Re: Landowners’ outcry as rates soar to $8000 (Weekly, August 29):
What an absolute disgrace this council is. Who can afford to pay $8000 in rates? All the council is interested in is squeezing more money from working class people and not providing adequate services to the ratepayers who pay their salaries.
Tony A (via web)
Re: Door closes on public housing (Weekly, August 29):
Getting rid of public housing in the midst of a severe housing crisis is outrageous. Social housing is not the same as public housing. When public housing is sold or given away (transferred) to the social housing sector, we often lose 75 per cent of what was once public housing and which is immediately converted into private units. The remaining one quarter becomes ‘social housing’ units. The social housing sector cherry picks tenants from the waiting list preferring working tenants over those solely on government benefits.
Fiona Ross (via web)
Re: Infrastructure gap fact of life, says MP (Weekly, August 22):
End our runaway population growth – this is the solution. We can only expect second-rate infrastructure and living standards as a result. The bipartisan agreement that “growth is good” is destroying Victoria. The “skills shortage” justification is wearing a little thin, especially considering the deep cuts to TAFE. Nimby (via web)
The shortfall of infrastructure is anything but inevitable. Julia Gillard dismissed our concerns about “big Australia” but still our federal government keeps increasing our immigration rates. McCrindle Research reveals that two-thirds of our population growth is from immigration, and we have the highest population growth of the developed nations.
Viv Kay (via web)
I can’t believe Philip Davis said that. Only Toorak deserves advanced levels of infrastructure because they can afford it, where as us commoners in Point Cook can’t even get the most basic of infrastructure, and according to Phil, don’t deserve it. Truly the most ridiculous comment an MP could make.
Andrew C (via web)
Re: Extra trains, but the crowding continues (Weekly, August 29):
A stable population would relieve our overstretched infrastructure.
Australia’s sustainable choice (via web)
I don’t like being trapped in a train where I am unable to move and this is standing up. Peak-hour services are a joke on the Werribee line and I feel sorry for anyone that is boarding from Laverton as half the time you are lucky if you are even able to get into the train.
Liz (via web)
