The Cairns Post

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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

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