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The Age
Saturday August 29, 2009
I FAIL to see how not grabbing the parking spot next to me is crucial to stopping deaths and injuries on the road! Luc Tardif, Camberwell AFLCONGRATULATIONS to the AFL for making netball the No. 1 physical contact sport in Australia!Bruce McMillan, GrovedaleTHE AFL Appeals Tribunal has given the bump the bump.Michael Freeman, South CroydonWELL done, Andrew. You will look back in years to come and reflect on your shameful legacy in turning the game into a variation of basketball. Non-contact football. What a joke!Chris Braden, EildonBrown MountainWOULD those former politicians so worried about our artistic heritage take a stand for our endangered species at Brown Mountain. Surely our natural heritage is just as important.Colin Smith, MurrumbeenaREMOVE forest, habitat, plants, animals and ecosystems? I say remove Mr Jennings and an out-of-touch Government. Save Brown Mountain.Nea Gyorffy, MalmsburyWHAT an inconvenient truth for foresters and pollies when the potoroo arrived. Pity it was left to volunteers' cameras to capture the evidence. What else is hiding out there? If left to government, we'd never know.Rose Read, BentleighElsewhere"CROWN jewels turn to paste" (The Age, 28/8). Mug punters 1 €” Packer 0.Roger Green, Ferntree GullyIT IS only fitting for the US to be part of the solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis. It helped establish Iran's first nuclear program under the "Atoms for Peace" program in the 1950s.Glenn Horne, Forest HillsWITH China admitting that organs have been taken from executed prisoners, it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "an eye for an eye".Bryan Fraser, St KildaWHAT a pleasure to read the beautiful "Father of the Year" article on your front page. At last you have your priorities right €” no footballers! Thank you.Marjorie Humm, Croydon NorthWELL done, Australia. Just ensure the $720 spent annually on Brazilians (The Age, 26/8) gets to Task Brazil Trust. Save street kids in Rio and spare your follicles.Clive Davies, BrightonNEW Victorian number plate tag line: "Victoria €“ The Place to Bash."Peter Worcester, Glen IrisGET over it, Peter. Sail off into the sunset with Admiral Nelson.Merle Murray, AlexandraTED Bail-who says he doesn't comment on polls. Obviously he doesn't read them, either. That may be why he's still there in the fog, invisible to us all.Richard Pearse, Hawthorn East
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