BELOW is a selection of comments made by readers during the past week, reprinted as they appear on the BDN website and Facebook page.
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They repeal the Carbon Tax and look what happens!
Ian Irvin
glad im not drivin over the mountain.. bad enough with ice and deer on the rd usually
Andrew Wood
I'm glad to see someone else acknowledge deer - first time I saw one on that road I thought I'd hallucinated it, LOL!
Heather Scotland
Thats some nice work and a great design. I hope you find your board Sam.
Tony Cullinan
Awful tragedy that should never have happened and very hopefully never again. Australia and the world mourning the loss of innocent souls. We are all feeling for the families. Having recently taken similar flight path from Europe a few months ago I feel fortunate and grateful nothing happened to us. Why take risk of flightpaths over questionable war affected zones? Why wasn't the flight warned or cautioned? Heads will roll and we will get international justice for these lives. Appalling
Andrew O'Donnell
When I look down
I see earth as a planet
one big beautiful system
preserved in a thin blanket of gas
fragile and venerable in space
When I look out
I see the sun as a star, not in the blue sky but in black
a cosmic perspective
a larger perspective
we are in space
when I look down
I see earth
I see home
I see our destructive approach to life is reckless
there is little between us and a black space that goes on forever
Steve Jackson
Best thing to happen to Australia and may the greens rot in hell
Peter Hill
I thought Bega Valley said No to Violence. Tell me please where are these women to go?
Jo Bugden-Roberts
Pathetic that women & children are to be turned away from safety & by the name of the new service being returned to the situation they've fled!
Bev Davies
The Bega Valley's rates of domestic violence are higher than the NSW average yet we now see not only the Specialist Women's DV Service not winning the tender, but a decrease in funding for the Bega Valley for women and children escaping violence. This is a cynical and cruel Government exercise in saving money. Once again women's and children's lives are being controlled by greed, power and isolationist tactics. I am angry, as are many people across our Valley. This has happened all over NSW and we should be and are appalled. This is unacceptable, as is domestic violence. This government does not understand domestic violence and we will all be affected by these decisions.
Sukalpa Goldflam
Surely I won't be popular for this, but what refuge is there for men? People are talking about dealing with homelessness as a general issue as if it's a bad thing. If Mission Australia won the tender, then clearly they put their hat in the ring and want to do the job. They've barely started, yet people are already judging them.
Curious