On other matters

Build as many prisons and Petford centres as you want, not much will change. Governments need to stop building entertainment shrines to themselves and start building roads, railway lines, dams and power stations, even a billion dollar tobacco industry, that when stupidly shut down, did nothing to prevent humans smoking.

Rex, Edmonton

The Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantine experiment (CP, 20/02) seems to have shown that the virus can travel through airconditioning systems. What a great time to be an outdoors worker. Ric, Brinsmead

What makes tourist businesses think any government is obliged to help them? It’s a business with risks. It’s you as the owner to take responsibility and suck it up. Richard, Palm Cove

Smithfield bypass. Let’s hope the Premier physically visits the intersection where the bypass intersects with the western arterial so she can see only an overpass will solve the traffic problem. Even Mr Crawford in today’s Post says “the bypass will most likely funnel a lot of extra traffic on to the western arterial”.

Cal, Kewarra Beach

Peta Credlin. Your editorial highlights precisely how out of touch the legal system is and why the silent majority are so frustrated with many of the decisions handed down by our courts and seeing as the taxpayers are usually funding these challenges to our laws the frustration is reaching boiling point.

Beth, Kanimbla

As if the $100m sports rorts were not bad enough, half of the drought grants also went to ineligible councils. Now the media is reporting that $140m of the $150m earmarked for rural development went to big city marginal Liberal electorates. If I misused Commonwealth funds I would be jailed. Where is ICAC?

M.G.B., Kanimbla Heights