Re Truck battle: Footscray, Yarraville locals raise mighty racket against rat runners (Weekly, November 14)
Nice work, just one problem, that area has been an industrial area for 20 years and trucks have been using it for the same period of time. How long ago did you and everyone else in your group move in? Oh, that’s right, it doesn’t matter, you’re there now and everyone else should bow down to your demands because you moved into what is now a semi-industrial area because of cheaper house prices and now you want everything changed.
Bridgeport13b
I want trucks off the road, I want a new school, I want, I want, I want. I am sick of it. If you don’t like it, leave. Simple!
Antiquelady
God, some people are pathetic! Don’t like it, move out. The trucks have been on that road before you were there. People forget how important trucks are. Go pick on woman bashers and people who rape instead of trucks.
Just-the-same-girl-you-knew
Without trucks Australia would stop. I have lived in Yarraville for 28 years and my dad is a truckie, he has been for 35 years. I am over hearing about these new people moving into Yarraville and then complaining about the trucks, You want clean air and no noise, move to the bloody country.
sala45
The problem with excessive truck numbers started about 15 years ago when the container yards moved out of what is now Docklands and went further west, creating huge numbers of truck movements from those areas to the port through suburban streets. I’ve been here for 13 years and I have seen truck numbers keep increasing . . . it’s crazy! I’ll be at the protest, I’m sick of it.
Phjk 1
Re Autism link ‘breakthrough’ for rare disorder (Weekly, November 14)
The link between ACC (agenesis of the corpus callosum) and autism is something I have wondered about for many years as I have watched my daughter struggle. Because she also has no pituitary gland, and that is life threatening, that was the focus for many years and I didn’t realise that a lot of her struggles were nothing to do with that. Neither did the doctors.
What’s happening now is that people who have been diagnosed with autism at some stage are having MRIs and some are missing part or all of their corpus callosum. It’s a very distinct link. Corpus callosal disorders in babies are being discovered because brain scanning technology has improved so much in the past 20 years.
Mareekin
Re Church victims urged to seek help (Weekly, November 14)
I had the honour of standing with Mairead Ashcroft during her “Impact Walk” this year. It was a profound experience and the first time I had stood publicly to acknowledge my situation. Since then a new freedom has come into my life and I know, for those willing and able to stand with us, that this royal commission into child abuse might just do the same for them. All I can offer any victims is this: please know now that you’re not the one with the problem. You’re the unfortunate recipient of the terrible consequences of someone else’s problem.
Blue
