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There are drugs that save lives and there are drugs that take or wreck lives. The most costly impact on our population and society health wise and financial is alcohol and drug abuse. Either in the homes domestically or on the roads, the destroyer of lives and families.
Guardian, Cairns
On the planned bus strike on Tuesday in Cairns I’m sorry but this is a disgrace whether bus drivers deserve better conditions or not (I think they do) what makes them think it’s OK to upset the people who could defend them by screwing them over in not being able to go from a to b especially when it’s a necessity, hopefully common sense prevails and it’s prevented.
Scottie, Bayview Heights
Wrong, Mr Healy (CP, 4/12), people do not want renewables, they want cheaper electricity. You and your fellow travellers claim renewables provide cheaper electricity, so people ‘believe’ they want them. But since renewables have been part of the mix, power prices have doubled relative to incomes. If you said up front they make power more expensive nobody would want them. Greg, Kamerunga
There is an easy fix to inefficient ports. Competition. Government can legislate to allow new ports to be built (or old ones like ours to be renovated). Allow private enterprise to build them and link them to existing road and rail routes. If port workers want to hinder our national prosperity (and they have a history of doing so), just go around them. The freight companies will follow.
Mariner, Portsmith
Rights are diminishing (CP 4/12). I find Dr Tim Coyle’s comments on everything from assisted dying, marriage equality to abortion deeply disturbing. His Christian bent on issues is myopic, simplistic, and in the end cruel. Our society should provide individuals with the right to make decisions based on their personal needs. Unfortunately some in our Christian community wish to impose controls that are irrelevant to the majority. Dr Coyle is entitled to his beliefs, but not to enforcing them on others. Individuals do have ‘rights over their bodies’, if Dr Coyle doesn’t respect that, it’s a sad state, and an indictment on where our Christian community stands.
Rick, Redlynch
Tony (CP 4/12) Tim Flannery is nowhere to be seen. I could only find old repeats of his alarmist predictions which have shown how wrong he has been. Why is he receiving remuneration?
BJ, Rangeview
Hey Harold, November was also the coolest November for 21 years and in some places the coolest on record! I suppose that’s climate change too is it?
Robbo, Gordonvale