Can you please ensure you use Australian grown produce use in these products as much as possible. Clean, green Australian food, primary and manufactured is what we all want.

I used to always buy Bega cheese, but when the Muslim emblem was put on it, I have never bought it since. So are you still going to support the Muslims?

Is it the money that's important?

"A million dollars for each black person and then we can talk treaty." [reportedly said by Aboriginal activist Gwenda Stanley in Sydney's Domain rally on January 26]

Those words have just pushed back the Aboriginal case - for whatever the cause may happen to be - by at least 10 years.

With the problems facing our community other possibly less significant issues can be overlooked.

The provision of health care is one of these and an area in which failings are going unaddressed. Nurses stood down for patient advocacy and appropriate treatment delivery because it occurs "outside their scope of practice".

Two physicians and a paediatrician leave despite moving here with their families because SERH management is not prepared to provide the resources to improve service delivery.

This is on the back of, is it two or three inquiries, into the operation of the hospital and loss of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Phoon.

The reactive rather than proactive, the dictatorial rather than consultative approach, is not the way to build a service orientated business. Failings are an opportunity to review and improve this does not occur in a "blame environment".

When patient advocacy and appropriate care delivery is rejected because of procedural guidelines there is a problem. Where people are blamed for operational failings then this is a problem.

I hope SERH awakes to its failings before we have a major issue with patient care. As has occurred with not infrequent regularity elsewhere.

"Forestry funding for Eden-Monaro" (11/1) informs us of the latest round of cash gifts from taxpayers to the logging industry.

Some readers may be finding it hard to keep a tally of the accumulating millions being handed out to industry so it can continue to log our forests for woodchips.

The flood of announcements certainly has been bewildering, especially when some grants have been announced more than once and many have been under the guise of "bushfire recovery".

If you are one of those having trouble, this page has most of them www.chipstop.savetheforests.org.au/subsidies.htm

I wondered if the local community had read that the federal government has taken funds from the Bushfire Recovery Fund and handed over $10million to billionaire Anthony Pratt of Visy.

Given that I have myself been involved in bushfire recovery in Victoria in 2009, I am horrified that funds go to a business man in New York.

To date, I have had no response from the Labor opposition, as they receive over a million dollars in funds from the Pratt Foundation. What is happening to this country?

Rex has always operated regional Australia when no-one else would do so. They may have been dearer but were always available.

Now Qantas wants to move in. Why?

Maybe because of virus and downturn of business, promising cheaper fares to begin with is really a good business model. Extra large planes now runway extended as well.

As an eighth generation Australian I for one will not use Qantas. Never there in the past for all the regional and outback towns I have lived in. I will drive instead.

So thanks for doing the wrong thing by Rex. They deserve better.