Two recent weekend events have once again proved very popular, and congratulations are passed on to all those people who were involved in the Brass Celebration weekend, and also the Orange expo. 

Both events were reminders of some of the special features of life in our city.

PS: At a recent U3A “Lively Discussion Group” session, the topic was Australia’s asylum seeker policy and the Manus Island detention centre. 

As expected, there were many different points of view, and the only real agreement was that detainees needed to be processed as quickly as possible. 

However, it’s worth noting that not one person has been processed on Manus Island since it reopened in November 2012. Not one!

Keith Curry, 

Orange