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Don't play Play now More video Recommended Click to play video A-League bans 'dangerous' overhead banners Click to play video Tendulkar to retire after 200th Test Click to play video Castro death possibly auto-erotic asphyxiation Click to play video Actions louder than words in debt debacle Click to play video Canadian author wins Nobel literature prize Replay video Return to video Video settings Please Log in to update your video settings Con the seasoned letter writer Con Vaitsas discusses why his letters to the editor numbers in the thousands. PT2M47S http://www.smh.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2uftw 620 349 September 26,[url=http://www.vestadesign.co.nz/Moncler_Sale.html]Moncler Sale[/url], 2013 Autoplay OnOff Video feedback Video settings Brett Watkins' dismay has little to do with housing prices in Sydney, ("Young home buyers abandoned by their parents and pollies", September 26). It is about false expectation. When I grew up, house prices were also very high in relative terms. Most of my friends moved to affordable areas of Sydney. Others, perhaps more sensible, opted for a "renovator's dream" in a better suburb closer to the coast. In those days, almost no one had been to Hamilton Island for a holiday, travelled Europe or owned a new motor vehicle. Is the dream of the Bondi home just unrealistic? We had much lower expectations that allowed us to accumulate the 20 per cent deposit banks demanded. They also wanted a five-year stable work history. I bought a renovator for about half what the bank would lend us. Advertisement Half a million dollars buys you a very swish new apartment in Rhodes. Where are you trying to live? Bondi? How about starting with something less grand? Gary Bigelow Oatlands Here's a tip for people looking to buy a first home at a modest price: get a compass and head west. Live somewhere unfashionable and wait for it to catch up to you. If you insist on living in the eastern suburbs or inner west, you'll be renting. The first home I bought was in a very unfashionable area. So was the second one. And the third. Each of those areas became fashionable – and I don't think it was just because I lived there. (Marrickville has now become so cool I'm going to have to start dressing better). Scott Brunsdon Marrickville Our journey started in North Richmond and progressed through Winmalee, Glenhaven and then to Rozelle – all without "parental help" – and our kids (aged 33 and 36) both have bought affordable properties in suburbs distant from us to begin their own journey. Yes,[url=http://www.luxurygoodstore.com/Moncler_Coats.html]Moncler Coats[/url], we would all prefer they were near to us in the inner west, but they accept reality. We do have a (now) paid-for investment property purchased to help bolster our superannuation so that we can be self-funded retirees and not be a drain on the taxpayers of the future. Linda Maike Rozelle Brett Watkins' article illustrates that the Australian dream of owning one's own house is now well beyond the average young person. While we still have ludicrous policies like negative gearing, it will continue to be so. Because more than 90 per cent of negatively geared investors purchase established properties, the policy does little to increase the supply of new dwellings while costing Australian taxpayers billions of dollars in revenue. Our new government has an opportunity to lessen the attraction of negative gearing. Wayne Swan did not have the courage to change the rort, so now it is over to you, Tony Abbott. Peter Nash Fairlight High house prices keep the young out of the market and allow us oldies to afford investment properties, get high yields on our bank shares and pay ourselves tens of millions of dollars if we are bank chief executives. John Galbraith said: "History shows that the rich and privileged, given the choice between sharing their wealth and dying to protect it, will choose the latter every time." So abandon hope, the banks run the show now. John Murray Cowan Would you be willing, starting at 21, to eat out just once a year on your birthday, never have takeaway,[url=http://www.fieg.it/Moncler_Prezzi.asp]Moncler Prezzi[/url], only ever eat frozen bulk-bought meat? Would you be happy to have just three shirts, very little furniture and sit on packing cases? And holidays. How about one every couple of years, driving up to Queensland and staying at a cheap rate in a workmate's place, but definitely no overseas travel? Could you learn to be entertained by all the wonderful things you can do without spending lots of money? 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For this - and only this - reason I have in recent years consistently supported the Australian Greens. If we greens and the scientists are wrong to take precautions we will have done no harm. Disappointingly, in the recent federal election campaign the party appeared to put the climate on the backburner. This issue was equated with, and largely obscured by, issues such as same-sex marriage and refugees. This is not to dispute the worthiness of these other concerns, only to say that for the Greens the most important and distinctive campaign issue should be the threat of global warming, the environment and related issues such as coal seam gas and the priority need for alternative energy. And that this should be stated unequivocally. In the recent election campaign it most certainly was not. I expressed these misgivings to the party headquarters during the campaign but so far have had no reply. I also explained that I am not alone. I strongly suspect it was this dissipated campaign policy which accounted for the diminished support for the party. Patricia Penn Lane Cove Elizabeth Farrelly raises some interesting issues (''Planning joke needs a killer punchline'', September 26). The ''killer'' reform clearly needs to start at state government level, with a new planning ideology, bureaucracy and director-general. The corrupted planning processes begin at that level with ''financial viability'' being the front and centre of strategic planning. Financial planning has replaced town planning. No wonder developers and vested interests and their mates in local and state government feel so powerful in this state. Kathy Cowley Lindfield That the planning arrangements in NSW need to be changed is not in doubt. The main problem with what has been proposed so far by the state government has significant major flaws: (a) The idea the community will engage in a so-called ''strategic review'' is laughable. The community only becomes engaged in local issues when it starts to affect them personally. (b) When people find that they have no right of objection to a nearby development they will then go ballistic; too late. (c) The minister has the power to override virtually anything he wants anyway - which is the road to corruption and damnation. Having involved myself in the fiasco of local planning I really wonder if local councils actually contribute anything at all to the process. In the end they generally do what the Department of Planning wants. Guy Hallowes Lane Cove Sydney claims to be a ''world city''. In an economic sense that may well be so. I contend, however, that it's becoming an increasingly ugly city. Ironically, the cause is partly found in that same success. Suburbs are being transformed by once adequate homes being demolished, blocks cleared from fence to fence and replaced with huge monuments to bad taste and excess. 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(''Button up: Abbott to keep ministers in check'', September 26). Ever since the ''Hopetoun Blunder'' in 1901 when our first governor-general appointed William Lyne as interim PM, ministers have been putting their foot in it, saying and doing the wrong thing. Lyne was deeply unpopular and unable to form a government and Hopetoun was in the embarrassing position of having to pick again. Mr Abbott has decided that all ministers must first check with his communications officer Kate Walshe before they can even do a local radio broadcast. Will they have to ask her permission before they attend speech days at the primary school, in case they might be asked to say a word or two? Moya Gibb Smith Paddington Just too nice The Albanese v Shorten contest supports a case to bring back the biff. Max Horton Adelaide Abbott in reverse already One day Education Minister Christopher Pyne says one thing. The next day his Prime Minister says the opposite. (''Abbott shelves Pyne plan to scrap uni fees,'' smh.com.au, September 26). So much for ''careful, collegial, consultative, straightforward government that says what it means and does what it says'', to quote the Prime Minister after winning the election. Ross Pulbrook Wyong Buses to the rescue There are winners and losers with the new train timetables and probably many more winners than losers. (''Altered train times mean school's in a little earlier'', September 26). Among the significant losers are those who live west of Katoomba. Those living between Katoomba and Springwood miss out, too. Problems presented include people having to drive considerable distances to work or to park their vehicles at the key stations such as Katoomba. There is growing pressure on the parking at Katoomba, of course. Buses should travel the Great Western Highway at appropriate times, stopping only at the vicinity of railway stations. Many people could then cope with the problems of the new timetable. As well, significant problems which exist with the current timetable would be addressed. Richard Soady Blackheath To the north, Austranesia It appears that Indonesia's co-operation in ''stopping the boats'' will be rewarded with an agricultural colony on Australian soil. Barnaby Joyce has muted his criticism of the Indonesian government's proposed land purchase (''Indonesian land buy may go over 1.5m hectares'', smh.com.au, September 25). Once approved, the colossal beef farming enterprise would probably be administered by Indonesians and its profits sent back to Indonesia, its taxes might be avoided by transfer pricing - where the local operation sells at cost price (or less) to the foreign parent company. Put simply - there would be no economic benefit for Australia. Having established their interests here, the Indonesians could then return to whatever boat-arrival policy they prefer. A blunder of historic proportions is currently unfolding. Marco Fante Katoomba Team USA? Not a bit of it! It was Team Oz Oh dear, Team USA has retained the America's Cup. To make matters worse for the Kiwis,[url=http://www.dormgrow.com/Men_Moncler_Jackets.html]Men Moncler Jackets[/url], the US boat was skippered by an Aussie (Jim Spithill), with Aussie strategist Tom Slingsby, Aussie trimmer Kyle Langford, Aussie grinders Will McCarthy and Sam Newman and Aussie coach Darren Bundock. Expect repercussions. Watch out all Aussie teams. Richard Stewart Pearl Beach "Team USA". The best that money could buy. Bill Turbet Bexley Any Kiwi not turning up for work today is a bum. Bernie Bourke Ourimbah The thing that I find most interesting about the recent interviews regarding Australia's win in the America's Cup 30 years ago is the miraculous return of Alan Bond's memory. Alan Marel North Curl Curl How do you put the cork back in a champagne bottle? Ask a Kiwi sailor. Ross Flanery Galong James Spithill has made Lazarus look like a malingerer. Ted Hamilton Normanhurst No sooner said . . . Tony Abbott wants to take politics off the front page. The Herald of September 26 has sport there already. (“Button up: Abbott to keep ministers in check”, Page 8, and “Drugs cloud over Roosters",[url=http://www.officefurniturehut.com/Canada_Goose_coats.html]Canada Goose coats[/url], Page 1). Andrew Harris Rozelle Ring-ins court out Ring-ins for the Scots first XI or XV maybe, but basketball? How frightfully uncouth. Jason Purvis Balmain So much togetherness The discussion over the past week of a collection of unpublished letters emphasises how the letters page and also Column 8 bring together the citizens of such a great city. Though we never meet we come to know each other's humour, political opinions (sometimes very predictable), astuteness and sense of caring, in a way that brings us all together as though we lived in a small village. It is a great feeling and may it ever be so. Clive Williams Lavender Bay Will my letter be accepted? I have not had a successful letter since 1982! Gemma McCormack Darling Point
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