On other matters

Australia’s financial situation. As an Australian I’m worried how we are going to continue to fund our welfare system. We seem to have more people with their hands out for funding but a reduced

They are not only useless, but are also myopic, suffer from tunnel vision and are disrespectful to our men and women in our armed forces.

The lame apology from Adam Bandt is tantamount of hitting somebody on the head with a cricket bat and then saying: “I’m sorry.”

Would that take the inflicted pain away? No, it wouldn’t. The Greens have never done anything worthwhile to this country, to my knowledge.

All they are known for is being an arm of the ALP and handing them preferences at election time. Werner Schmidlin, Yorkeys Knob amount of taxpayers to fund it all. The losers will be health, education and pensions. Worried, White Rock Local fuel: Why is it that Puma Woree in front of City Waters apartments never gets a mention, yet is consistently cheaper than most in town? The price there has not changed in months. ULP91, Cairns Where have manners gone? men wearing hats indoors at the dining table and in parliament as seen on TV. When I was young I would get a clip under the ear if I wore a hat inside. Spridge, Yorkeys Knob I still don’t understand what happened. Fifty years ago one person earned a wage, paid taxes and raised a family. We ran a nation, a state and a council. All education, utilities and health covered. A national debt in hand. Look at us now. Somewhere we got lost. George, Edge Hill I noticed an Adani protester driving a vehicle weighing more than one tonne. I wondered if the protester knows that it takes 345kg of coal to make one tonne of steel from iron ore. Does than mean no coal, no steel? Now that’s going to be an interesting future for the world. Reader, Cairns Tailgating is illegal regardless of the speed. Craig, Manunda