Re Cold store workers fight for fairer pay(Weekly, February 20):
We can discuss about the how, the WOW, but most importantly we need to address this NOW. Unity is strength, as workers, as a community, as a nation. If ‘fair work for fair pay’ is a value that you identify with, speak now or forever hold your peace. Solidarity from Queensland.
A Frandi
The disparity in pay is shocking . . . why is Coles discriminating its workers who are the building blocks of their company’s success?
Alison
Re. ‘Keep out’ zones to keep drunks, troublemakers off Footscray streets (Weekly, February 20):
What if I get a bit pi$$ed and I actually live within this area? Am I forced by the coppers to become homeless? Tony Cee
I live just on the outside edge of the map. So now they’re going to be pushed ‘out’ to our streets? Who are ‘they’ anyway? On the edge
About time! I live in that area and I don’t want to fear being bailed up by drunken junkies or drunken gangs of youths who loiter in the mall, the alleys or anywhere else there. Frank
Can we use it to keep the Regional Rail Link out of the area? That’d be nice.
Sir Stewart Wallace
Reverse the health cuts due next
The reinstatement of the first $107 million in federal health funding is a welcome first step, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard needs to commit to reversing the further $368 million in cuts that are slated for June 30.
The move is evidence that the Gillard government knew all along that these cuts were unwarranted and would hurt Victorians.
This announcement highlights the shameful actions of Labor’s Martin Pakula and Khalil Eideh and the Greens’ Colleen Hartland, who voted against the Coalition’s motion in Parliament which expressed its concern at cuts to the Commonwealth government’s share of health funding.
Andrew Elsbury, Western Metropolitan Region MLC
