and the underground water that flows beneath it.
That's our water. It's our common property, our birthright and water stored in dams.