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Letter to the Editor - Sydney Morning Herald

Sat, 2007-02-03 00:34 — Cyber Activist

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Dear Editor,

I view the article "Future is Coal and Nuclear, says Howard" as "Coal and Nuclear Industry Propaganda" and
wonder if these industries paid the Herald for the advertising space?

John Howard's "climate change addressing" energy policies are NOT what Australians want or NEED at this critical time in earth's climatic history. He must face the reality and truth about climate change and our energy supply alternatives. Our energy taxes must be used to give Australian people the REAL energy solutions they need NOW. Not a continuation of the nest feathering towards industries that are destroying our planet and all her occupants as I write.

Clean and sustainable energy technology exists that can replace both of these energy industries. Nuclear power is not safe, and it never will be. The Coal industry must be phased out if our planet is to continue to exist as we know it.

WHAT ABOUT : Solar, Tidal, Wave and the massive energy supplies waiting to be tapped from directly under our feet? Geothermal. Combinations of these energy supply sources CAN supply our energy needs and in the process of giving natural, safe, sustainable energy supplies, will curb our Carbon Dioxide emissions and create jobs in new industry. New industries creating energy supplies that can give BACK to the grid from individual properties is what Australia (and our fragile planet) needs.

John Howard is a fool. I hope the majority will cease to blindly follow at the next federal election.

Anne Goddard

Comments

Sun, 2009-12-20 15:05 — P. G. Brown (not verified)

Uganda

Dear Editor
You are undoubtedly aware that Uganda is proposing fierce new laws whose explicit aim is to either put in jail or put to death all gay people in that country. This is being supported by the Anglican Church there. Since the Archbishop of Sydney has been very vociferous in encouraging anti-gay rhetoric in Africa and is friends with the Anglican Archbishop there, has he and the diocese of Sydney joined the Archbishop of Canterbury in publically denouncing these abhorrent new laws or does he support them?

Thu, 2009-09-10 13:19 — VinceR (not verified)

SRF's rip off

On the 20th many residents in their institutions will receive $65 per forthnight, but to dismay of all,,,it will all be garbbed by these new elite The SRF's Milionaires, without any discussion, and no accountability.
IF THEY WERE CORRECTLY inspected ,many of them would be wearing orange attire and reside at Her Majesty;s pleasure, but the poor will always be poor
Vince
Lets Let Politicians know; we are not AMUSED

Mon, 2009-04-27 10:42 — Raymond J Warren (not verified)

Wildfires/Bushfires

THE SILENCE OF TWO HUNDRED
A Tribute to the victims of Wildfires/Bush fires everywhere
February 2009
Raymond J Warren

Lone bird flying o’er the land, not knowing whence or where,
Her mate has gone midst flame and wind, that she could not share.
Their nesting tree where was it now? It surely has not crumbled,
Only blackened sticks below and the silence of two hundred.

It seems like many years ago, when voices laughed and spoke,
Before the heat, the fierce wind and that cloudy choking smoke.
Where Goanna ran up trees of green and Koalas never numbered
But all is quiet in the bush, with the silence of two hundred.

Once they lived together all, in bush land so serene,
When normal rain kept it there, growing evergreen.
But then the savagery of drought, of bush too little lumbered
And terror witnessed only by, the silence of two hundred

The orange glow has gone now, the birds have gone to rest,
A haze is on horizon and black silhouettes ride each crest.
The air is still and cooling and the earth is ere encumbered,
For nothing now will ever change, the silence of two hundred.

Lone bird flying o’er the land not knowing whence or where
Her mate is gone midst flame and wind, that she did not share.
No more there will she nest again, for from the air she tumbled,
To sleep upon the blackened ash, with the silence of two hundred.

Tue, 2009-02-10 08:45 — Raymond J Warren (not verified)

bushfires

For We Are Aussies And We Care

Raymond J Warren

Brisbane Qld

February 9th 2009

Did you see that fireball a'rolling, down the valley fair,

And the timber smoke a’rising, from the beauty that was there?

Did you hear the birds a calling, in fear as they flew,

And house dogs barking loudly, at the fright that they felt too?

Did you hear the wind a’roaring, like a jet plane overhead,

Did you see the roadway littered with the dying and the dead?

Did you hear the crackling bushland, see the volunteers fight,

Did you see the orange horizon in the darkness of the night?

Can you hear the men a’yelling, as the run this way and that,

Can you hear the horses screaming as they gallop on the flat?

And can you hear the child calling as she stands now safe alone,

“Where’s my daddy have you seen him, I want my daddy home!”

Do you know that sinking feeling of the loss and loneliness,

As you stand before your once proud home and feel the emptiness.

Do you know the heartache, as you sift through ashes bare?

Does a tear come to your reddened eyes, for the memories stolen there?

Now please don’t worry strongly, there is something you should know,

We can’t bring back your loved ones, or the tokens for to show.

But we can share your pain, for our shoulders we lay bare.

So lay your head upon our breast, we are Aussies and we care.

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