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Sunday, 15 June 2025

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Letters to the Editor

Ignoring the advice?

FOR many years now a great many scientists have been warning governments around the globe that burning fossil fuels, coal, gas and oil, to produce energy must be severely curtailed to avoid a climate calamity in the not-far-off future. Murray Watt...

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Visit welcome, but support needed

GRAIN Producers SA (GPSA) welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to a grain and livestock producer on the Adelaide Plains on Monday as a sign the Federal Government acknowledges and understands the severe impact of South Australia’s...

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Winning the energy race

LIKE others, we’ve solved our household-level energy crisis with solar panels on the roof and a home battery, plus heat pump. Achieving energy resilience at local, state and national levels, though more complicated, relies on a similar path of...

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Nominate a mental health leader

THIS year marks the 10th anniversary of the Australian Mental Health Prize — a decade of recognising important Australians changing lives through their work in mental health. From researchers and clinicians to lived experience leaders and local...

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Support for mental health

I WRITE on behalf of the not-for-profit Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia that helps people across the nation. We have now set up a key network which has become a growing community on the internet that – put simply – links people with...

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Turning community lights out?

CLOSE your eyes if you love the Mid Murray Council, and will read no bad word about them. The Murray Pioneer had a story on the front page, on Wednesday, May 21 (‘MMC growth potential’), talking about growth strategy for the Mid Murray Council...

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Glorified gossip?

THE TV stations could easily fit the so-called ‘news’ into half an hour if it wasn’t for the mindless ads. Have these advertisers ever heard of ‘word-of-mouth’ advertising? As it is, I think the television news is just glorified gossip...

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A win for houseboats

THE members of the Lock 5 division of the Renmark/Paringa Houseboat Collective welcome the announcement by Renmark Paringa Council that they have received significant funding to commence work on the bank infrastructure of the Lock 5 Marina. This has...

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Causing global anxiety?

The advent of Donald Trump to become President of the United States Of America has certainly caused many Americans to reconsider major life events. This is because widespread uncertainties created by the actions of Donald Trump have caused much...

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Misleading ads during election

A NEW poll conducted for The Australia Institute has found that 72 per cent of voters saw misleading political advertisements during the recent election campaign, with well over half of those exposed to misleading ads every day. While Australia’s...

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Energy reform must be made

TODAY’S final determination of the Default Market Offer (DMO) for 2025-26 by the Australian Energy Regulator further highlights how the DMO is failing to protect energy consumers – particularly those on lower incomes – from paying unreasonably...

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Communities can help cut power bills

REWIRING Australia says communities will play an important role in protecting households from price hikes, after the Australian Energy Market Operator warned of a surge in electricity infrastructure costs. AEMO’s Draft 2025 Electricity Network...

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Batteries policy a winner?

BECAUSE it can moderate the price of electricity during peak demand, and simultaneously tackle emissions and cost of living, and start to do so relatively soon, Labor’s ‘Cheaper Home Batteries’ is a policy the Coalition would do well to match...

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Distant people, distant perspectives

WOMEN are the best economists. Never pay attention to what men say, women are the ones that pay. I was chatting after voting today, and the present is expletively bleak. Distant people making policies that don’t work, for people who do. They asked...

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Commitment to effective action

JENNIFER Mattinson is right (‘Climate change to change voting’, letters, 21/5/25). We need to elect politicians who understand climate science and have the commitment and capacity to take effective action. While many believe nothing Australi...

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