Good call
I TOTALLY endorse your comments on advertising revenue, and where/how it is spent (“A simple solution,” Herald, April 6, 2024).
It seems that the government has jumped onto the “digital revolution” bandwagon at the expense of community media.
I rather suspect that many people, like me, simply turns off an advertising that appears on our “devices”.
In fact this whole obsession with technology is a huge worry.
First the cheques disappeared, then the ATMs, now the banks are closing – and their “alternative,” the post offices are disappearing too.
It is absolutely daft.
What really bothers me is if – let’s be politically correct – a foreign nation decided to shut the down country.
With just a few key strokes, they could cripple the entire banking system.
Can you imagine?
No one carries cash any more – and the cards don’t work?
The entire country would grind to a halt.
Think about the implications …
On a similar subject, people have their entire lives invested in their phones.
What happens if said phones are lost, damaged or stolen?
Someone could be stranded miles from anywhere, if their vehicle broke down, or stuck somewhere in the middle of the night with no money, no means of communication.
Perhaps, they could borrow someone’s phone – or use one of the free public phones to call for help – but who remembers phone numbers, because they are all stored in the phone?
All a bit of a worry, isn’t it?
Take care and stay well.
Sheila Robbshaw
Leeming
An AUkward position
I WAS most surprised and shocked at our mayor of Fremantle taking what appears to be such a supportive position on AUKUS (“Greens wedge Freo on AUKUS support,” Herald, April 6, 2024).
I don’t think the Greens have any need of wedging the mayor and Labor on this issue: I have yet to come across anyone who is in favour of this absurdity which, besides anything else, sneaks nuclear in through the back door.
And there has not been the slightest attempt by either the previous or the current government, or anyone else that I’m aware of, to canvas the community about it.
Sure, the Murdoch press has been strongly promoting it and we remain utterly aghast at how eagerly prime minister Albanese embraced the idea.
Saner voices generally don’t think we’ll see this plan come to fruition, and certainly don’t believe it to be economically or practically viable.
If we haven’t yet seen a surge of opposition from the community, perhaps this is about to start happening now.
In hope.
Louis de Villiers
Hilton
The Ed says: We couldn’t agree more about the lack of consultation. The Morrison government summarily announcing Australia’s decades-old non-nuclear status is to be abandoned without any reference to voters is a cynical betrayal; choosing a weapon of war for our first dabble into the atomic age reeks of foolishness.