Age readers respond to the housing crisis versus protecting green spaces, and the magpie season.
. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.I found it both amazing and deeply troubling that so few of the candidates for local government election thought housing was important and that so many couldn’t say whether or not it was important.
If the council is serious about getting more people into town, by all means clean things up, but also change the weekend parking back to free. Or is the clean-up money going to be raised by the parking fines people are sure to incur?The public is very sensitive and understandably threatened about youth crime. As columnist John Silvester writes, though, a different, more complex treatment yields much better results rejecting them” and they are seeking a sense of belonging.
I was never swooped and they kept me company during days when I was working from home. It was nice to sit outside with my morning tea and watch them potter around the front garden.I was hit about five times last year in Kilsyth by a magpie. I turned around and found the culprit on the wires high above the street. I stopped for a couple of minutes, looking at him and talking to him. I was not attacked any more that year. Maybe I was lucky but magpies are an intelligent bird.
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