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If you don’t want your children to read a book, don’t borrow it from the library.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears,. The point is, don’t take books out of the library that you are uncomfortable with or do not want your children to read. Just stop bullying the rest of us with different beliefs to yourselves by dictating what we can and cannot choose to do.I’m appalled by the decision by six members of Cumberland Council to ban a book from the local library which features families with same-sex parents.

”, May 9). Australia, along with every other country, should be in the process of phasing out fossil fuels, including gas, if we are to avoid the worst of global heating, climate change, more frequent extreme weather events, and huge financial costs.Natural gas is a relatively clean fossil fuel, and while we are still developing renewable energy sources, it should be extracted and used. There’s no point leaving it in the ground if there is a genuine domestic need and demand for it.

Look, face it – this is our only practical solution, just so long as fracking is banned. Don’t make a bad situation any worse. Now, one question for our PM: What will you do with Chris “Wind or Nothing” Bowen? Hogtied and gagged in some dingy Canberra basement, perhaps?My promise: Labor, you’ve lost my vote. I will no longer vote for the lesser of two evils, we need meaningful action on climate change now.

”, May 9). The decision to run “rapid buses” that only come every half hour and take more than an hour from Campbelltown to Western Sydney Airport is a missed opportunity to enact a near shovel-ready project to extend the South West Rail Link from Leppington. Campbelltown to Western Sydney Airport via Glenfield interchange on Sydney Trains would be possible in about 50 minutes with trains running more often than every half hour.

A community meeting was addressed by a department demographer, whose projected figures for the years ahead argued diminishing enrolments. One only had to step outside and witness the newly constructed high-rise apartments and the cranes looming over the Chatswood skyline to view this with considerable scepticism. The community won the battle and proud new buildings have recently been built. It is difficult to imagine the situation we would now be facing if the initial plans had proceeded.

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