Deeply offensive act by Council

Thank you so much for all your coverage last month of the Anzac Day celebrations and services around the Central Coast.

This is a very important event in our national calendar and it is good to see a print newspaper reporting on it so well and so positively.

I was so disappointed to see that the Navy Veterans Memorial at Copacabana placed there for Anzac Day was vandalised but so pleased that it was cleaned up for the Anzac Day RSL service.

It was an even greater disappointment for me to see that this very classy looking memorial provided by Roque Hammal and the Navy Veterans was slapped with a big fluoro orange sticker for removal the day immediately after Anzac Day.

While I don’t know all the background and details for the reasons for this I found the fluoro sticker from Central

Coast Council deeply offensive to those of us who have lost relatives or friends at sea or overseas.

Cenotaphs and memorials like this one take the place of the graves and places we can’t visit to remember our loved ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

I believe that our local government could have been more sensitive, respectful and discreet and simply asked in private for the memorial to be removed rather than have that ugly sticker placed disrespectfully on the memorial for all to see.

Grace and respect from our

Changing our constitution is a BIG deal and should be brought to the Australian public with intelligent reasoning, not emotive narrative—appealing to the public’s emotions and telling us we need to vote yes to demonstrate our virtue—or coercion from corporations and sporting bodies.

It’s OK to vote NO. We need action from the government for our Aboriginal people, not a Voice.

Email, May 24 Linda Telisman, Umina local council is what I would like to see rather than heavyhanded over governance. Ignorant and foolish vandals are one thing but our Central Coast Council could do better.

Email, May 26 Stephanie Hall, Copacabana