On other matters

Passions of Paradise (CP, 06/03) runs reef tourism boats. It’s MD says the Reef is a dynamic ecosystem. “There is no for an MP having served at least six years from 55 to 65 years.

So any MP not yet 65 who wants to benefit from the present pension scheme can resign and draw a government pension of over $100,000 a year for 10 years longer.

An elected MP approaching 55 who resigns will gain about $1 million as well as the severance premium (between $80,000 and $125,000).

Could this possibly be the main reason many are not running again? Peter Senior, Redlynch “climate change something” and always dramatic, terrifying and catastrophic.

On the Friday, my mate asked his grandson, “What’s eight times nine?”

His grandson looked bewildered and asked, “What’s that got to do with climate change?”

What is happening with our school curriculums, that the basic skills required to become a functioning adult have been displaced by hysterical ideological nonsense?

Our bureaucracies have become infested with people who rightly belong in lunatic asylums. Peter Campion, Tolga 1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radiotelephone conversation takes place, between New York City and London. 2006: Swimming champion Ian Thorpe withdraws from the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, citing illness later diagnosed as glandular fever. 2007: Five Australians, including a journalist, a Federal Police agent, an embassy staff member and an aid official, die when a Garuda Boeing 737 overshoots the runway and explodes in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2015: Australian actor Cate Blanchett (above) and her husband Andrew Upton announce they have adopted a baby girl. 2018: Energy Australia marks Women’s Day by announcing women will be paid the same as their male colleagues for doing the same job.