I write in reply to the letter by Matt Kean, Minister for Better Regulation in the Cowra Guardian on the 21st March.
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What a joke.
After seeing all the media on Quad bike safety, I contacted the NSW Farmers association last week and was informed as a hobby farmer, I was not entitled to the rebate even though I own acres, buy and sell animals a few times now and again and own a quad bike which I use every single day.
There response was, sorry, but without an ABN, you don’t qualify.
I was told, quote, “You can always buy your own safety equipment” unquote.
In other words, my safety is not all that important.
As I see it, it’s just a political stunt to gain votes.
As a retired pensioner, I am no longer required to submit a tax return and see no benefit in applying for an ABN.
To join the NSW farmers as an associated member would cost me $100 per year with no voting rights.
ABN farmers/graziers, who earn an income from their land, could well afford to purchase safety equipment without government assistance.
If I understand the situation correctly, money is not the issue.
It’s SAFETY.
The government is pushing the Quad Bike Safety issue with ads on TV and newspapers so all land holders should qualify.
I can understand that if some person who lives in a town owns a quad bike, it’s up to them to look after their safety.
All we see on TV is another quad bike accident. No details. It’s not the bikes fault.
Just like a gun is not dangerous unless someone loads it.
Are these accidents the fault of the rider, too fast, going over rough steep ground that should not be travelled? What???
Roy Adams
I didn’t ask to be bundled
I wish to seriously question how Telstra considers the my latest bill justified.
How did I become liable to pay for Home Internet Small Bundles, whatever they are, between February 15 and April 7 and an activation fee of $59?
I have not asked for them, I do not want them and I hope I never need them.
We just want our main home phone to be operating when we need it.
When our telephone became inoperative for the second time in January I contacted Telstra and reported the problem.
Several days later a Telstra employee arrived when I was away and my wife and a lady who was assisting her with household chores assumed that he had come to fix telephone and allowed him to enter our home.
He did not make our home phone on landline operative.
He connected what I assume is an Internet Bundle to our main telephone and it is now useless.
We have two cordless phones one in the office and one in the bedroom and we have to try to answer all calls on those phones but we mostly get to the phone too late and the caller has hung up.
I am a 92 year old war veteran and my wife is 84 years old and recovering from recent surgery on a fractured femur and needs a Walker on Wheels to move around the home.
I have reported my extreme concern to Telstra, just a waste of time.
I contacted Data Voice and expressed my extreme concern that our home phone was not working and that a Telstra employee appeared to have made the problem much worse and sought their assistance.
I understand they have reported the problem several times and seven weeks later we have still had no response from Telstra.
I believe that billing us for Home Internet Small Bundles which we did not need, for seven weeks and ignoring many requests to make our landline home operative is totally unacceptable.
T.H. Bryant