Your Say: New pool regulations prove expensive

Our pool has existing glass panels and aluminum protector flat top pool fence panels with a gate lock. Another fence needs to be constructed at the bottom of the garden to separate it from the boundary fence.

Expensive trees also need to be culled in case someone climbs them to reach the pool. We have gone to considerable expense to make our pool childproof, but are at a loss to understand why we have to make our garden 'childproof' when nobody should be entering our property - i.e. climbing over the fence to get to the pool.

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We are now faced with enormous costs - one quote of $4000 just to erect the fencing around the spa and back of pool without even knowing what the cost is going to be to replace the colourbond boundary fencing because the existing panels are illegal under the new guidelines. I am extremely disappointed there is no leeway for exemptions or modifications, but I doubt I will receive any sympathy for my dilemma.

Ken Price, in his letter to the Addy, asks the Prime Minister to make a very simple statement and declare Christian Porter innocent if he believes he is. The sad part is Porter has not been investigated nor charged with any crime. It is not up to any PM to declare anyone innocent.

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He is right to say we have seen a damning indictment on our political system and how it treats people. The systematic bullying of a female MP on sick leave is disgusting, especially bullying from female MPs - the very people who demand and end Canberra's toxic culture of harassment. The example they have set is not the one anti-bullying campaigners want our politicians to send our impressionable young people. But I guess some are prepared to sacrifice their principles for a political scalp.

I wish to respond to Ian Grist's letter (March 9) where he takes me to task about aspects of hotel quarantine. Ian claims some deaths related to COVID can be traced to nursing homes. He and I are in furious agreement on this point. But he fails to ask the question: where did the virus emanate from that caused the deaths?

It was brought to our shores by overseas carriers. How did it manage to escape into the community? In Victoria we initially had a hopeless quarantine and tracing system, so the virus rapidly spread unlike in NSW.

Massive failures in the Victorian hotel quarantine system were highlighted in the findings of the Coate inquiry.

Ian completely ignored the crux of my letter which highlighted the hypocritical double standards of the Andrews government. By his silence, I assume we are in agreement?

An "inquiry" into 801 deaths where accountability and responsibility were avoided - something a royal commission would not have tolerated. But the state government is perfectly happy to invoke a royal commission into Crown Casino knowing the forensic spotlight is not on it.

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