On other matters

Surprising to see a few ungrateful Daintree businesses complaining about a mandatory safety inspection for the ferry. The Council set up an alternative crossing procedure for the five days but seems that isn’t enough for the whingers. Anon, Cairns At last Letters to the Editor (WP, 3/2) given prominence again. Fingers crossed for a whole page soon. Fran. Woree The ABC’s ill-gotten document cache includes papers from the Gillard years. What’s the bet they avoid any negative mention of their favourite ever PM? Woz, Parramatta Park Re: sugar tax. The easy solution is to get the big companies to cut out sugar in drinks. There is other safe organic options. Mick, Cairns I am a very proud indigenous person in my sixties. I knew what my parents went through growing up as kids in the bush. Our family was affected by the stolen generation. lived under the white/black policy and yet we still proudly celebrate our culture and heritage with NAIDOC week in July. We proudly celebrate being Aussies on Australia day in January. We can’t right the wrong of the past but we can move forward. Don’t change Australia day. D, Mission Beach Re: Learn To Swim (WP, 3/3). Qld Premier again demonstrates she is out of touch with the people. An audit of schools? A voucher scheme? Premier listen to the people, make free swimming lessons available to all primary children like we had 30 years ago. Don. Earlville RE: Casino crossing. Closing the traffic lanes will only cause more traffic holdups. Pedestrians need to put away their devices,and use their eyes for watching their surroundings. Spud, Cairns Cape Town South Africa 70 days from having no water after three years of no rain is an awful situation. Shane, Kanimbla I can’t believe Malcolm Turnbull’s reaction to Bill Shorten’s proposal to cap private health insurance premiums to 2 per cent is to say “actually this year’s rise wasn’t that bad”. Talk about Nero playing the fiddle while the rest of Rome is burning. Seb, Cairns Bill Shorten has no credibility to call out the health insurance companies on price rises after being a senior cabinet member of the Gillard government that axed tax rebates on out-of-pocket health costs. Reader, Cairns