Festival drug overdoses: how stupid are young people?
Four overdoses of drugs at the rainbow Serpent music festival.
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Just goes to show how stupid some of our young people have become.
Peter Lesuey, Kennington
Where is Daniel Andrews?
Where is the Premier of Victoria? Hiding, now doubt, now that he has turned Victoria (formerly a great manufacturing state and capable of keeping the power on at all times) into a third world state.
Daniel Andrews should answer to the people of Victoria and to industrial leaders for the crisis he has caused. He caused Engie to close prematurely and without replacement, by increasing the royalties 300 per cent thereby forcing them out. This was over 25 per cent of our baseload gone in one hit.
Load shedding, blackouts, and the most expensive power in the country is hardly a good result for a once very productive state. It is criminal!
It must be deliberate: could any government be so stupid? Well, yes. Listening to Minister Lily D'Ambrosio this week, I can see how it could be stupidity and not deliberate sabotage of our state.
But it’s going to get worse as more unreliable renewables, such as solar and wind, are planned to “take over” from coal and gas. Oh, and it's going to cost a whole lot more too.
But where is Daniel Andrews?
Helen Leach, Bendigo
Government failings
It seems a bit rich for PM Morrison to come out in The Age headlines (29 Jan 2019) with a warning that a recession on the way under Labor.
This from a government that has no policies on global warming, unemployment, age care.
The ABC News on this same day has reported on the first meeting of the Conversation Economic Survey , a team of 19 academic economists from 12 universities across six states, claiming that the Australian Economy will remain healthy enough for this Liberal Government to claim it as a strength in the lead-up to the May election.
The survey points to a fairly flat outlook and beyond that, a possible 25 per cent chance of a recession in the next two years.
Read more: PM promises to cut debt, create 1.25m jobs
With no recovery in the share market in 2019, no recovery in wage growth, no further improvement in the unemployment rate, further modest home price falls in Sydney and Melbourne, and a deficit next financial year despite the official line of a surplus and Treasurer Josh Frydenburg's committment that the government will fight the election continuing to forecas a surplus.
PM Morrison knows full well what is coming and is blaming Labor for the future.
He knows also that his government is not going to survive the next election, giving him ammunition in opposition to attack Labor for his govenments failings.
Bill Collier, Golden Square
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