Dear Editor

I am appreciating your publication, in particular the (mercifully short) excerpts from the last council meeting.

Also, the articles on the $30 million secret stash and the (beholden) position of other media with the increased advertising spend, of our money, from council were informative reading.

I also enjoyed the contribution from 18-year-old Amity from Fish Creek and her passion for environmental and social issues, and that she didn’t lecture or make demands on the rest of us. Her letter reminded me of my own commitment to such issues as a younger person and the quote attributed to Winston Churchill that “anyone who is not a communist (greenie) at the age of 20 has no heart ………”

Steve Finlay

Leongatha