RACE TO CITY (Weekly, April 9)
■ Congratulations to all involved in the Race to the City, especially Wyndham council for making it happen.
As for the lame comments from some in State Parliament, trying to discount the impact and results of the event, you disgust me!
Stop toeing the party line and stand up for the needs of Wyndham.
We are sick of being treated as second-class citizens because we are not a marginal seat.
MICHAEL YOUNG VIA WEB
■ The rate of population increase is being increased by all the house approvals.
There’s no balance with jobs, infrastructure, costs of living, or the state deficit. There needs to be a cost-benefit analysis of the whole housing industry.
The benefits go to property developers, but the costs are distributed onto the community. ‘‘Planning’’ has become an oxymoron, and standards can only decline to the detriment of the profession.
It’s all about destruction of planning principles and open slather housing construction.
MATILDA BANDIC VIA WEB
■ Incredibly, a planning expert is admitting that our population is growing too fast.
Our immigration-driven population growth is being deliberately set at full-throttle rates for the housing industry, due to the decline of mining and resources.
However, it’s foolish to think that housing and property can replace these exportable commodities.
It’s said that each person costs $200,000 in infrastructure, but this doesn’t become evident initially.
The cost of loss of amenities, environmental assets and quality of life can’t be measured.
We are facing climate change, a new era of scarcities and threats to food production. Surely, it’s obvious that while we benefited from growth and high rates of immigration in the past, these times are over. We need to optimise the infrastructure we have, and improve our quality of lives, not depend on housing for revenues.
TONY B VIA WEB
STOLEN DOGS THROWN FROM VEHICLE (Weekly, April 9)
■ These “people” are the real animals! Find them, follow them to the fights and lock them all away in a cage for a very long time.
MICHAEL VIA WEB
