OPEN SPACE KEY FOR FUTURE
While a candidate in the February council byelection, I walked every street in Griffith hand-delivering 8,000 leaflets and flyers to all residence.
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Of the flyers I handed out, 2,500 flyers went to medium and high-density housing; flats, units and complexes.
While Griffith considers itself to be a country town, with lots of space and amenities, one quarter of the residents currently live in medium and high-density housing and are missing out on open space and not effectively accommodated for.
I believe our high-density housing areas are not serviced effectively. Our community needs to invest more in parks, public areas, safe walkways and street beautification to ensure the quality of lives of all the people who live in our town meets the expectation one would have from rural life.
Indeed, for our town to remain productive into the future, we need to make sure the people doing the work in our community (not just the rich) are happy and want to live and work here.
Greg Adamson, Griffith
BABIES HAVE NO CHOICE
On July 7 2019 those who were so keen to pass an abortion law to decriminalise it on the grounds of a woman's right of complete control of her own body was ruled as OK under false pretences.
Firstly she already has control over her own body. She has the option of contraceptive control to avoid conception.
To ignore this and conceive this law law allows her to be excused and then to destroy the child at any stage of its development even unto 22 weeks, her second choice over her own body. Backyard abortions no longer are required.
Abortion has been allowed if the mother's life is at risk of death or some mongrel has violated her through rape or scan reveals a developing child displaying gross abnormalities that warrant early terminations.
Therefore this law is not really warranted at all as 80,000 abortions were carried out last year alone and let's not pretend that 80,000 mothers lives were at risk other than the three genuine reasons already catered for. Those abortions (the majority of them) were abortions of convenience. This law just passed just justifies them as being okay.
Only 39 votes spoke up in defence of unborn babies who couldn't speak for themselves, babies who didn't ask to be conceived yet suffered before and will suffer even more so in the future for their mother's decisions to destroy them as being an obstructive inconvenience in their lives.
When we consider all those who might have been able to adopt these babies had they been allowed to live their lives could have been saved.
Let's hope the upper house are more wise in their decision and quash this abortion law before our already dysfunctional society stoops to an even more disgraceful level than what it already has with so many unfavourable decisions not in the best interest of the unborn child.
It is understandable that adults who suffer are able to make choices at the end of their lives as they see it to be, should euthanasia be the next introduction on the agenda, babies don't get this right of choice.
It's time the rights of the child act included their rights in a clause of legality for no one needs it more than they do.
Yvonne Rance, Griffith
HORSES THREATEN RIVERS
At last there is a voice in the NSW Parliament coming from other than Labor or the Greens expressing concern about the damage being done to the catchments of the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers by feral horses.
Helen Dalton, Member for Murray spoke in favour a tabling a 12,000 plus signature petition calling on the Coalition to repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act.
The Governments response led by Nationals, John Barilaro was to call a division so that the Coalition voted not to allow the petition to be even tabled, an extraordinary act of arrogance. Well done Helen.
Carolyn Pettigrew, Turramurra
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