RXL still drawing heat over saleyards
The saleyards developer treats its customers and neighbours with contempt.
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I am not sure how the City of Ballarat can continue to support RLX as the preferred operator / developer the new Ballarat Regional saleyards, a crucial piece of rural infrastructure. RLX have ignored CoBs priorities, Miners Rest residents and now have treated their customers (farmers and agents) with no regard. How can they be trusted not to screw the agents and our farmers to the wall if they get total control the only saleyard facility in the region. The council have washed their hands of any saleyard related responsibility together with any issues that may arise now and into the future. RLX will push up fees (as they have done in Wodonga) and dictate how farmers sell they livestock. How can Miners Rest residents be confident that any issues attributed to operation of the saleyards would be addressed by RLX. They have displayed contempt for Miners Rest with the it anonymous " move the yards" campaign and their bogus phone survey. Hopefully the council will stand up to RLX before they destroy our agents, farmers and the township of Miners Rest all for the benefit of an offshore investment company.
Werner Oellering, Miners Rest
DANGEROUS PRECEDENTS OF UNEQUAL JUSTICE
On the Editorial : A lost opportunity for first steps in healing.
You mention the role of lawyers in this effort to prevent justice. If the above two men concerned are unable to travel, Commissioners and victims should go to them. This could be financed through taxation or by public conscription. The Commission's failure to bring these men to what is very delayed justice sets a dangerous precedent. It will impede all future attempts to end child abuse in all its forms which is so prevalent in Australia. I am willing to establish an online petition and organize crowd funding if necessary.
This decision by the Commission cannot go unchallenged.
Valma McCallum, Alfredton
We have not stopped the boats
"No; we have not "stopped the boats"; we merely reprogrammed ports of departure and arrival, and the seas in which the boats founder. "Criminal," "evil" people smugglers - "scum of the earth" - still profit ... in a different body of water; men, women, children still drown … even more distantly.
This week : 27 migrants, 11 of them children, drowned between Turkey and Greece. Last year: nearly 4,000 water-deaths; about 1-in-4 were children.
In 2015, nearly ONE MILLION people fled Syria, Afghanistan, and other countries where we wage war. Tragically, like most Western nations, we're much better at bombs and bullets, murdering and maiming, than we are at rescuing and rebuilding, salvaging and securing. We create rubble and refugees; we fail to provide adequate assistance or appropriate asylum.
So far in 2016, nearly 55,000 displaced people have taken to those seas ... to become problems or assets for another country. Or to die on their shores.
Immigration Minister Dutton, Secretary Pezzullo, Parliamentarians, and Bureaucrats are merely the visible tip of an evil, criminal, scum-of-the-earth system that we-the-voters empowered to do our dirty work.
If we want a different policy, if we want more humane and humanitarian outcomes, we must change ourselves and our Parliamentarians.
Otherwise, we continue the current model: Outsourced people smugglers; outsourced migrantdeaths; outsourced detention camps; outsourced accountability for detention camps; outsourced humanitarian responsibilities. And we've outsourced our own humanity. May God forgive us all
Judy Bamberger, O'Connor