DEAR News Of The Area,

THE economist J. K. Galbraith described monetarism as the theory that if the rich feed their horses on barley the poor can sustain themselves by picking grain from the droppings.

Why am I reminded of this whenever I hear that the best possible future for us all at the Jetty foreshore is to have luxury apartments built over a third of it?

The government’s enthusiasm for this arrangement can be explained by it providing them with the maximum financial return on their railway land, but it will take more than the findings of their duplicitous “survey” to convince me that Coffs citizens buy it.

I suppose we will find out when the only poll that matters occurs in March.

Regards,
Frank SCAHILL,
Coffs Coast.