Recylit sorts and sells the paper, metal, plastic and glass you put in your weekly collection bin or take to the facility.

Most of its employees have a disability.

For them a job at Recyclit provides employment, community interaction, the confidence and the well-being that come from being a team member,

Since operation of ‘return and earn’, Recylit’s throughput has been down.

Every item cashed into the ‘return and earn’ bin is one less for Recyclit.

Which is more important, support for Gunnedah industry and the vulnerable in our community or making a big noise in Woolworths’ carpark to get a few dollars?

Deb Stoneman

Gunnedah

Next March the voters of the Tamworth electorate have to make a decision.

It will be a tight decision as to who forms government as metropolitan seats usually decided who forms the next state government. But we as voters in rural NSW have 30 percent of the electoral vote and as such the decisions of who wins the State Electorate of Tamworth will decide how the funding that comes in for critical infrastructure, health, education and those decisions impact private investment which encourage decentralisation and jobs growth in the regions. 

The NSW Coalition government has been economically sound and the recent sale of the Snowy Hydro assets with 100 percent of the returns going to rural NSW are evident of this.

In contrast, the 16 years of Labor from 1995-2011 were a disaster and I am sure that voters do not need to be reminded of this.

But there are still things this Nationals-aligned policy voter wants to see happened in the next year before the election.

A fair-dinkum decentralisation policy in regards to flight slots and competitive pricing to and from areas such as Tamworth to Sydney. If that means increasing slots in out of Sydney to and from rural centers to encourage tourism and decentralisation of government services and enterprise than that would be a healthy start.

More investment pre-employment TAFE courses in trades and vocational education targeted for school leavers which will deal with a raft of Youth Unemployment issues.

Dealing with legislation a balance of agricultural production and mining when dealing with sensitive underground water systems. Both industries have their place in rural economies but the balance has to be spot on so that areas such as the Liverpool Plains continue to be a strong food bowl.

Continued investment in road and branch line rail infrastructure to get our goods to port more efficiently and give agribusiness choices in the marketplace on how they transport those goods.

A incentive based policy that keeps our nurses and doctors staying in rural NSW rather than relocating to the city. 

Independents and other candidates from other parties will no doubt run their race, have their policies and in a democracy that's fine, but ultimately economic conservative voters like myself think that It's best practice that while not endorsing.

You have to ask yourself who represents the electorate of Tamworth and the interests of the 30 percent of the people who live in rural NSW. 

Shane Moran

Tamworth

What’s this about cheating ? I thought cricket was a gentleman’s game. This is not real good, how could they.

Francis Mion

Tamworth