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three years out of the last 34 years and in that three years the LNP had to try and get our state’s credit rating back from bronze to gold rating. Lost by Labor. With the money we paid in interest because of that lost credit rating we could have built roads hospitals and schools.

I believe that we all are aware that our state government has overreacte­d on border control and as a result our local businesses from small to large,

1900 especially our tourist operators, have been treated with contempt, all to show that SEQ controls us in FNQ.

Robert, Earlville

Really, Rex of Edmonton (CP, 17/10) “too many trucks”? Almost everything Bill Ponsford (right) and Don you Bradman use came leave to you the by field truck. after Railways their record partnershi­p in 1934; were (inset) killed by Ponsford an inefficien­t at the unionised crease. workforce. There would be fewer den’s fatalities five on Cricketers the Bruce of Hwy the Year if it were in 1935. a proper He settled multilane down highway to raise and his drivers sons and to were work regularly as a clerk tested in the on administra­tion their abilities. of Miner, the Kelso Melbourne Cricket Club, having left his newspaper job in 1932 (despite It’s Keith unseasonab­ly Murdoch cold personally on the Tablelands visiting for Ponsford’s mid-October. home Is to this ask the him “climate to stay on). change” He retired we hear from so much his about? clerical Doesn’t job in seem 1969, worth was honoured spending billions with an on. MBE in Wendy, 1981, and Kairi died in a nursing home in 1991.

an average of 94.83, second only Richard to Bradman. Marles (WP, 17/10), I believe you’ve But got the it all Bodyline wrong. Yes experience this had pandemic been bad for has Ponsford. presented It convinced us with a big him re-imagining cricket had become but it’s not “too about serious” child and a care “not or a game even any aged more care, but it’s a about battle”. appreciati­ng He announced the farmers his retirement and our own at the manufactur­ing end of 1934, during businesses. a testimonia­l If both match those for him sectors and Bill are Woodfull. strong and To have cap a brilliant enough career workers he was we named will recover one of Wisagainst sooner. Young people need to get off their mum’s couch and go bush and do a hard day’s work — believe me it won’t kill you and will reduce Centrelink by millions each week.

Beth, Kanimbla

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