Tag: Letters to the Editor
Time for subdivision allowance
THE council’s Audit and Risk committee (LGFA) predicted an operating deficit of $1.925 million, a deficit of $1.032 million above what council originally forecasted.
In...
Different dictionaries
TO Jill Polkinghorne,
We must be reading different dictionaries.
The “Collins New English Dictionary” definition of “indigenous” is as follows: “Born or originating in a country”.
I...
Golden handshakes
REGARDING your article on the early departure of ToG CEO Henry Inat, how much extra rate payer revenue was gifted to him as an...
A simple suggestion
I HAD to wipe the tears away reading the story of Mr Julian Midwinter.
How long has this problem been affecting you, Julian?
You say that...
The fact of the matter
I WRITE today in response to comments made by councillor Brian Sambell at an elected member briefing last Wednesday night.
As a former journalist and...
Gawler Fringe a success
A SOCIETY, a culture, a civilisation can be judged as successful and mature by the number of artists that it supports.
Someone more famous than...
Where is the compassion?
ON January 24 I was disturbed at a bus driver’s refusal to take a lady and her five children to near Gawler Central Station...
By definition
TONY Pethick (14/2/24) is disingenuous in claiming that he is an “Indigenous” Australian with four generations of his family born in here.
He has chosen...
Letter to the editor: Indigenous – born or originating a country
IN response to Geoff Drummond 7/2/24. I am a fifth generation Australian with four generations born in Australia, so I classify myself as Indigenous.
I...
Council’s Boundary Reform
I WRITE in response to recent letters by Cr Hennessy and by Cr Phillips-Ryder regarding Gawler council’s problematic and hugely wasteful boundary reform folly.
In...
Willaston kicks goals against blood cancer
THE Willaston Football Club is teaming up with the Leukaemia Foundation to boost support for people living with blood cancer in regional South Australia.
The...
