Honest opinion

Congratulations to The West on two counts for the article, "Budget gender balance fix" (23/6). First, for the pretence that the paper influenced a government decision. Second, for the tacit admission that the regular "opinion" pieces are direct reflections of the opinion of the newspaper, not the writer.

 

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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"Take a lesson from the weather… it pays no attention to what the critics say." … per Ginger Meggs

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dinosaur sculpture

Hello Ben,

I like the look of the dinosaur sculpture proposed by Ben Juniper. It looks good and it's exactly the "big thing" which Perth "big people" say that we want:

It's big, it's expensive and it's eye-catching.

Of course the closest it comes to "West Australian" is that  it is steel. Oh, I suppose you could somehow link it to dinosaur footprints in Broome.

Even worse: it was first offered to Tasmania. The artist failed to sell it there so, on the rebound, he's trying to sell it to WA. May as well build a giant steel elephant, for all the relevance to WA. If it is painted white, even better.

Why not be *proud* of WA. Draw tourists to see the amazing state that we already have. Did you see the ad that wants tourists to "climb the four biggest mountains in WA, all in one shire"? Use what we have, what is already unique -- and beautiful.

Or are you too embarrassed to admit that WA is already unique. With no need to compete with big and ugly models in other parts of the world.

... Nick

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
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flying low

Qantas are no longer flying overseas. Customers who have already paid for overseas flights are offered a credit -- credit for a service which is no longer being offered.

Don't worry. Your money is being used to pay the multi-millionaires who run this non-flying airline. You know, the ones who will never be made redundant.

Qantas, the un-Australian airline.

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper

...        Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved

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"No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway." … per Ginger Meggs
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Bring it on!

Apparently we have had thirty years of economic growth.

This has lead to interest rates so low that it is not worth leaving money in the bank. Traffic congestion as we all rush to earn another dollar.  A building industry which demands government support when noone really wants to build.

We encourage population growth to support industries which serve no purpose other than making a few rich people even richer. While the population continues to grow we will never be able to solve the problems of a growing population.

If we stop population growth today it will still take generations of effort to solve tbe problems of the people we already have.

Isn't it strange that the working masses are told to retrain to suit requirements of a changing business -- yet those same businesses are unable to change themselves : builders, for example, can only build. When there is less need for new building -- why are building companies unable to change to a more necessary activity?

After thirty years of economic growth we have a concrete jungle swallowing all available green and open space. We have neighbourhoods being destroyed to allow a select few people to get richer by squeezing more concrete into smaller area.

On days when there is no smoke from controlled burns, we can look out over the filth of permanent pollution.

Thanks to thirty years of economic growth the majority of people are priced out of the housing market. A low interest rate is no comfort to a young family who can never afford either deposit or repayments.

After thirty years of economic growth -- I am looking forward to the promised recession. Less economic growth? Less growing pains? Time to take a breath? Bring it on!

Nick Lethbridge    /    Consulting Dexitroboper
Agamedes Consulting    /   Problems? Solved.
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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." … William Bruce Cameron, 1963
   

Kings Park chairlift

Driving south from the city at night, I could see the State War Memorial. It is a bright, floodlit beacon. The surrounding darkness of Anzac Bluff provides a somber and somehow moving setting.

I wonder how the Memorial will look with enormous, floodlit pylons of a chairlift scrabbling up the otherwise pristine slope.

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later: This letter was published -- unchanged -- in the daily paper. Such glory :-)

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"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." … William Bruce Cameron, 1963