On other matters

To Don Earlville and Pterodactyl your support for Labor is duly noted and it’s obvious you never leave Cairns. Sunday on the range with tourists is a nightmare. David, Holloways Beach Clean coal is a bit like healthy cigarettes. It doesn’t exist. Too bad that vested interests, rather than the welfare of future generations, are dictating policy. Earl, Cairns How can ziplines featuring as the major drawcard at an “indigenous tourism park” (CP ,10/10) be regarded as anything other than blatant cultural appropriation? Miss T, Tolga Flu cases down by over 40,000 in Qld alone - an 80 per cent reduction on last year. Is this due to the vaccination advertising campaign? If so, it proves that vaccinations work. Everyone is a winner here, employees, employers and the medical staff not being overloaded in an already stressed industry. Beth, Kanimbla It’s logically false to dismiss a contractor’s expertise as substandard solely on the basis of not having certification from a government commission (editorial CP,10/10). Such commissions work to protect established players because experience in jumping through bureaucratic hoops becomes essential. That experience doesn’t guarantee current expertise in the given field. Scotty, Gordonvale Healthy Reef is best for business (CP, 10/10) Stephanie Russo, why is the National Bank still investing in fossil fuel? Latest IPCC report says if we exceed 1.5C global warming 90 per cent of our Reef will die. Time to put your money where your mouth is. Since 2008 the big four banks have invested $70 billion in dirty fossil fuel projects. JP, Smithfield Re: Malcolm Bell’s letter on recycling that SA hasn’t had a litter problem for decades due to refunds on bottles, cans, etc. Would love to see Queensland and other states do the same. I was recently on a road trip in WA, and every time I stopped to photograph or admire the wildflowers, I was shocked by the amount of bottles, cans and other litter thrown onto roadsides. Pam, Bayview Heights On the Roebuck Bay’s grounding on Henry Reef (CP, 10/10). It’s been revealed on tech news sites that certain electronics supplied by China-based manufacturers were fitted with a tiny additional chip that allows access by Chinese military hackers. It’s been suggested that the first experimental hacks induced recent US warship collisions. Let’s hope all our defence electronics are being forensically examined. Mic, Cairns If the LNP think the answer to Australia’s excessive immigration intake which is overloading capital city infrastructure is to dump immigrants out in the bush where infrastructure is even worse they are even dumber than we thought (CP, 10/10). Just cut immigration and let the housing Ponzi scheme collapse. It’s a bubble that is long overdue to pop anyway. Woz, Parramatta Park