Give city’s CBD a banner boost at Christmas time
I HAVE written to the mayor, as a local retail business, ratepayer and also as a sixth-generation Bathurstian, to ask him to support the purchase, by Bathurst Regional Council, of Christmas banners to hang on our street light standards.
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Improving the streetscape of our city at Christmas with these banners makes perfect sense to me because it is a one-off purchase and therefore they can be re-used for many years. An attractive, inviting atmosphere in the Bathurst CBD makes good sense for many reasons.
An aesthetically pleasing streetscape is essential for economic development and small, local businesses need to encourage people to shop locally. Most businesses do their bit with special window displays, local media advertising and Christmas sales.
We would very much appreciate council doing its bit.
An attractive CBD also helps keep the environment clean by promoting people’s pride in their city which leads to less littering, graffiti, etc.
When the benefits are so great it makes good sense to support Christmas banners, as the council does for the Winter Festival and many other events.
Judy King, King’s Antiques
State’s spending priorities ignore the environment
THE 2017 NSW Budget is a short-sighted joke for future generations who will be left with a cooked planet and a legacy of extinct species and degraded ecosystems.
It is typical of the government’s disregard for nature that the environment portfolio was largely overlooked in possibly the state’s biggest spending budget ever.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian had a chance to plot a path out of the climate change and energy quagmire, but she failed to rise to that challenge.
The government urgently needs a clean energy transition plan to make the state carbon neutral by 2050, but it still does not have one, and there was nothing for it in the budget.
Worse, it raided $240 million from the Climate Change Fund to pay for private land conservation in a pathetic attempt to justify its disastrous land clearing laws.
It’s all well and good to invest in kids’ sport, but what about a safe climate and their future?
James Tremain, communications manager, Nature Conservation Council of NSW
Let’s bust the myths about those with schizophrenia
I AM writing on behalf of One Door Mental Health, a member of the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia, to highlight a new awareness campaign designed to inform readers on schizophrenia.
Our campaign is all about breaking down barriers for people with severe mental illness. People with schizophrenia struggle to get the services they need, experience ongoing stigma and discrimination, and are among the most economically and socially marginalised people in Australia.
It’s a national tragedy that the average life expectancy of someone with schizophrenia is just 54 years old. We estimate that less than 50 per cent of people who have schizophrenia are getting clinical or recovery assistance.
This is precisely why we ask readers to reach out. If you or someone you know has schizophrenia, we are here to help.
The Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia has a free service to help readers everywhere. All people need to do is ring 1800 985 944 or visit minetworks.org.au.
It is time we busted the myths that surround schizophrenia – like the idea that people with schizophrenia never recover, that people with schizophrenia have multiple personalities, or that they are dangerous.
Join us in building a mentally healthy Australia – one where all Australians get a fair go.
