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I hope those that are fortunate enough to live in social housing, but then destroy it in any shape or form, should be off the housing list forever. We taxpayers pay for the repairs and maintenance of these. Give the housing to those genuinely in need, and if they burn their bridges, they’re out ... forever?
KS Tolga
Joe Hildebrand is amazing in that he can be completely correct and utterly wrong in a single column (CP, 3/10). Yes, Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe is a disrespectful disgrace, but no, the so-called “Voice” is not “moderate, sensible and pragmatic”. While little can be done about Thorpe until her term expires, all sensible Australians should be rejecting the “Voice” because it is inherently and definitionally racist, and we are not a racist country regardless of the claptrap that miseducated activists spout.
Michelle, Stratford
The bottom line with the youth crime problem is that Annastacia changed the breach of bail laws so it’s not an offence to breach bail. Before then if you were on bail and you committed another crime you got locked up. The young crims have realised that they won’t be punished so why would they stop? The level of crime is progressively getting worse and will not get any better until we change the law back to what it was before the ALP caused this avalanche of youth crime.
Robbo, Gordonvale
Regarding kangaroo meat sales, the vegans in the RSPCA’s ear have obviously never worked with a professional roo shooter. I have. The roo is taken out with a single shot to the head. Death is instant. They don’t know what hit them. Roos breed out of control because humans changed the landscape, first with firestick farming and then with grazing. If roos aren’t culled they’ll eat themselves, and our meat animals, out of a food supply. Starving is a far worse way to die than being shot in the head.
Travis, Redlynch
Danny O’Shane (CP, 3/10). Using the definition you have applied to Warren Mundine, Pat O’Shane is not an indigenous leader either, as she too stood for election and was rejected by the community. Phil, Kewarra Beach
Only earlier in the week the Cairns Post described the bashing as “summary justice”, now after seeing the footage its become a “brutal revenge bashing”. Just what is the difference between summary justice and vigilante action?
Mark, Edmonton
We are a tourist town aren’t we? Walking through the CBD on Monday on a public holiday and virtually nothing is open. It’s more like a ghost town. What options are there for southern tourists looking for somewhere to eat/drink when on holidays?
Atticus, Cairns
Re: NRL Grand Final. Good game but Eels should not be sad they made it to the grand finals. Parramatta you beat every other team to get to the finals. It’s all good.
Pamela, Cairns
Can the Cairns council do something about homeless living in Centenary Park and lighting fires around front BBQ area. Place turning into squalor. Lot, Cairns
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have an extra hour of daylight in the evening in the tropical Far North where families can make use of the cooler part of the day?
Brenda, Manoora
Instead of daylight savings. Make work days longer and bring in split shifts (6am to 1pm, 12 noon to 6pm). No lunch break only “smoko”. Open early for NZ and open later for WA. More workers. More tax. Someone home before school and after.
Ray, Ravenshoe
1190 England’s King Richard I (the Lion-Heart), on his way to Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, captures Sicily’s key city of Messina after disputes with local people.
1535 The first complete English Bible, the work of Myles Coverdale, comes off the press either in Zurich (Switzerland) or Cologne (Germany).
1669 Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn dies in Amsterdam at 63, leaving the world 600 paintings, 1500 drawings and 350 etchings.
1853 Turkey declares war on Russia, starting the Crimean War.
1895 Horace Rawlins, 19, receives $150 as the winner of the inaugural US Open golf championship.
1910 Revolution begins in Portugal, the day after a madman murders a republican leader. King Manuel II flees to England.
1913 Large crowds line Sydney Harbour to welcome the country’s first battle cruiser, HMAS Australia, arriving from Britain where it was built.
1919 The Sentimental Bloke, director Raymond Longford’s film version of a poem by C.J. Dennis, premieres in Melbourne. It is later hailed as one of Australia’s greatest movies (pictured).
1970 American singer Janis Joplin, who was known for her uninhibited musical style, dies of an accidental overdose of heroin.
1993 Rebel communist MPs, surrounded by tanks, surrender Moscow’s parliament building to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. At least 300 people had been killed in a rising after Yeltsin dissolved parliament.
2007 Federal environment minister Malcolm Turnbull approves a $2bn Gunns Ltd pulp mill for Tasmania’s northeast. Financial markets have since put the controversial project in doubt.