Congratulations on a fine crop of letters this week, makes me feel nostalgic. Everything from concise responsibilities of landlords in a place where ‘affordable housing’ is an oxymoron, through to the atrocities being perpetrated on Gaza.
From the noise levels of Splendour and wanting to protect koalas, to respect for this land’s original inhabitants. The need for local rail transport weighed against the climate change emergency.
From airing possible alternative energy sources, to an observation that we, as a community, like to have a bit of a bleat about unimportant aesthetics impinging on our environment.
What a wealth of talent and freedom of expression!
I have to state that I am embarrassed that a government, currently in charge of my country, is imprisoning babies, children and other human beings, in inhumane conditions, thus exacerbating their pre-existing traumatic disorders, all for a few votes.
The current federal government seems to be trying to deny their very existence.
It is a jolly good thing that the previous Labor government introduced the national Early Years Learning Framework, the first country-wide outline of institutionalized childcare for 0-6 year-olds.
I don’t think the current government is meeting even a small proportion of its guidelines in its ‘care’ of hundreds of young, traumatised children incarcerated in ‘detention centres’.
Oh, sorry, not precisely children, but ‘illegals’.
So, is the framework only applicable to those bred in Consumer Land?
Sarah Smith, Mullumbimby
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
