Clearly they seem to be happy to eat his lovegrass, which is also widespread.

I've lived locally around wombats for nearly 30 years, so know about the difficulties, but they are native and suffer terribly from introduced mange and road kill.

From the photo it appears the farmer has not dealt with some bank erosion that is not due to wombat incursion. Tree and shrub planting would be recommended to help stabilise.

Let's hope that the shooters he employs get the foxes, rabbits and cats only in future!    

During my recent overseas visit in Germany and Beijing I noticed my swollen finger joints were less red and painful and were less swollen within a month, despite heavy lifting of buckets at an archaeological excavation or suitcases and rucksacks while travelling.

After two days back in Australia, not even having started my normal work, my fingers started hurting again.

The only thing I really eliminated during our overseas stay was Tathra tap water!

All those findings fit the description of water fluoridation, which I received during information evenings in May.

The videos were exposing the health risks to our inner organs, bones, brain, kidneys, thyroid and teeth from hydrofluorosilicic acid, a toxic waste product of the phosphate fertiliser industry, which is added to our drinking water. No other medication would ever be given to patients without their consent, nor regular tests, nor controlled dose.

The WHO set an upper limit for the concentration that can be added, but not any limit for how many glasses of water we can drink or babies would be allowed to intake with formula.

Dentists never examine the rest of the body of their patients. They only were able to prove that fluoride has a positive effect on teeth, when topically applied. Tooth paste contains the warning on the package: “Do NOT swallow”.

USA just reduced the upper limit of fluoride in drinking water, because over 60 per cent of its population shows signs of fluorosis – toxic effects of too much fluoride – especially in low-income areas, where people can’t afford bottled water. 

Ninety-seven per cent of European countries opted not to fluoridate their water, but had the same reduction of caries over the last 60 years by focussing on dental hygiene and dental care.

It is important to inform ourselves properly from real research by professional toxicologists, not propaganda from dentists, who are paid by the industry to promote a toxic waste product.

I am writing on behalf of The Salvation Army, inviting your readers to consider getting involved in a great project that helps raise money in the fight against youth homelessness in Australia.

So much homelessness actually happens on a couch, on a spare mattress, in a car or at a refuge – what is referred to as hidden homelessness.

Shocking figures show that 42 per cent of Australia’s homeless community is under the age of 25, yet only three per cent are actually living on the streets.  

The idea of “The Couch Project” is for local people in your area to spend a night on a couch to get a sense of what it might feel like to be homeless.

By doing so, you can ask people to sponsor you and help raise funds for The Salvation Army’s youth homelessness services.

For more information, go to thecouchproject.com.au or call 13 SALVOS (13 72 58).