Letters

Letters, September 3, 2025

Sustainable agriculture costings ANDREW Crouch asks for the costings for the example of sustainable agriculture as a way to reduce greenhouse emissions in my last letter to the editor (The Courier, August 20). Let me start with some facts: The...

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The Courier

03 Sep 2025

Letters

Letters, August 27, 2025

Constructive ideas IN recent weeks your letters pages have carried repeated claims dismissing the reality of climate change and contemplating conspiracies that are devoid of truth as much as they make no effort to improve our community’s...

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The Courier

27 Aug 2025

Letters

Letters, August 20, 2025

Carbon solution SA IS in the middle of a disastrous toxic algal bloom and since the solution is basically simple primary school arithmetic, I thought I should respond. Let’s start with some facts: It is my understanding that sustainable...

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The Courier

20 Aug 2025

Letters

Letters, August 13, 2025

Pointless rules I NOTICED in The Courier that Leyton Property has gone over the Mt Barker Council’s head and taken their development planning application to the ERD Court after it was rejected by the council assessment panel. It appears large...

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The Courier

13 Aug 2025

Letters

Letters, August 6, 2025

No surprise IN reference to the article “Clinic Green Light” (The Courier, July 30), certain facts should perhaps be clarified. The article indicates that it was Mt Barker Council’s decision to reject the developer’s planning application. In...

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The Courier

06 Aug 2025

Letters

Letters, July 30, 2025

No paid parking READING an article regarding considered paid car parking at the new Mt Barker Hospital by the present State Government left me angry. I was also angered to read that an RN who works at the hospital said that if they were made to pay...

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The Courier

30 Jul 2025

Letters

Letters, July 23, 2025

Wrong priorities ACCORDING to Matt Schulz’s Facebook page he has spent basically the whole of this week with Dan Cregan going through the electorate. Is Dan’s priority his job as the member for Kavel or is it Matt Schulz’s career aspiration? I...

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The Courier

23 Jul 2025

Letters

Letters, July 16, 2025

Parking problem I HAVE noticed and had personal difficulties finding a car park in the Summit Health Centre car park in recent times and this has been at 9.15am. There are 431 allotted spaces and I understand that workers have to park somewhere and...

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The Courier

16 Jul 2025

Letters

Letters, July 9, 2025

Hills Tourism GOVERNMENT announces a ‘refreshed tourism plan’ for the Hills, where there was ‘resilient, sustainable tourism’. The plan promised to increase the income from tourism, (The Courier, July 2). The bulk of the income currently...

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The Courier

09 Jul 2025

Letters

Letters, July 2, 2025

Mushroom safety ‘Death cap caution’ is a very interesting article (The Courier, June 25). So SA’s Chief Public Health Officer is telling Hills people there are these death cap mushies growing in the Hills “somewhere”. Perhaps as she is so...

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The Courier

02 Jul 2025

Letters

Letters, June 25, 2025

Drivers beware WE live in the Hills and have recently suffered two car tyre punctures in quick succession. Our local RAA rescuer told us that he is now attending around ten tyre puncture call-outs per day. Our tyre servicing business has told us...

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The Courier

25 Jun 2025

Letters

Letters, June 18, 2025

Unquestioned The recent article ‘Uninsurable’ in The Courier (June 4) presents a dire view of climate risk in Mayo – but offers little scrutiny of its source or the model-based assumptions it relies on. For context, the risks posed in the...

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The Courier

18 Jun 2025

Letters

Letters, June 11, 2025

Destroying country THE planting, maintenance and removal of trees is not just a debate about “function” and policies about “canopy”. What are the laws about tree removal and private property, and should they be reviewed? In my neighborhood...

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The Courier

11 Jun 2025