The numbers game
Helen sits at No 1
(that doesn't mean she's smarter);
Labor's Mitch, at No 2,
gives us another starter.
James, campaigning for the Libs,
appears at the 3rd station;
next, at 4, comes Athol who
is standing for One Nation.
Then, The Greens' Alysia
allocated No 5,
while Tim, at 6, is working
to keep liberty alive.
Michael, who's for Family First,
comes in at No 7;
Ben, allotted No 8,
has aims as high as heaven.
Finally, at No 9,
is Mark for your selection:
who'll be getting your first vote
this 3rd of May election?
Craig Penny, Terip Terip
Scorched earth
What is this? Trees in Elliot Street have been demolished for a John Holland crib.
The Inland Rail Plan suggested they would try to save one.
Some twigs have survived the chainsaws, grader, and compactor.
The ground is so compacted that you would probably struggle to grow rocks when they pull up their caravan and move on.
Reminds me of Mt Isa mine sites in the 1970s.
Professor Kate Auty, Euroa
Not again
As I prepared to feed the dogs in the late afternoon of ANZAC Day, the lights went off, again.
Faced with a dinner of cereal and milk, I made a mad dash to the Shell service centre because it would have a gigantic industrial generator to keep the food outlets cooking and the pumps pumping, but no, they had no power either.
The "Outages" website was no help in identifying the cause of the outage.
Would it be the whiz bang thingy that was installed after the bushfire royal commission (which seems to cut in when someone lights a cigarette) or not?
Who knows? We are never told.
Again, would larger towns and cities have to put up with this? I think not.
Lynda Griffiths, Balmattum
