Carpark needs attention
Two years ago my letter "With winter rains come potholes" brought immediate attention and within two weeks the potholes in Woolworths carpark were repaired.
How disappointing that the landlord of the Warragul Woolworths and Target carparks again has let them fall to disrepair. The pot holes are so large that small cars would be “grounding".
As a shareholder of Woolworths I have a vested interest that the customers keep shopping at Woolworths and don't choose to do their shopping where the parking is better.
Ian Stacy, Warragul admitted in evidence at the Quarantine Enquiry you can bet that the State Government, elected representatives and bureaucrats will be sued via individual and class actions. That has been acknowledged in public by the State Attorney General Jill Hennessy.
Result: In addition to the casualty toll, there will be massive legal payouts that will have to be paid by the taxpayer.
The paradox is that the same team, who by their incompetence bought you COVID-19, may be the first to be prosecuted under their own industrial manslaughter laws!
One of the positive outcomes of this enquiry is that taxpayers will have reinforced the legal obligation that Government services are to be delivered by the best qualified employees regardless of their race, gender, social status or sexual proclivity.
The climb out of COVID-19 is also going to be difficult. BBSC Council, State and Federal Governments must set the conditions for economic recovery as the first priority. We need and must demand the best employees to set those conditions and implement solutions.
BBSC may yearn to hold the social engineering high ground but if they fail to perform in their core business, as with Labor’s Melbourne COVID-19, no social purity is going to save them from the law or the electorate.
At every level of government, in Victoria especially, the “toll” numbers should be shown prominently in all HR offices with the Mantra: “Only the qualified and the competent need apply.”
Bill Westhead, Warragul