The Saint; Experts in a year of living dangerously

Everyone's an expert, from self righteous sections of the media to political opponents to social media chatterers to the rabble on the streets. Our leaders are operating on the best professional advice and within limited resources and the ceaseless intrusion by they-who-know- better doesn't help in a gloomy situation.

Case in point Anthony Albanese and faithful sidekick Jim Cameron and media mouth Alan Jones who sound like a broken record. It's a classic damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.

SLIM pickings for traffic cops on our roads at present with traffic down to a trickle. But the mercenary now-unmarked mobile speed cameras are doing their bit for NSW revenue.

A local correspondent this week copped a $90 fine for just three kilometres over the speed limit.

That's not road safety, it's highway robbery. No wonder NSW Labor is pushing to abolish a system it rightly says is just a cynical cash grab.

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But you can't argue with the need for what appears to be red light cameras newly installed at Dunns Corner. Too many motorists, particularly semi trailers, push their luck there on a daily basis.

YOU'D have to go back a long way to recall a more unpleasant day than what we experienced on Sunday.

Freezing gale force winds, scattered snowfalls and a midday reading on the Mort Street weather station of zero; zilch, nought, nothing - a full 11 degrees below the late July average.

Sydney had its coldest July night in 20 years but sub tropical by our standards. Deadly weather for our homeless.

EVERYONE in a lather of excitement about the imminent Council election has been let down again.

The election, already delayed by a year, was due in September but is now deferred again, this time to December. All due to that pesky pandemic.

Our present Councillors will be due for long service leave.

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