All they see is an ugly cash cow for a developer

We should remember that when voters opted for change in 1965, after 24 years of Labor governments, they finished up with the 10-year premiership of Robert Askin. James Moore Kingsgrove Barry. An awful lot of us are really looking forward to the Big Love-In on March 26. We just didn't expect to have to cuddle up with that mad bloke from Canberra. We know he's somehow related, but could you ask him to stay at home for the next five weeks? David Luckie Moss Vale What gives Tony Abbott the right to comment on Barry O'Farrell's appearance (''He ain't pretty'')? Abbott's no oil painting. Margaret Hamilton Blackheath The last time NSW switched from a Labour to a Liberal government, Elton John was married to a woman. Just wanted to put that out there for all those who, like me, are feeling as though this election run-up has a faintly surreal ''and-then-I-woke-up-and-it-was-all-a-dream'' quality. Linda Hutchinson Naremburn Sixteen years in opposition and what have they come up with? A new train timetable (if you live on the right line). Mark Pearce Richmond The Liberal Party media release on express trains says one of the new services will stop at "Katoomba-Springfield-Penrith". Homer and his family will be pleased. Doug Walker Baulkham Hills Skewed views over the value of Barangaroo If there was any doubt the Tourism and Transport Forum is incapable of providing rational insight into the future of NSW, John Lee (Letters, February 21) has dispelled it once and for all. Mr Lee says ''the economy of Sydney and NSW is relying on the 6000 permanent new jobs'' generated by Barangaroo (a woolly predicted number at best). Really? Can we seriously believe 6000 new jobs are all that stand between a robust NSW economy and potential ruin? What about the other several million of us who will never have anything to do with Barangaroo? Don't we count when it comes to the economy of NSW? Please, drop the hyperbole and face the fact that many Sydneysiders see no benefit from the proposal. All they see is an ugly cash cow for a developer. Phil Jacombs Seaforth What is deeply worrying about the Lend Lease proposal in general and the hotel in particular is that it seems to set a potential legal precedent. Anyone Rosetta Stone Chinese (Mandarin) who has visited Hong Kong in the past 20 years has seen how its harbour has shrunk. Once the hotel is built on our harbour, other developers will no doubt follow, and in a few years we won't have to worry about traffic jams on the harbour bridges and tunnels - we will be able to drive or walk across. Katharine Stevenson PyrmontCoalition's new threat to fish stocks Duncan Gay says limits to fishing in marine parks are ''voodoo environmentalism" and there is a lack of scientific rigour around many of the assessments ("Marine parks up for review and promise of cash to cut fishing fleet", February 21). Our fish stocks are under enormous pressure, with some species in crisis. The science and the experience on the Great Barrier Reef demonstrates that ''no-take'' areas covering representative ecosystems are essential to maintain and rehabilitate fish stocks. Buying licences from fishers is nothing new and should be applauded. But with the evidence in about the success of marine parks in allowing fish stocks to build up (refer to NSW Fishing Monthly for glowing stories about the great fishing in the Batemans Marine Park, for example), it is extremely worrying to think that a Coalition government would act to reverse the great gains that have been made. Catherine Moore (former federal Greens candidate), BraidwoodSingle culture is still a foreign idea Paul Sheehan argues for "one language, one law, one culture. Everything else comes under the heading of individual freedom '' (''Loose lips on sunken ships expose cultural disharmony'', February 21). It is nonsense to suggest we have ever had one culture in this country.

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