Vaccination views
THE Guardian (Friday October 8) featured a front cover story in which Amy Maynard provided readers with an excellent description of the elation shared by noted community members, such as our mayor, Peter Abrahams, and Rick Kent on the outstanding vaccination rates we have achieved.
As Rick states, “It is a milestone ….something we can be proud of.”
What a wonderful, dedicated effort by our health workers to whom we owe a deep gratitude.
It is extremely important we are all as one during this stressful time of COVID.
However in the Conversation section, Alan Holloway expresses his dismay at the Federal Member for Mallee encouraging people to sign her petition opposing mandatory vaccination.
Her behaviour not only exposes her incompetence and arrogance, but also her utter contempt for people of the Mallee.
I have been told she has since changed her stance on this issue, but obviously only because of community criticism.
As a retired school teacher I am surprised that a person in her position could display such complete disregard for people, especially the younger members of our community who are suffering disrupted and confusing lives.
It is essential that the people of the Mallee have a political representative who not only leads, but also serves and supports.
Peter Clutterbuck, WOORINEN.
A poem for the blue wren
A FAVOURITE of mine is the little blue wren,
He hops around with his tiny brown hen.
His glorious colour’s a temporary state,
For seduction and mating with his tiny tan mate.But he’s fickle, untrue and goes out on the town,
Finds others to mate, a harem to bed down.
His eyes wander askance, he sows his wild oats,
Seduces the girls who are dressed in brown coats.Post the frenzy of avian feather seduction,
The girls are intent on wren reproduction.
And after the eggs have become balls of down,
Dad moults out the blue, and dresses in brown.He and his mates with their miniscule troop,
Feverishly hunt for their food as a group.
The chicks at two weeks, brown feathers external,
Protected and guarded by brown wrens maternal.When 40 days old, they become quite mature,
In a group catching food, so they feel more secure.
Then once they turn one, a new group is found,
The cycle restarts, they become fairy blue gowned.
Denise Martin, GISBORNE.
