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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
Now the election result for our local area is known, I would like to congratulate Rowan Ramsey for winning the seat. The only problem that should concern us, is Grey has now again become a safe seat.
We will again be taken for granted by the major parties. This will mean when the next election is called, Mr Ramsey will still be confronted with the same issues he brought up at this election. These are not new issues. They have been around for years, but safe seats are ignored, as it is hard for the sitting member to lose their seat and the opposition knows that it’s almost impossible to win them, so they don’t bother with them.
I just hope Mr Ramsey makes enough noise in Canberra to be noticed, which I’m sure he will do, but that doesn’t mean he will be heard.
Hopefully those independents will alert the city-based politicians that people in the country also pay taxes and should not be overlooked.
Then again, those three men do live on the eastern seaboard so we will most probably miss out on any prospects of funding for major upgrades here.
Barbara Nemeth
Wallaroo |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
To do with the police presence we had here in Kadina trying to put us all straight on how to obey the law, as in driving and our vehicles.
I find it highly offensive after being subjected to my car being gone over and my licence being checked only to be told, after them not being able to defect it, my car was too dirty.
The car was not covered in mud, it was appropriate for this time of year, as in the tail lights were perfectly visible, windows clear and that goes to prove to me they just need to find something.
I am finding myself with a lack of trust in our SA Police and it’s about time they went out there and started catching real criminals and do the job they are supposed to do!
A. Butcher
Kadina |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
I am absolutely appalled at the Adelaide police attitude here on Yorke Peninsula during the past week, I don’t know what they think they are doing when we are supposedly a democratic society.
What do they want us to think about them when they go into car parks and apply expiation notices to people going about their normal business, i.e. shopping, but we can’t do that because we have “unsecured loads”, unless we place said groceries in the boot of our car.
Or maybe a can of paint in the tray of the ute, tsk, tsk.
We have crimes mounting weekly in the metropolitan area, gun and knife types prevalent, but no, we are terrible unlawful people here, we might indicate to go right and turn left, or come off a dirt road after rain, only to be pulled up by a police officer who says, “I can’t see your rear number plate”, what is going on here?
I thought we were a democratic society, but we are becoming more like a police state every day, I put up with this when I lived in Queensland under the claims “don’t you worry about that”.
Mike Serotzki
Moonta |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
With the recent election focusing so much on marginal seats in the eastern parts of Australia, it has become increasingly apparent to me unless the electorate of Grey becomes a marginal seat we will never see improvements of the serious local issues we face.
It would seem to me the differences in the policies between the Labor and Liberal Parties are so minimal, it’s difficult to know if it would make much difference to our lives as a whole, no matter who governs.
We need to become a marginal electorate to actually see some real action that results in allowing our electorate to feel like we are “moving forward”.
This is especially with many of the basic issues such as improving roads, health and infrastructure services.
I want to challenge the voters in this and any safe electorate, federal and state, to try and focus on making the seat we vote in as marginal as possible.
I propose — maybe in jest — that when we vote next, which could be sooner rather than later I fear, each family unit evenly spread their household vote, one Liberal, one Labor.
Furthermore to vote in a manner as indicated on that party’s how to vote card.
I also propose for each single person to link with another single to do the same.
I believe this would then bring the seat into one of the most marginal seats in Australia.
Believe me if that happens you’ll see real action and the community moving forward in ways we have never seen before.
Then we will know at least our local member will be earning his crust.
Rob Casburn
Kadina |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
Your editorial Independents Day (YPCT 24-8-10) suggests “if these four players (three independents and one Green) look ahead to the next (federal) election they will try and strike a deal which will benefit their electorate and ensure their re-election when Australia goes to the polls again in three years”.
You may well be right but at the state level, Karlene Maywald was once wooed by a deal into a Labor government as Minister for the River Murray.
She lost her seat in the last election and left behind a very disgruntled electorate. So much for such political deals.
You also rightly mention the plight of Yorke Peninsula’s roads which I doubt will ever attract much political attention in Canberra because a safe Liberal seat in Grey means the overwhelming majority of voters are content with Liberal Party representation and the Labor Party has other priorities.
Only a closer electoral contest will change that.
Neil Longbottom
Minlaton |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
The recent visit and traffic blitz by members of the SAPOL Traffic Division from Adelaide has been an absolute disaster for police public relations on Yorke Peninsula.
Anecdotal evidence of visiting traffic police officers issuing substantial fines for minor, non life-threatening traffic offences are rife in the Copper Triangle district and also further away.
Comments such as “overbearing, intimidating, petty, rude, offensive, bullying, uncaring, insensitive” are just some of the words used to describe these visiting officers, other words are unprintable.
Stories include an 80-year-old lady booked for starting her car, but remaining stationary prior to putting on her seatbelt, driving too close to a white line, a lady driving off a farm onto the bitumen with a muddy number plate, a lad placing a slab of beer in the back of his ute booked for an insecure load.
As a former police officer I am aware of the public support that assists many police inquiries, also the good work Crime Stoppers does. Petty-minded police officers fining law abiding citizens rather than issuing a courteous warning does nothing to promote good public relations.
The local Kadina police are held in high repute by our local community. It is hoped this situation will continue and perhaps a statement from the officer in charge of the Traffic Division, Adelaide, may clear up any pre-conceived ideas our local community may have about members from the Kadina police being involved in this PR disaster.
Let us all continue to support our local cops.
Keith Buck
Wallaroo Mines |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
As a community we should all, and I think most of us do, respect our local police team who are more than likely pushing the proverbial uphill when it comes to doing their job.
More local police for our district to look after and protect us, to enforce the law justly and with respect because that’s what local police do.
They live with us, socialise with us, and ping us when we do wrong, and I am sure we respect them for doing their job.
But, when you get a team of 16 in from Adelaide who treat us as they have, who think they can book anyone for anything and just revenue raise as much as possible and then return home and leave our locality in a state of shock, reeling from the effects for weeks, it is an unacceptable situation that must be prevented from occurring again.
Bernie Wartenberg
Kadina |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
With SA Police targeting Yorke Peninsula recently and the road safety group’s 100 Eyes Program it is pleasing to see most motorists taking notice, but it seems whatever they do to keep our roads safe there is still a large group of drivers that ignore the basics.
So the ones who take no notice of the speed limits around Port Broughton it is not if but when you get caught.
D. Anderson
Port Broughton |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 |
How wonderful it is to be giving the District Council of the Copper Coast a vote of thanks and saying well done to Jeff Miller and his band of merry workers.
They collectively responded to a query I had raised with the chief executive officer and in three days transformed what was an eyesore and a mud patch into what will become a garden and a track into a four-lane highway (that is how it looks to me).
So congratulations Mr Dinning for your response and my heartfelt thanks to Jeff and his men for doing the job so well.
Jim Parsonage
Wallaroo Mines |
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