This rubbish (pictured right) I picked up on my morning walks at Billy Goat Hill - the look out, over one weekend only.

This is a popular tourist spot, what must they think when they see this.

Do you think Cowra Council has the ratepayers concern in mind when I am hearing complaints left right and centre, the roads are a dreadful mess, the pathways are all over the place, unfenced dams where children play, cars are parked across footpaths in Redfern Street forcing school kids to walk down the road to avoid them, no proper crossing near schools, livestock being attacked by dogs and nothing done.

And the contents of septic tank filling my back yard fed by council drains.

Do we expect too much?

Karl Davis

Darbys Falls

Wow, just finished reading the letter from Joylene Simpson, regards a letter from a Ms McGarey from Melbourne on uncivil behaviour by some.

Well, I don’t know either of you and I have no idea if what Ms McGarry wrote is true or not, but Joylene Siimpsn, I to am outraged by behaviour by some of your community.

I have been asked for money at least four times, threatenly demanded that I give a young bloke a Pepsi, asked for my mobile phone and have seen children refuse to leave a person’s yard when they have been asked to leave, goading the elderly gent hoping he would fall as they circled him.

Police were called, it’s a fact.

I’ve again seen skateboards being ridden fast in Coles arcade, with not a shred of concern for the elderly or infirm.

I prefer to think of Cowra as a community as a whole, you obviously like to see two communities.

A wrong is a wrong, no matter what your heritage is. Bad manners, crime, cowardice threats have nothing to do with a person’s race.

The person who sins, disgraces himself/herself.

Quite frankly I found your letter to be racist.

I am a 72 year old pensioner, I worked all my life, I spent 23 years at sea and I’ve had several Aboriginal mates at sea. Our different races were never an issue, we had a common goal.

You have nothing to be outraged about.

John Stewart

On Tuesday, October 11, thousands of people across the country generously threw their support behind the inaugural headspace day. 

headspace day celebrated 10 years of innovation in youth mental health and was also triggered by alarming new research from Orygen and headspace that revealed over 50 per cent of young people were waiting six or more months before seeking help for mental health issues. 

This period of waiting and worrying can have detrimental effects. 

From social isolation to relationship breakdowns, drug and alcohol abuse and in severe cases, incidents of self-harm or suicide. 

The research also uncovered that close to 50 per cent of young people said financial cost was a barrier in preventing them from getting treatment.

Nearly half said they believed they could not be helped and more than 50 per cent said they were afraid of what others would think. 

We need to change these perceptions.

headspace has made outstanding progress over the past ten years but we still have a way to go.

Professor Patrick McGorry AO