Why defer decision on new museum site?
I read in disbelief in today's Bendigo Advertiser (“Cart before the horse, Councillors question the immediate need for a new Bendigo museum”, September 19), that councillors of the City of Greater Bendigo believe that a decision on establishing a museum in the old Bendigo law courts should be deferred until they have sorted out the storage needs for the museum's collections. While good storage is vital to a museum, the ability to secure the old courts as a museum is a once-only opportunity. If the council fails to act now, this opportunity could be lost forever. This is not a case of either storage or a museum, this is a case of acting on both before the opportunity is lost forever.
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James Proctor, Strathdale
Call for commonsense
I find it absolutely appalling, that the Bendigo Council are happy and willing to waste untold amounts of taxpayer money to upgrade the mall yet again, and now a museum could be a reality they want to waste even more money – $15,000 on a strategic report, $30,000 on an audit of artifacts, then further sums, for a feasability study into storage.
WHAT!!! How about some commonsense? Take the opportunity to spend all of those funds on renovating the old law courts to house our city's historical artifacts under one roof, in a fitting museum which is in an ideal position in the CBD. The council need to look to our future. Come on you lot of procrastinators, do something the people want. Remember, you work for the taxpayers!
Shirley Grant, Shelbourne
Read more: Museum needed to house Bendigo history
Political turmoil
Most Australian residents must be asking themselves “what the hell is going on in Australian politics”.
An American billionaire flies into Australia and declares that “Turnbull must go” and within a couple of weeks he is gone – and he cannot even vote in Oz.
This scenario is similar to the last American election, only more obvious. I don't recall Murdoch or Stokes on any ballot paper before the 2016 election. News Corporation journalists have denied that Murdoch instructed them what to write, in his own news papers. So who else would have instructed them?
The majority of Australians should be outraged, and at times have been labelled mug voters, but it is hard to argue that this is not the position we find ourselves in at present. We roll up to the ballot box, fill in our choices, put them in the correct receptacles, and out comes what Murdoch, Stokes, Jones, Hadley, Bolt, or any other powerful identity wants, who have more influence than any voter regarding Government direction.
By their actions these media moguls would give anything to take control of the ABC, shut it down, and then have the entire Australian media landscape to tell us how the world they have just bought should be run. Is this how a “fit and proper person” who has such control over multiple media outlets acts. One is entitled to ask, “how is freedom of the press working out now”, and is it “democracy to the highest bidder”. Will Rupert fly in just before the next election and tell us all how to vote? I will be surprised if he doesn't.
Ken Price, Eaglehawk
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