remember when you and a mate used to play secret agents using two tin cans attached by string as a walky-talky?

Remember when the string broke and your mate had to stop you shouting to conserve your hiding place?

Electricity is basically distributed in the same way as sound waves along string, except it requires wire. It doesn’t really matter how the electricity is generated. When the wire breaks, the lights go out.

Pay attention young Barnaby because this is where things get tricky. Climatologists have found that global warming is causing an increase in extreme weather events, such as the storm that broke the wires in South Australia. It is logical that more fossil-fuel powered generating stations will inevitably cause more wire breaks. Simplistic but true.

This fact clashes with your well-known dislike of wind turbines. In the short term, here’s a politically expedient suggestion: perhaps you can persuade your NSW mates to put all those unemployed greyhounds onto treadmills.

Richard Tilzey

Tilba

Could Ms Cruttenden, as well as SAFE, the Animal Justice Party (AJP) and Community Voice Eurobodalla (CVE), please provide a list of who can hire a public hall and what events they will allow to take place? 

It would seem the whole community needs the permission of both you and the groups you represent before it can do anything in a public hall. Your statements are wrong. HuntFest was not only a Greens issue at the recent council election; every candidate from the CVE told anyone who would listen that, if elected, they would stop HuntFest. 

Withdrawing the licence now could cost the rate payers millions. Or will you and SAFE compensate the hunters club? As for the Environment Defenders Office, it is not a government body, but a bunch of Greenie lawyers. If they truly believed the council got the licence wrong, why did they not take legal action? Because they knew they would have lost. Susan, you have told us SAFE had 81 per cent of community support to stop HuntFest. However, the CVE, made up of SAFE and AJP members, only mustered 15.23 per cent of the vote. What happened to the large community support you told us about? Did they forget to vote? No! They voted for others, which tells us that most of the community supports HuntFest. Stop flogging a dead horse and bombarding us all with your constant moaning and whinging about HuntFest. Please give the community some peace!

Fred Simich

Narooma

It was interesting to see Mr Roy trying to get himself shot in Iraq.

He has failed to explain why he was there and we can only speculate on his motives. His former colleagues have labelled him irresponsible, stupid, etc. 

Given the Federal Government's expectation that fit young people should seek employment and the fact that there is a bumper fruit crop in Queensland, should we not expect that his energy would be better served if he demonstrated his patriotism by assisting with the mango harvest?

Trevor Taylor

Narooma

In response to Dan Field, president of the South Coast Hunters Club, and frequent writer to your publication: firstly, thank you for your written acknowledgement that the strong HuntFest backlash should have led to a doubling of Greens representation on the council.  

That it didn't, due to what I regard as a well-meant but naive approach by CVE, does not diminish that many more people are becoming progressive, rather than small-minded in their approach to local politics.  This wasn't a referendum on HuntFest. This election was not all about you or your fellow hunters and their strange fascination with killing beasts for recreation. It's also not about the strong anti-HuntFest feelings of locals (valid as they are). There are many more issues of concern to me as a councillor - and to voters - than this sideshow. Nevertheless, HuntFest is not an issue I am prepared to ignore or let go. I am concerned about the process of approval whereby this event squirmed it's way through the previous council, with incremental variations that increased its toxicity, in a manner that was neither transparent nor open to public scrutiny. 

Councillor Pat McGinlay

Contrary to Dan Field’s assertions (Narooma News, Sep 28), my pre-election research did not disclose any candidate as being pro-HuntFest.

Why? Perhaps it was because they didn’t want to commit political suicide.  I believe one councillor previously voted in favour of the event, believing it related to feral animal control. I too held this belief until I tried to submit photos of our feral pig management program. I found I had to be a hunter belonging to a hunting club. I couldn’t reveal to the public the volunteer work we do to protect our natural environment. No, we had to be hunters, finding pleasure in killing or sticking an animal head on our wall to show off to our friends. Now, we have an event in our shire that encourages weapon ownership and promotes safari/trophy hunting. Perhaps a shire-wide plebiscite on HuntFest would solve the controversy? It would certainly indicate whether our new council will actually respond to ratepayer views, rather than those of the national gun lobby.