It’s to be hoped a reasonable compromise can be reached regarding affordable housing in Harris Park (“Plan for 483 units in historic district”, September 18). Objections about someone’s view being interfered with, “not being suitable for the area” or someone might see what goes on in the church won’t wash. Every Australian is entitled to a roof over their head. Otherwise, we can’t call ourselves a civilised country.
Ian Adair, Hunters Hill
Maggie’s legacy
Caitlin Fitzsimmons’ article (“Redfern mural reminds us how women’s sport was driven out of town”, September 18), is a salient reminder and a towering tribute to Maggie Moloney, a 15-year-old pioneering rugby league giant, 101 years ago. This mural in a Redfern back lane is barely 50 metres from the house where she lived. It is also the lane where she practised her kicking under the guidance of her older brother, Bryan, a Rabbitohs’ junior player. Perfecting it for her unrivalled performance before a Sydney Morning Herald reported enthusiastic crowd of 30,000 at the Sydney Agricultural Ground. But for all her youth, natural talent, star status and humility she was denied the opportunity to play on by the patriarchal Rugby League officials of the day. Given the growing popularity of the women’s league, drawing larger crowds and more importantly, money, one is left wondering why the NRL officials haven’t given Maggie Moloney the long-overdue credit. The least they can do now is to give her pioneering efforts a “fair go” by renaming the NRLW award for the best and fairest player, the “Maggie M” medal and continue to inspire female players.
Kaz Kazim, Randwick
Not so safe
If I may, with all due respect, I wish to take issue with the sentiments expressed by Pamela Shepherd (Letters, September 18). I am also an older Australian (b. 1943), and at no time was it ever the case that, “under the Coalition we felt much safer”, at least as I was concerned. Why was this so? Because as well as being old, I am also Australian, love my country, which I served for 22 years in Defence, and felt anything but safe when the fate of the country was in the hands of Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison, Dutton, Joyce, et al. In fact, I felt distinctly nervous.
Ian Usman Lewis, Kentucky
Two sides of the coin
Your correspondent (Letters, September 18), “It seems rough to blame the Queen personally for the brutality of the Empire”. Elizabeth II enjoyed and endured the trappings (while suffering the constraints) of her enforced inheritance. How do you separate the personal grief and adulation of her passing from the evils of the Empire she could not (and did not) disown? The obverse of imperial glory is the opprobrium its offences have caused.
Ramani Venkatramani, Rhodes
Runaway train dispute
The ongoing dispute between the NSW government and the Rail, Bus and Tram Union (RBTU) appears to be a runaway train, not stopping at stations on a rail line that has no buffer stop or a plate to activate an emergency stop (“Union abandons threat to turn off Opal readers”, September 18). I thought this impasse was over safety, yet it seems the resolution is running late and out of timetable order.
Allan Gibson, Cherrybrook
Tax timing
Originally published at Sydney News HQ
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