Day, after day, after day.

Please step out your front door and roll your eyeballs around.

You will see many, many houses.

Please be a decent human being and hop off your motorcycle or encourage your parents/guardians to purchase a block further out of town.

Tim Hislop, Leeton.

You do not need to travel far to see that communities need upgrades to their local infrastructure.

Better roads, well-maintained schools, improved hospitals, water security and more sports and community facilities are needed in every corner of NSW. 

That’s why I called on the Nationals Leader, John Barilaro, to support Labor’s plan to invest 100% of the proceeds from the nationalisation of Snowy Hydro back into regional NSW.

This investment could create jobs, grow the economy and improve the quality of life of all who live in regional NSW. 

I was disappointed to see the Deputy Premier reject this idea.

Instead, he thinks we should invest only 30 per cent of the proceeds into our regions, giving Sydney once again more than the lion’s share.

Throughout its history the Snowy Hydro has been a great example of the wealth creation capacity of regional infrastructure.

As it enters its next chapter, under complete ownership by the Australian Government, it is only fair that the benefits are re-invested back in our regions to secure their future.

Luke Foley, Leader of NSW Labor.

I am disappointed with the Leeton preschool Management Committee’s recent decision to make an early childhood teacher redundant.

This leaves only two of the three preschool rooms with a qualified teacher.

Leeton preschool is approved to have 60 children per day and has previously employed three early childhood teachers to meet the minimum staffing requirements.

However, the recent decision of the preschool Management Committee to operate at 59 children per day means that now only two early childhood teachers need to be employed to meet the minimum requirements.

Unfortunately this means that all of the children in the three-year- old room do not have a qualified teacher in their room.

It is important for children to have an early childhood teacher as they have a better understanding of child development and are more equipped to lead activities that help children to learn.

Parents have been advised that due to a nation wide shortage of early childhood teachers the preschool Management Committee may not be able to recruit a qualified teacher for the three-year-old room.

This is unacceptable as they have just made a suitably qualified early childhood teacher redundant.

I have written a letter of complaint to the preschool Management Committee at president.leetonpreschool@gmail.com and urge other concerned parents to do the same.

Caitelin Milne, Current Leeton Preschool parent and Director of Leeton Preschool.