25/09/2008 | Protection of health and risks to agriculture are good reasons why federal and state governments should reinstate the ban on genetically engineered crops and pharmaceuticals.
25/09/2008 | When politicians and bureaucrats want to enact new laws that restrict our freedom and invade our privacy, they always say...
25/09/2008 | My name is Jeanette Elliott (nee Dermody).
My grandmother was Jessie Dermody (nee Brewster).
I was born and raised in Mount Gambier, and have had no contact with the Brewster side of my family.
25/09/2008 | What a low down despicable act “performed” by so called human beings.
The Kapunda CWA copped a hammering recently.
The red-topped wheelie bin was stolen on Friday.
25/09/2008 | “Desperate Riverland irrigators are being forced to burn hundreds of decade-old trees as one-third of growers prepare to walk off their blocks.”
25/09/2008 | This is an open letter to all those despicable creatures who keep smashing the windows of the SACWA Hall in Kapunda.
16/09/2008 | I specifically sought out the Delfin stand at the Gawler Show to obtain more information in respect to the Gawler East development
16/09/2008 | Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson, must think the people of Australia have extremely short memories, or that we are extremely stupid.
16/09/2008 | The electors of Mayo could learn a lesson or two in respect to the outcome in the seat of Lyne in NSW.
16/09/2008 | Having recently converted my car to gas I find it frustrating that gas is 10 to 15 cents-per-litre more in the Barossa
16/09/2008 | I decided to do a survey around my neighbourhood on “green bin waste recycling”
16/09/2008 | If ever there was a clear cut example of the need for senators to be truly independent, it was shown this past week.
16/09/2008 | As you have probably read our Kapunda Wrap With Love Knit In was a success, with maybe not as many people attending this year.
16/09/2008 | If as reported in the Herald (Sep 10) that money is being spent on upgrading the ‘heavy’ vehicle route of Siegersdorf Road, then why are these heavy vehicles allowed to come thundering in off the Sturt Highway
16/09/2008 | I would like to take this opportunity to commend the Barossa Council and the Department of Transport,
2/09/2008 | No-one would argue that without the father and the mother, the family does not exist in the first instance.
2/09/2008 | Nick Champion in his somewhat nauseous attempt to make the Socialist governments of the past appear as the champions of the people, refers to the decades of struggle, “to make sure that working Australians have a dignified retirement.”
2/09/2008 | Opponents of genetically modified (GM) crops, including multinational Greenpeace, are busily circulating petitions seeking ‘full’ GM labelling.
2/09/2008 | As the two big federal political parties - Liberal and Labor contest ownership of the latest ideas to make schools more accountable and to ‘revolutionise’ education in Australia, yet again the education needs of country kids are not being considered.
2/09/2008 | I found the pictorial graph on the back of the recent council budget summary, posted with rate charges, to be particularly effective in explaining council spending.
My thanks to whoever designed this pictorial representation.