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Poverty amid plenty, environmental destruction, mistrust of institutions, rampant urban spread, employment uncertainty, disaffected youth and financial chaos, welcome to Planet Barr, says letter writer BILL O'CONNELL.
"The most egregious tactics to kill the revelations of corporate wrongdoing have been recently revealed by investigative reporter Adele Ferguson," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The anger rises whenever I look back at the hospital starved for funds that could at least have provided treatment for my weeping neighbour in the plastic ED ward, and a bed for myself in the extremis of despair, writes ROBERT MACKLIN.
Letter writer ERIC HUNTER, of Cook, says his journalistic luck was in coming before today’s "unfettered social media, which allows people anonymously to make claims with no regard for truth or the presumption of innocence".
Letter writer RON LEICHT says: "We can't get roads fixed, footpaths fixed, hospitals to run efficiently, but we sure need the tree police!" The tree police? We'll let him explain...