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Your Say: Tony Pasin MP, Federal Member for Barker, Shadow Assistant Minister Infrastructure and Transport. September is Rural Road Safety Month, an Australian Road Safety Foundation (ARSF) awareness campaign designed to highlight the additional risks that exist when driving on rural and remote roads. Despite fewer than a third of Australia’s population residing in major cities, deaths on rural roads accounted for almost two thirds of the 2022 road toll. In the first eight months of 2023, we have lost 38 lives on South Australian rural roads, ten more than at the same time last year.   The overrepresentation of rural and regional road users in the national fatality and serious injury statistics and the continuing rising road toll is quite obviously cause for real concern. It’s also a key reason why the Federal Government must urgently unlock infrastructure investment and get on with upgrading our regional road network, including the […]

Your Say: Heather Gibbons, Robe. As a response to receiving the referendum booklet I thought I would look up The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA). It is run by a CEO and two deputy CEOs. So if NIAA gets $4.3 billion of taxpayers’ money every year, what are they doing with the money? This Executive Agency’s website tells me and I quote: “The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) vision is to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are heard, recognised and empowered. We recognise each First Nations community is unique. We work in partnership with community to make sure policies, programs and services meet their unique needs. We work to support the Minister for Indigenous Australians.” With the Vision, Purpose, and Responsibilities outlines in the Executive Order, why is the federal government pushing The Voice when “The NIAA works to influence policy across the entire Australian Government. As an […]

Your Say: Ken Grundy. The News headline last issue predicted a “Shake-up for Councils”. Minister for Local Government, Mr Geoff Brock, announced a plan to transform Local Government due to public feeling that Councils could move more to regional authorities or State Government could take over Council duties. Whichever way you look at this it is a move away from governing ourselves locally to a centralist policy. The trend to centralisation is evident everywhere but the results are not encouraging.  For example the horrid WA legislation which prevented a farmer digging a post hole without prior approval from First Nation people was thankfully rescinded but there is already talk of the Federal Government considering implementing similar impositions, making it nation-wide.  From the national perspective Australia and other nations are now complying with policy directions from the United Nations  –  surely the ultimate in centralisation or One World Government.  These policies […]

Your say: Doug Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, The Smith Family. I’m writing to express my deep appreciation and thanks to everyone across South Australia who supported The Smith Family’s 2023 Winter Appeal. It goes without saying that the last few years have been incredibly hard on all Australians – we have gone from the COVID-19 pandemic to the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. Both have had a significant impact on our feeling of stability and our plans for the future. And while many of us are struggling, it’s the Australians who have the least who have been impacted most. Living in economically unstable times is particularly difficult for young people, and this is even more true for children living in poverty. School can be a great constant, and all children should feel confident enough to participate fully, so they can get the most out of their education. We know that […]

Your Say: Cliff Hignett, Naracoorte. The article by Nasik Swami was essentially a free advertorial for the No case in the referendum.  Why is the News passing up advertising revenue? And if you were paid then let’s have it marked ‘advertisement’ please. As I have said on these pages before, Tony Pasin’s opinion has no value.  His No vote has been bought. The Liberal Party was ordered to promote the No case by a faceless, nameless ‘controller’.  There were no meetings of grass-roots Liberal members to discuss the referendum.  There were no meetings of MPs to discuss it.  Did Opposition Leader Peter Dutton summon MPs to Canberra, forbid any discussion, and tell them that they will support the No case or be sacked (two Liberal MPs objected to the party’s stance and chose to resign)? At the last election, the Liberals not only over-spent taxpayer funds, but they overspent their […]

Your Say: Philip Cornish, Bordertown. It is so frustrating to see every time a natural disaster occurs somewhere in the world, that climate change activists jump on the bandwagon to claim more evidence of manmade climate change. To discover what really causes the climate to change, I want to refer to what the Bible reveals about the subject. It not only deals with spiritual matters of life, but reveals so much truth about the world we live in and the heavens above. For example, the Greeks were the first to suggest a round earth. The Romans denied it and drew the earth as a flat disk. Yet centuries before the Greeks, the book of Job (the oldest book in the Bible), suggested a round earth. So also did Isaiah, who refers to “the circle of the earth”. For many centuries man believed the earth was the fixed centre of the […]

Your Say: Charlotte Edmunds, Office of Tony Pasin MP. Assistant Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport and Member for Barker Tony Pasin MP, says the Labor Government’s 90-day infrastructure review is delaying important road safety upgrades as the national road network falls into disrepair with billions of dollars in funding cuts and delays. “The Coalition Government set us on a trajectory of increased investment into road infrastructure, building what was needed for the safe and productive movement of goods and to ensure people get home to their loved ones.” “Not only has the Labor Government disrupted this trajectory, they’ve put the productivity of our road network on pause while we watch the road toll rise and our freight operators struggle with increased input costs. Labor’s infrastructure review is one we didn’t need and in truth, one we can’t afford,” Mr Pasin said. Mr Pasin said the road toll is unacceptably […]

Your Say: Heather Heggie, Naracoorte. The neurological damage from the forever chemicals and others, is well documented now after years of cover ups, and class actions are continuing against the chemical manufacturers. (Watch “Blackwater” starring Mark Ruffalo). Noosa was the first community in Australia to become plastic free and now others are joining the Boomerang […]

 Your Say: Ken Grundy, Naracoorte The impact on the farming community resulting from the legislation in WA requiring aboriginal approval prior to basic farm jobs like fencing is of concern to all farmers across the nation. Already similar restrictions apply in parts of Victoria while other States are likely to follow. Concerns range from simple inconvenience to delays and costs for approval and court challenges ahead.  All of this when we have always considered Native Title is automatically extinguished when freehold is the recognised form of legal tenure. The meaning of rights attached to private property are being deliberately blurred and the good effort from the WA Farmers CEO, Trevor Whittington to seek legal opinion warrants support. WA farmers have provided over $25000 to start the fund. It is high time the Farmer’s Fighting Fund established by farmers forty years ago for examples just like this case, opened its wallet […]

Your Say: Tony Pasin MP On July 25th more than 200 people attended a community forum at the Sir Robert Helpmann organsied and hosted by the Radiation Treatment Limestone Coast Working Party. I was extremely impressed with the event and I wish to commend the Working Party for its organisation. I also wish to congratulate […]

Your Say: Cliff Hignett, Naracoorte  A pamphlet, just received in my mail box, states ‘The Voice – Risky! Unknown! Permanent!’.  Rumour has it that this is just the first of many similar leaflets we will get in addition to the taxpayer-funded YES and NO cases.  A quick read established that the arguments were the same […]