I don’t look forward to pushing three bins up my relatively long, uphill slope.

What about the kitchen caddies and liners? I have managed for 50 years without a kitchen caddy and I have seen too many smelly bins. 

There are many people in Bendigo doing it hard. Many homeless people.

So many kids going hungry and missing out all too often.

If we left out the kitchen caddies and liners we could spend that money on those who need help.

Think of the kids and the homeless, they are far more important. Time to get our priorities right.

I think I can help Ruth Webb ( Letters 20/6 ) understand why the GLBTI community doesn't condemn a whole religion based on the actions of a conflicted and disturbed maniac.

The most hateful comments supporting the massacre in Orlando come not from mosques but the pulpits of fundamentalist Christian churches in America.

As a gay man, I do not fear Muslims in Australia but I am fearful that this tragedy is being used to encourage anti-immigration and Islamophobic sentiments in our community as a whole.

GLBTI people know only too well how hatred, discimination and bigotry works to undermine our ability to be equal citizens under the law.

As a result, we refuse to be drawn into a divisive way of seeing the world. The real enemies of gay people are those that seek to vilify and oppress minorities in favour of a homogenised and monocultural society.

I wish Raywood could a least get a tower built – was ok'd to be built a few years ago, let alone get NBN, maybe then we could actually use the phones and Internet within the township and on the way to Bendigo without failure, but worse with summer and fires, etc.

The premier claims the UFU will have no veto over the operations of the CFA, has the Premier read the clauses in the EBA or have we just read the wrong EBA?

If the union has no veto why does a clause stipulate that no CFA volunteers may ride in the same truck as paid firefighters unless the UFU gives the ok?

Why does every purchase in every station from torches to truck tyres have to be sanctioned by the UFU?

Why can no outside firefighter or other employee be employed by the CFA unless they have completed a union approved course? Premier you may well believe your own spin and Peter Marshalls propaganda, but I have to inform you their are others in this state, who can read, write and understand the written word.