Letters & Texts

Sack council

The Geelong council should be sacked. Its incompetence is now clearly apparent in so many areas – financial management, project management, the replacement of the CEO, and the ongoing disaster of the CBD. We now have a council that is reducing services to the community, and seems incapable of getting what needs to be done in the CBD started and completed.

It gives the impression of having no worthwhile vision for the future of Geelong and of totally lacking in enthusiasm and dynamism. It seems to be content with just muddling along and unless there is a change Geelong faces a bleak future.

Terry O’Brien, Newtown

Decision disgrace

The decision by the Geelong council to abandon January 26 as Australia Day is a disgraceful display of political correctness. Council should be sacked as its decision was a savage blow to our national identity and cohesion and outside its remit as a council.

Political issues such as the observance of national holidays is outside the purview of councils.

The council’s decision is an insult to all those brave pioneers who came from many lands to forge a great modern nation. And why did our fathers and forefathers go off and risk life and limb in two world wars under the Southern Cross flag?

It’s high time the council was replaced with men and women who believe in Australian values, because clearly they don’t.

Shame on you councillors. Their woke decision was unpatriotic and an embarrassment.

Alan Barron, Grovedale

Meeting disgust

I cannot begin to express my utter disgust at the behaviour of the mayor and councillors at Tuesday night’s meeting when questions that library members were expecting to ask the council about libraries were totally wiped from the agenda.

The mayor said emails answering those questions had been sent out, so there was no need for them to be raised personally at the meeting. Like many other library supporters, I got up and walked out at this point.

This was a disgrace and a total dishonour to the way question time should be run.

I say this as a mayor of the former City of Newtown, and a councillor for 12 years. A council is there to listen to the community’s concerns, to genuinely consult with them.

The mayor and council, by their behaviour, acted in total disregard of what their primary function should be. It was disgraceful. I can’t begin to express my contempt.

Jan Laidlaw, Newtown