On dairy farmers
Will it all end for our dairy farmers? Or will our government finally step in and change the rules? As your story says, if the farmers go broke they take the little towns with them, that means more unemployment and a bigger drain on the taxpayers, and that makes no sense. Beth, Kanimbla (CP, 09/12). Those dairy farmers and rural people have been voting for the likes of Warren Entsch and the LNP all their lives, only to be thrown on the scrap heap. Loyalty brushed aside for what, a skewed playing field that’s what. Where big companies dictate the terms.
Retiree, CBD currents? I’d be annoyed to know I could have spent my time more productively. One-tooth Wally, Kamerunga
On there possibly being a clash of events at Barlow Park between the Pride and rugby union at the end of February. Why don’t rugby union use their brains and schedule their game on the Sunday? That way everybody’s happy?
Scottie, Bayview Heights
Re: Queensland’s Olympic bid (CP, 09/12). More jobs sounds good until you realise they’re short-term jobs paid for by long-term debt.
Woz, Parramatta Park
Once Christmas was families getting together and immersing themselves in the celebration of the birth of Christ. That is the true gift of the Christmas (Christ mass) season. Now it is about who can accumulate the biggest debt by believing the advertising from purely commercial interests that Christmas gift giving is bigger and more expensive is better. David, Holloways Beach
It would be fair to say that TTNQ is now a far-left organisation. Their “schoolies to the Reef” plan is another example of redistributing other people’s wealth by force of law. Here’s a better idea, TTNQ. Let the schoolies and their parents save up or fundraise their own trips to the Reef.
Joanne, Manunda
Labor’s Terri Butler is right (CP, 09/12) but only by coincidence. Not only are renewables jobs paid far less than mining jobs, they’re not sustainable because renewables in their current form cannot replace coal power. The renewables fervour will pass like all fads do.
Richard, Brinsmead
Record-breaking heat. For the juicy pick-me-up eat watermelon on a hot day.
Janelle, Woree
Record-breaking heat. Ha, ha, ha. We packed away the winter woollies on Saturday morning and had to drag them out again on Monday morning. Must be Gore-bull warming.
Higgs, Tolga
If the Cairns Taipans don’t sign their three imports up now, like all the commenters are saying, they will be playing for the big money teams next year. David the Perth Wildcats fan, Woree