loss of credibility

Meg O'Neill has just destroyed her credibility. She has made a demand which, deliberately or not, places her firmly in the my-way or the highway camp.

She calls for "truth on climate" 

Blak people call for "truth-telling". By which they mean, ignore all documented history, you must accept what I tell you that I vaguely remember of what my now dead granny told us kids when we were young enough to listen to fairy stories.

Take my word as truth and everyone else is telling lies.

O'Neill -- boss of major resource exploitation company Woodside -- wants us to ignore other views and accept her word as the one and only "truth".

She mentions "science". But with one word, truth, she has linked mining companies with people who demand that we accept facts only as far as the facts support a one-sided view of history.

Take my truth. All else is lies.

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sick old story

Gary Martin writes 20 May of our tendency to scour the internet and find a plethora of deadly diseases that match our trivial symptoms.

he calls it cyberchondria

Nothing new there.

Way back in 1889, Jerome K Jerome wrote Three Men in a Boat.One of the characters spent time in a doctor's waiting room -- reading a book of diseases and symptoms. Within an hour he had realised that, despite feeling quite healthy, he in fact had a plethora of deadly diseases.

In these modern times we still suffer -- but faster, thanks to the internet.

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royal rubbish

The story of the Harry and Meghan Nigerian pseudo-royal back-scratch fest has surely been inspired by the Edgar Wallace stories of Sanders of the River. Back in 1911 it was an exciting adventure in the British Raj. Now it is an embarrassing story of Internet influencers in search of clicks.

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tornado terror

Sometimes the weather bureau is so annoying.

it's clear that your headline writer has HORROR on speed dial.

We open each day's paper with eager anticipation. How soon will horror apear?

And then Bunbury has a tornado. front page May 11th

If only the Bureau had called it a hurricane.

But in WA, that hardly ever happens

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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women in charge

Bloody women. Put them in charge of a footy team and they destroy everything that makes the game worth playing.

All Tarryn Thomas has done is, and its only allegedly, multiple domestic violence related incidents. Oh and lots of misconduct including threatening a woman. So what. He's turned up at four different programs to change his behaviour.Is he now expected to change his behaviour, or what. The Club bosses, both bloody women of course, write to other footy teams to say that the poor boy did not change. Well, why should he.

We must have men, real men, running our footy.

Real men would forgive. Support. Perhaps send him to a more expensive program overseas. Let the court cases settle. Then get him a job as footy commentator.

Bloody wishy washy women.

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flawed purpose

In a Sunday Times article on A flawed system, May 5th,

"Parents ask for things like mental health plans and they're just overlooked."
When did Child Welfare change to Services for Failed Parents?

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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neighbourhood and NDIS nonsense

A couple of items in today's Sunday times.

In one, a couple set up an NDIS-funded business to provide accommodation for people who can't look after themselves.

Pretty soon, unmanaged people are disturbing neighbors, with noise, lights and all hours comings and goings. They also wander the streets and knock on doors at all hours.

The business applies to the Council to have the house changed from residential to supported independent living. The change is rejected.

Good.

It's a residential neighbourhood and the business is already, illegally, damaging liveability.

btw: I strongly object to people who create a business with the primary, possibly only, goal of catching NDIS funding. NDIS is to support the disabled. Not to support greedy entrepreneurs.

Next, a "WA disability services provider" wants landlords to give *priority* to "vulnerable" potential tenants. Give rental priority to people who already get government funding through NDIS.

What the hell. Let ordinary people, with no particular problems, become second class citizens who are forced to sleep on the streets.

Support, okay. Priority, definitely not.

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scoring to win

The Editorial headline, May 3, claims, Political point-scoring doesn't help anyone.

It's clear that the Editor does not understand politics.

Points scored help the politician to gain publicity, which in turn gains votes. Which is all that matters to a politician.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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Basil bends over

The Zempilas ten points in The West are getting to be more political. No surprise now that Basil has officially entered politics.

Today May 3 he also gives a huge arse-kiss to the West's Editors, ex and incoming.

No surprise there, either, Basil is owned by the paper.

It is a clear warning of who will be giving orders to Basil if he gets into Parliament.

Still no mention in the Channel Seven owned paper of the false murder accusations by Ch7. Nor of the confidential settlement that Seven was forced to make with the innocent man.

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protest for peace

Students are violently protesting, for and against Israel and Palestine.

It's not clear what they actually want. Let's pretend that they want peace.

So:

Build a fence around all of the protesters. Leave them alone to settle their differences. Let the protesters out only when they have a student-peace agreement individually signed by every protester.

Then send that agreement to both Israel and Palestine, as an example of what can be achieved.

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spread it on

A Letter today, May 3 surprised me. From earlier Letters I always assumed that Rhys Winterburn was already ripe and old. (sorry Rhys, j/k)

I was more inspired by Today's Text. Jesus declared, I am the bread of life.

I'll take that bread well toasted. With lots of butter, some bacon and a fried egg, if there is also a plate and a serviette. Plus, the ultimate taste for enjoyment, a sharp slathering of marmalade. A short life but tastier.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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what can we do

On 1st May The West attacks federal ministers for allowing foreign criminals to freely cut a violent path through our society.

What do you expect the ministers to do?

There are people, presumably Australians, who dedicate themselves to removing any restriction on criminal invaders.

These people find a weakness in our aging Constitution: known criminals now cannot be detained. We can't send them home, the criminals just say no.

Supporters of crime demand the right to visit new arrivals, to guide them through the process of gaining maximum benefit from their unannounced arrival in our country.

They demand that the Australian government provides comfort and security and the latest technology to people who are already rich enough to have bought their own way through people smugglers to this land of golden criminal opportunity.

Any government action to control these criminals will be fought tooth and nail by the people who get a warm and comforting glow from each and every crime committed by their foreign proteges.

All that we are allowed to do is to hide behind locked doors and hope that it is not our home that is the target for the next violent home invasion by a foreign criminal.

... Nick Lethbridge, Churchlands

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