Bigger fines for illegally using disability parking spaces should be considered
I would like to add my support to Sara McQueenie and Jon Parker and their comments (“Wheelchair uses say abuse of disability parking spaces frequent”, Bendigo Advertiser, November 27) about the problems relating to disability parking.
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Having access to disability parking is an essential service to allow us to be included and to participate in life.
I am also aware that other shires and councils have experienced similar difficulties with some people disregarding disability parking places.
One example I would like to share with readers is the town of Vincent in Western Australia.
They faced similar problems and changed the fines from $80 for illegal parking to $1000.
The problem of illegal parking changed just about instantly.
Perhaps the City of Bendigo could give some thought to this suggestion.
Lorraine le Plastrier, Chairperson Mount Alexander Shire Disability Advocacy Group
Dams, water storage can help save rural Australia
Jiri Kolenaty (“We need more and bigger water reservoirs”, Bendigo Advertiser, Your Say, November 24) is right to point out that Australia is desperately in need of new water storages.
We are blessed with a warm climate with a 12 month growing season. All that is needed is an adequate water supply for us to become the food-bowl of the Asia-Pacific region.
We do not lack adequate rainfall, we currently lack the ability to store enough of what falls in the tropics and right down the east coast as well as the wetter areas of Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.
Labour DLP’s policy of building new dams enabling massive irrigation projects would create tens of thousands of much needed jobs in rural Australia.
Like our power supply, we have not increased our water supply to keep up with ever-increasing demand. Since 1984 only one dam, Wyaralong in southeast Queensland, has been built to supply the capital cities.
At present, up to 70 percent of our water stored is sent out to sea despite no scientific backing that “environmental flows” are benefitting the environment.
Indeed, hypoxic black-water events resulting from continual inundation of flood plains where the stagnant water becomes hot, is causing harm to aquatic systems.
We need more water storages and to return viable water allocations to farmers to kick-start rural and regional economies again.
Chris McCormack, Sedgwick
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