It’s to be hoped an inexpensive compromise may be reached concerning inexpensive housing in Harris Park (“Plan for 483 items in historic district”, September 18). Objections about somebody’s view being interfered with, “not being appropriate for the realm” or somebody would possibly see what goes on within the church gained’t wash. Each Australian is entitled to a roof over their head. In any other case, we are able to’t name ourselves a civilised nation.
Ian Adair, Hunters Hill
Maggie’s legacy
Caitlin Fitzsimmons’ article (“Redfern mural reminds us how ladies’s sport was pushed out of city”, September 18), is a salient reminder and a towering tribute to Maggie Moloney, a 15-year-old pioneering rugby league big, 101 years in the past. This mural in a Redfern again lane is barely 50 metres from the home the place she lived. It is usually the lane the place she practised her kicking beneath the steerage of her older brother, Bryan, a Rabbitohs’ junior participant. Perfecting it for her unrivalled efficiency earlier than a Sydney Morning Herald reported enthusiastic crowd of 30,000 on the Sydney Agricultural Floor. However for all her youth, pure expertise, star standing and humility she was denied the chance to play on by the patriarchal Rugby League officers of the day. Given the rising recognition of the ladies’s league, drawing bigger crowds and extra importantly, cash, one is left questioning why the NRL officers haven’t given Maggie Moloney the long-overdue credit score. The least they’ll do now’s to offer her pioneering efforts a “truthful go” by renaming the NRLW award for the most effective and fairest participant, the “Maggie M” medal and proceed to encourage feminine gamers.
Kaz Kazim, Randwick
Not so secure
If I’ll, with all due respect, I want to take situation with the emotions expressed by Pamela Shepherd (Letters, September 18). I’m additionally an older Australian (b. 1943), and at no time was it ever the case that, “beneath the Coalition we felt a lot safer”, at the least as I used to be involved. Why was this so? As a result of in addition to being outdated, I’m additionally Australian, love my nation, which I served for 22 years in Defence, and felt something however secure when the destiny of the nation was within the fingers of Abbott, Turnbull, Morrison, Dutton, Joyce, et al. In reality, I felt distinctly nervous.
Ian Usman Lewis, Kentucky
Two sides of the coin
Your correspondent (Letters, September 18), “It appears tough accountable the Queen personally for the brutality of the Empire”. Elizabeth II loved and endured the trimmings (whereas struggling the constraints) of her enforced inheritance. How do you separate the private grief and adulation of her passing from the evils of the Empire she couldn’t (and didn’t) disown? The obverse of imperial glory is the opprobrium its offences have precipitated.
Ramani Venkatramani, Rhodes
Runaway practice dispute
The continued dispute between the NSW authorities and the Rail, Bus and Tram Union (RBTU) seems to be a runaway practice, not stopping at stations on a rail line that has no buffer cease or a plate to activate an emergency cease (“Union abandons menace to show off Opal readers”, September 18). I believed this deadlock was over security, but it appears the decision is working late and out of timetable order.
Allan Gibson, Cherrybrook
