Letters page
MOST days I briefly look at the letters page and rarely read them because, depending on the name, the content is fairly predictable.
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One or two correspondents air their views on just about everything which makes me wonder why they don’t stand for public office such as their local council.
Others expose their political persuasion usually by attacking opposition parties.
Summing up, I suppose that’s the way it is and while it’s the right of people to air their views, it’s my right to not bother reading them.
I may read my own letter if it gets a guernsey.
G. Leekplikk, Norwood.
Housing
BARNABY Joyce often makes sense, and his statement saying that the only housing problem (affordability) is confined to Melbourne and Sydney, so why are the rest of Australians subjected to the constant whinging of young people who want close access to the big smokes, when there’s plenty to go around elsewhere in the country?
Perhaps a rule should also apply to those whom are migrating is that they are welcome as long as they are willing to be settled exclusively in smaller towns, suburbs and rural areas.
There is far too much attention paid to those two cities basically because that’s where the majority of votes presently exist and neither Labor or Liberal are willing to bite that particular bullet.
And so it continues.
Don Davey, Launceston.
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