YOUR SAY: Wodonga village rallies around Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre

A morning tea was held in our community centre and the cheque was presented to Sally.

A big thank you to all our residents. We hope we can do equally well this coming year.

First of all, my condolences and best wishes to the family and friends of Mr Schnelle following this highly avoidable tragedy, sadly, little comfort.

Secondly, heads at the executive level of mental health services at Albury Wodonga Health must roll ... a total cleanout.

The buck stops with these executives and squarely them for nurturing a worrying culture of dangerous incompetence, slackness and general cluelessness around acute risk assessment and subsequent intervention.

I hope the coroner and the chief executive notify Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency around those involved with this disgraceful example of clinical incompetence.

Australia's population according to the scientists was to be sustainable at 22,000,000 and now we have approximately 26,000,000 and the government wants to bring in another 500,000 before 2024.

We have not enough housing, our hospitals are overloaded and people waiting for operations up to a year or more. We have people that have lost their homes due to floods and fires and are still waiting for help and hope to get a home again after one to two years. Our crime rate in Australia is out of control and the justice system cannot cope with the overload of providing the accommodation as they are also on overload. Our own homeless and poverty has been a problem not solved.

Our charity organisations have so much demand for help they are also challenged to keep up the demand. Our schools are in overload from the extra population and do not have the teachers for the demand.

Australia is a dry continent with insufficient water and soil for a large population and already there is lack of water and drought areas in Australia. Why do people come here because their countries are already over-populated and Australia is the same and the government needs to control the migration before we become a third world country.

We have been a lucky country but I fear that is sadly changing. We need to consider the future of our younger Australians as to hopefully own a home, the Australian dream.

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