Informed youth
Congratulations to all the Bega Valley schools who had students participate in the Climate Strike on March 15. Goal 2 of the Melbourne Declaration (the document that the Australian Curriculum is based on) is that students become successful learners, confident and creative individuals and active and informed citizens. We saw these informed and engaged students and their supporters across Australia and in Bega on Friday.
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Vivian Harris
I have seen the light
Politics is all about making families and homes the best they can possibly be for all Australians. So in the coming state election for the first time in 54 years I will be voting for a female candidate. Has nothing to do with gender equity, but a lot to do with a greater capacity for compassion, empathy, love and understanding, which is what life is all about.
The reason I won't be voting for a male candidate is all they care about is their egos, power and process. They don't care about the other "P" word, people.
I will bet in most houses the female partner is supplying most of the love, care and understanding. Most fellas, me included, tend to arbitrate whereas our partners negotiate. Women by nature are carers and nurturers, which is what politics so sadly lacks. In households they wield a lot of unnoticed power, not noticed because it is a lot more subtle.
I have shaken hands with a lot of important people including the Pope and the only person on the planet who worries me is the wife. If I ask her how she is going and she says "Okay", I know I have done something I don't know about yet.
Most male politicians derive their enjoyment from the fight, where female politicians get most of their enjoyment from a good result. I strongly believe more female politicians means more and better staffed hospitals, schools, aged care facilities and less wastage on exorbitantly priced sporting facilities for a select few
Frank Pearce, Bega
Matter of trust
The current ocean outfall sewage treatment for Merimbula is a matter of trust.
We, the residents of Bega Valley Shire, should trust the elected council and their appointed experts and specialists (both local and those from further afield). They have carefully investigated and researched all the options for the sewage treatment. They have taken considerable time to do so.
We should trust the specialists' advice - based on education, training, science and years of experience. They are employed by the council to make decisions that benefit Bega Valley Shire, not ones to hinder or ruin the shire and its residents.
We should be thanking the council for employing these experts and specialists and for considering all options available. We should be thanking them for diligence, thoroughness and preparedness. We should be listening to and then heeding the advice of the Bega Valley Shire Council and its team of scientists for this important issue.
Jenny Weber, Bega
Change long overdue
The Cardinal Pell affair is done and dusted. Unless the secret society within the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church is busted wide open the whole exercise will be a failure. Perpetrators of sexual abuse against children have been protected and victims have been compensated by large amounts of money.
Surely the Roman Catholic community should be made aware of the amount of shush money paid to sexually abused victims, also the Australian Taxation Office, or is this tax free money?
Both the community and the victims of sexual abuse have been let down by the hierarchy within the Roman Catholic Church, time for a change is long overdue.
