Letters to the Editor

Text Line 15/1/24

I just heard that people buying into the proposed Jane Eliza Estate Development will receive two life jackets and a yabby net. GARY Waikerie So nothing to see here is what the Renmark Paringa Council wants us to believe about development on the...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Violence risks during the holidays

MAKING Australians safer needs action – not announcements. As 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence ends, Australians enter one of the most dangerous times of the year, the festive season. It is known that financial pressures...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Failing on energy?

SUMMER is here and, unfortunately, on top of paying the highest power prices in the nation, South Australians are also facing an increased risk of blackouts. Last month, it was revealed the Labor Government is looking at restarting mothballed diesel...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Thank you for Gum Tree support

FOR many years the Loxton Gum Tree has been providing social, sporting and recreational activities for people in the Riverland who have an intellectual disability. We concluded our 2024 program on 9 December, at the Loxton Historical Village, with...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Too late for sandbar access?

WELL done to the clowns that destroyed the Theile’s Sandbar access roads, in Loxton, during the rain events in late 2024. I hope the custodians of the area make the roads useable again very quickly before the next mob of clowns start smashing new...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

In support of free RV site

I REFER to The Murray Pioneer story on 24 December headed ‘Free RV site concern’. I believe the Waikerie Loxton council should be congratulated on making a RV site available for the travelling self-sufficient caravaners. The vans that stop there...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Waikerie and Loxton a bad marriage

WHAT a mob of whingers some Waikerie-ites are. The two councils should never have amalgamated. The significantly larger rate base at Loxton’s end props up Waikerie. The only way forward is for larger amalgamations, so that petty rivalries are...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Fighting for the Riverland

THE Riverland is the oldest irrigation settlement in Australia and was one of the biggest fruit bowls in the country. We are also one of the most efficient and environmentally sustainable irrigation settlements in the country and have...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Opinion on Jane Eliza Development

I WOULD like to congratulate the Renmark citizens who have spoken out about the actions of the Renmark Paringa Council regarding the re-development of an existing floodplain. The time is really up when elected members must listen to the voices of...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Successful 2024 Toy and Tucker Run

THE Ulysses Mallee Branch would like to thank all the people who came out and donated non-perishable food, money and toys to our collection vehicle at the various stopping points during the Riverland Toy and Tucker Run. We raised $5638 in cash on...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Mayor’s Jane Eliza response

WE acknowledge the concern by some members of our community, as expressed through letters to the editor in recent editions of The Murray Pioneer. There is no doubt that all river users need a viable slip and marina for everyone in Renmark, however...

Staff Contributors

15 Jan 2025

Editorial

Councils are hurting the regions

THERE was once a time when rural councils, now local government, represented and supported their communities. They were operated and managed by locals for the betterment of the community. They were generally respected by the community with some kind...

Staff Contributors

08 Jan 2025

Editorial

BBC ratepayers like mushrooms

IN reply to Chris Page’s letter in The Murray Pioneer (‘Expensive Berri Barmera offices’, Pioneer, 18/12/24), I agree with everything he has said. If the Berri Town Hall was owned privately, could an owner simply close the doors and walk away?...

Hugh Schuitemaker

08 Jan 2025

Editorial

Jane Eliza plan transparency?

THE Jane Eliza Estate development in Renmark should not go ahead. Concerns from locals are not “scare mongering”. The feelings of those expressing these concerns are based on past history, and if you think for one minute we won’t have another...

Staff Contributors

08 Jan 2025

Editorial

Queries about council development

THE article titled ‘Have no fear’ (Pioneer, 24/12/24), in my view, puts down those in this community who see the proposed housing development on the floodplain as a disaster. The suggestion that the Renmark Paringa Council made the decision to...

Staff Contributors

08 Jan 2025