Recycling in Gunnedah
Woolworths shoppers may have observed that the new container recycling facility in the car park is attracting a great deal of patronage. This is hardly surprising to anyone who has recently purchased a carton of beer or a case of soft drink. The price has dramatically increased in recent times because the NSW Government has imposed a levy.
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In Gunnedah we have enjoyed an extremely efficient weekly recycling service for some years. I am sure that most ratepayers appreciate and are happy to support this operation. It also provides a wonderful employment facility for our local disability services. In my view this has been a win/win for Gunnedah.
The new system introduced by the NSW Government penalises communities that have taken steps to recycle their waste. Gunnedah consumers are given the option of cashing in their containers (by my calculations still at an overall loss) or using the current weekly recycling service, and thereby making a donation to the NSW Government.
It is a diabolical example of taxation by stealth and disability services are once again the victims. It is lose/lose for Gunnedah.
Brian Jeffrey, Gunnedah
Family values changing
In 1994, I realised that the moral value of the world had changed. Family as the foundation of society no longer seemed to matter and I didn't know why.
I recall sitting on the front steps of my elderly neighbours home. Mrs Margaret Klose was able to give me the answers in articles published by the Lutheran Church, and the Reverend Fred Nile.
The articles on humanism and 1976 Law reforms were the beginning of my research. I found Rueban Staff's book "The Key of Three" summed up many of the problems.
It contains wonderful words of wisdom that reveal some reasons why parents' rights have been eroded.
Extracts from one such article, 'Reality Today', tell of the grim forces working with restless zeal to kill morals of our young.
Where faith in God does not exist, moral fibre we must destroy. Tis Marx and Lenin's cunning play; Our family life, our cherished home, the very heart of human strength, is undermined with doctrines false. Till marriage vows just count for naught, and brokenhomes are common place.
But...revolution cannot be, where family life is strong and free. Each generation has their turn; to build, to plan, to sow their seed. To leave behind what fruits they will, for good or bad...it is their choice."
In 1994 at a church service, Pastor Roger Armstrong of the Christian Outreach Church said: "The walls of the city have come down, and the enemy comes and goes as it desires."
I feel that each and every one of us has a duty as Australians under one banner to become committed to restoring society's values.
23 years later, the wheel has turned full circle. Christmas Eve 2017, the hidden agenda was revealed on Beyond Today, which gives all the answers about the humanist manifesto and the hidden agenda.
Beyond Today telephone is 1300 833 017 to order. Or you can write to P.O. Box 535 Brisbane QLD 4001.
Judith Law, Gunnedah
Family photos found
Here is an appeal to the good citizens of Tamworth. An SD card for a camera/phone has been found in Queens Park Toowoomba during the last few nights of the Christmas Wonderland display, probably lost on night of 23 or 24 December. It contains photos of a family with two young daughters, who received certificates from Tamworth State school. A new house on a larger block and also holiday snaps along the northern NSW coast. Would like to reunite it to the correct people. Thanks in anticipation of identifying the subjects.
Ian Scarborough, Lions Club of Toowoomba West
