Roadblocks in council
We know the necessity to upgrade the Princes Highway, however it’s interesting to note that the Milton Ulladulla Business Chamber mentioned it’s not only to save lives but improve industry in the region. Since we founded Milton Hardware & Mowers 29 years ago we have tried to improve industry with a more user friendly environment for both our customers and staff.
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We have had conflicts with Shoalhaven City Council since we began. One council officer said there was no need for our type of business in the area. That was approximately 27 years ago.
We employ just over 30 local employees, so council isn’t always right.
To add to our frustration, we lodged a development application with council approximately 12 months ago to expand by building a new workshop for steel fabrication and use the present workshop for unloading trucks, allowing a drive-through situation for both deliveries and tradesmen which would free up the customer parking area.
Our company suspects those in high positions in council are not in favour of private enterprise employing anyone.
We realise the main topic in the paper was for safer roads. We could take a look at our internal roads such as Bawley Point Road, Bendalong Road and Croobyar Road.
Council spends enormous amounts of ratepayers’ moneyrepairing these roads only to find the road condition to be worse within 12 months. Maybe it needs to be introduced to the hot mix method instead of little rough patches everywhere.
We welcome the Milton Ulladulla Business Chamber support in endeavouring to improve industry. As we stand, we are going around in a vicious circle with council and getting nowhere.
Jim McConnell, Ulladulla
Ann should engage
I imagine Saturday’s by-election results have left our federal Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis quaking in her boots. Particularly in Longman, Queensland, there was a massive swing against the government.
If this trend is repeated at the next federal election Mrs Sudmalis will be gone.
It appears she will either be rolled by local estate agent Grant Schultz in preselection, or be removed at election time.
Mrs Sudmalis deserves to lose her seat for many reasons.
Perhaps more than any other is her unwillingness to genuinely engage with her community here in Gilmore.
It’s not good enough to set up a small table outside Milton IGA from time to time and make small talk with random passers-by.
Many letters have been published in the Times asking specific questions of Mrs Sudmalis about important issues such as youth unemployment, CSG drilling, refugee policy and the highway upgrade.
She has ignored these letters. Letters to her office have also been ignored.
Ann, should you lose your job as I predict then all is not lost. Perhaps you can gain employment somewhere on the weekends in hospitality. Then you would experience firsthand the reduced penalty rates which your government introduced and which you supported so strongly.
In this way you may begin to gain some empathy for those employed in our area, and realise that after all, the cuts are not “a gift to the young”.
G. Miller, Little Forest
Show some courage
I appreciate the challenges faced by primary producers.
However, I cannot stand by passively and condone live animal export. Ms Ann Sudmalis MP has not yet indicated which way she intends to vote in the upcoming bill.
One can only hope she has the courage to cross the floor to end this barbaric and un-Australian practice once and for all.
Such action would surely be supported by the majority of constituents.