Appalling tales like this are not ancient history
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January 31, 2021 â 10.00pm
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The Age, email letters@theage.com.au. Please include your home address and telephone number.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Appalling tales like this are not ancient history
Many thanks to Tony Wright for his searing account of the life of Monty Foster, a Victorian Aboriginal man (âHaunted by Montyâs last danceâ, Insight,
The Age, 30/1/, detailing the devastation wreaked on him and his family by Victorian government agencies. These actions are not ancient history; they certainly happened during my lifetime and their impact is generational.
These decisions belong with government bodies
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BUILDING MODERN MELBOURNE
These decisions belong with government bodies
Why should a private corporation, such as Melbourne Airport, have the planning power to stop development because they don’t want curfews or pushback from resident groups (‘‘Airport chiefs eye flight path veto’’,
The Age, 18/1)?
Planning decisions should remain the responsibility of state and local government entities.
As for the reported 20 noise complaints a month, that it is a huge number, because once a resident has registered a noise complaint, their next complaint is not counted again, so this translates to at least 240 new complainants each year.
This is common sense
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This is common sense
The state’s clinical information sharing bill appears to be common sense to me (‘‘Planned health database ‘trashes privacy’’’, The Sunday Age, 6/12) .
Whenever you enter hospital for a procedure, you are required to fill out lengthy admission forms that ask you extensive information about past illnesses and procedures and when they occurred as well as current medications. The older you get, the more extensive that list will be.
If the information was available on a database it would save a lot of time and effort on both the patient and the person collecting the data, apart from increasing the accuracy and reliability of the information collected.