WHY won’t our politicians listen to the community who pays their wages when we say “No” to light rail.

This one-sided project that the community has written so many letters about to the daily paper for months should not go ahead.

How many millions have been wasted already on consultants just to reach “Rattenbury’s Dream”. Our politicians should use our money wisely, not squander it. Use it to fix the buses, on the Mr Fluffy fiasco, education and health. Even a green bin would be nice.

Please have a mini-referendum and help the taxpayer for a change.

Jo Forester, Curtin

Article doesn’t reflect reality

I FEEL that as a local magazine, you have to take responsibility to engage contributors who don’t take lightly the precarious situation that’s affecting the whole civilised world at present.

It seems to me that John Griffiths’ article (“There’s more to fear than what we fear”, CN, September 4) on the threat of militant Islam doesn’t at all reflect what we, the general public, are reading and seeing every day on a variety of news outlets.

He can say whatever he wants about the way our government is dealing with the fact that many Australians are going to join forces with extremists in the Middle East and how we should be protected from extremists in this country. However, a local magazine like “CityNews” should not provide a podium for his views.

I hurry to add that I am neither Jewish or of any other anti-Islamic race.

Ron Wilmot