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Shorten changed
AGAIN Mr Shorten has promised many more millions of dollars to families and this time it’s swimming lesson for their kids.
I have nothing against kids learning to swim but taxpayers paying for it — I don’t think so.
Then Mr Shorten has promised to spend more millions of dollars on those who lost their jobs as a result of the closure of the car industries.
This decision was made during a Labor government period.
What about all those laid off from the mining industry, closure of small businesses, and those unemployed?
Mr Shorten’s 100 policy website lists spend, spend, spend but how or where he is getting the money from is not so clear. Higher tax and charges?
Mr Short and co are telling the unions what they are going to do for them but nothing about pensioners, retirees, veterans, the homeless, etc.
Mr Shorten I have heard that you are going to cut the pay and entitlements of all Defence Force personnel and reduce the pensions for those on a Dept of Veterans Affairs  disability pensioners and war widows. Is this so?
Previous Labor Gov’t’s have!
Steven Cruden
Edwards St, Leda

For your eyes only
HAVING been reliably informed that letters to City of Bayswater councillors at their council address are, or have been, intercepted by someone other than the addressee, I wrote to mayor McKenna for his assurance this was not the case.
My letter was written on March 9 but to this time I have not received any assurance that the allegation is without foundation.
It is this writer’s belief that letters from ratepayers to their elected representatives should enjoy a degree of legal privilege and that access to to those letters by persons other than the addressee is a breach of that privilege.
Bayswater ratepayers should be assured that letters they write to their ward councillors reach them without interference.
The failure of Cr McKenna to respond to my letter might indicate an inability to offer the assurance that was sought.
Vince McCudden
Almondbury Street, Bayswater