On closer inspection of a particular wrapper, it clearly states "made in China, imported by Mars Chocolate Australia".

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Then there are coffee sachets produced by another company that has cleverly disguised their downsizing (15g to 13g per sachet) by producing new packaging and slogan "great new taste". Companies may try to pull the wool over our eyes, but we are no longer that gullible, now are we?

WHILE staying at St Helens recently, the windy weather found me having a fish at Beauty Bay jetty which was nice and sheltered. It was my first visit to the bay post completion of the cycle/walkway around the foreshore from the town.

A very popular pathway as lots of people passed by during my couple of hours stay.

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I was disappointed, however, at the state of the beach itself. What was once a nice sandy, barefoot-friendly beach is now strewn with sharp rock fragments washing out from the pathway. I fear for what it will be like in five to 10 years time. It would seem the council has learned nothing from the disaster that was the walkway constructed below the cliffs at Stieglitz/Chimney Heights. The beach there in the vicinity of Jetty Road was very popular years ago.

With all the folks staying at Hillcrest Caravan Park. It is now not traversable due to the large amount of rockfill material that has washed out of the abandoned, non maintained and collapsed walkway.

Treatment of the natural environment like this is nothing short of vandalism. I am fairly sure the Department of Environment, minister and the police would wish to talk to me if I were going about destroying natural sandy foreshore environs, by dumping truckloads of rock. Where is the accountability on this issue now and into the future?

NAME calling from Peter Whish-Wilson contributes nothing to real climate action (The Examiner, September 22).

As he well knows, only 0.05 per cent of takayna/Tarkine is managed forests and 91 per cent of our old growth is protected.

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Our diversified forestry industry of hard and softwood plantations and regenerative native forestry is not just contributing to solving climate change but is leading the discussion. What we need is more adults around the table to discuss science and less namecalling for political relevance.

IT would be understandable if Western Bulldogs fans are feeling a little bit miffed by the lack of encouragement being shown to their club in the leadup to this week's AFL premiership. Melbourne's 57-year wait for a premiership is a long time, but it should be noted that it was only four years before its 1964 win that they completed a run of seven consecutive grand finals (for five wins), making them by far the most dominant team of the 50s. In that same period (from 1954 till today) the Bulldogs have played in just three deciders for their only two premierships ever. Whoever wins this Saturday, it will be a very emotional grand final.

GRAHAM Tonks (The Examiner, September 21) needs to take a deep breath. The French have no excuse for not being fully across Australia's strategic position, particularly regarding China.

They were more than aware of the developments in the past few years including the SouthChina Sea and Australia-China trade relations let alone Hong Kong and Taiwan issues.

They should also have been aware that nuclear-powered submarines were on our long list for years, but that diesel-electric subs were preferred for various reasons including our lack of and lack of interest in a domestic nuclear energy industry.

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The Chinese behaviour in recent years has fundamentally changed the strategic outlook, not just of this country but of the US, India, Japan as well as European powers such as the UK and France itself.

In that context, the contract gouging conduct of Naval Groups over Australian build content was vexatious in the extreme.

The French hissy fit is just that and more to do with the summary way the contract was terminated and the fact that Macron is facing an election in six months.

Sadly, Macron is not in a position to lash Naval Group's backside as it would be a campaign gift to his opponent Le Pen.

So, when in a bind, blame the outsiders.

As for France, they walked away from NATO for 43 years yet had a pretty big WWI and WWII 'debt' to the US and the UK.

They regularly fall short on supporting allies, Kuwait, Kosovo.

DEFENCE Minister Peter Dutton has claimed that Australia is considering leasing nuclear-powered submarines because ours won't be operational until 2040.

He also emphasised the need to acquire these instruments of war because China was churning them out at an alarming level.

Perhaps the coalition government could salvage some diplomatic and even economic credit if it chose to lease nuclear-powered submarines from the People's Republic of China.