TEXT TO THE EDITOR
Hang on – if coal (CP, 29/11) is “obsolete” and “inefficient”, why does the price of it and the demand for it keep going up? Confused, Cairns
Great column on the weird world of the woke, Tim Blair (CP, 29/11). It brings to mind this quote from George Orwell’s “1984”: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Ancient Steve, Redlynch
Wait, what? We have five million
Aussies on Centrelink (CP, 29/11) but businesses can’t get workers and we’re importing 250,000 people a year to work and the welfare class are getting a pay rise? What is wrong with us? Are these loonies trying to destroy the economy?
Marie, Aitkenvale
Here’s a novel idea. Since crime continues to get worse (CP, 29/11) under the wrist-tapping model of justice, let’s try something diametrically opposite. Let’s put everyone arrested for home invasion, car theft, and street violence on remand in prison for five years until their trials can be heard. If that results in an improvement for law-abiding citizens then we have our answer. Mark, Redlynch
Re: “Tenants in state of ‘chronic anxiety’” (CP, 29/11). Brought to you by Annastacia Palaszczuk’s state Labor government, Airbus Anthony Albanese’s federal Labor government, and Bob Manning’s Labor-like Cairns council. You get what you vote for.
Ex-ALP Voter, Cairns
Thunderstorms (CP, 29/11) are nature’s vacuum cleaners. They suck heat from the surface and spit it out way up high in the cold zone. But “climate models” don’t include them, which is why they are useless. JS, Edge Hill
Re: Ex-PM Mr Morrison the minister for everything. My question is seeing he held an alleged five ministerial positions does that entitle him to the retirement packages of the five ministers who were actually being shadow ministers while Morrisonism was in play?
Icarus, Atherton
Wasn’t it great to hear the Governor of the Reserve Bank apologising to Australia for getting it wrong regarding his statement two years ago that interest rates would not increase for “the next few years”. How much does this man get paid to ruin the lives of millions of Australians?
Sue, Cairns North
Re: Korean child deportation. If you’re born in Australia you’re Australian right? Simple enough. He stays here with his family, and we the people deport the bureaucrats who make these decisions.
Stu, Brinsmead
Daniel Andrews’ victory in Victoria last Saturday is more evidence the Liberals are in disarray. Right-wing policies are on the nose right across the country.
Roger, Woree
Dog attacks, some fatal, seem to be in the news continually. At the same time some dog owners here in Cairns believe unleashed and unrestrained dogs in public spaces is a good idea. Parks, cafes, children’s playgrounds, shops, footpaths, it’s out of control. Your dog, your responsibility.
Rick, Redlynch
The Cairns Performing Arts Centre was a year overdue for construction and now the convention centre is heading down the same path. The common denominator? The CFMEU! Funny that!
Andy, Gordonvale
Well done Tim Blair (CP, 29/11). When writing a column on a mass shooting in Colorado, you concentrate your venom on some diatribe about gender identification. There’s a bigger issue at play here. Mikey, Smithfield
1718 Swedish king Charles XII is shot in the head and dies during the siege of Fredriksten fortress, east of
Oslo Fjord, ending Sweden’s “Age of Greatness’’.
1812 The armed brig Emu, en route to Hobart with 49 female convicts, is captured by US privateer Holkar and taken to New York as a prize. The captain, Lieutenant Alex Bissett, and convicts are released at Cape Verde Island in January 1813.
1818 The oil lamp of Australia’s first lighthouse is lit at South Head. The Macquarie Lighthouse building was designed by Francis Greenway. It will be demolished in 1883.
1829
Compositors on The Australian newspaper strike over a reduction in wages owing to a currency depreciation.
1833 The brig Ann Jameson explodes and sinks while moored at King’s Wharf, Sydney, killing six.
1854 Eureka Stockade: Police checking licences are stoned; 500 miners then take a (second) oath at Bakery Hill to defend their rights and liberties.
1872 The world’s first international football match is played, with Scotland drawing 0-0 with England in Glasgow.
1914 The first unit of the Australian Flying Corps leaves Point Cook, Victoria, for service in World War I, bound for German New Guinea.
1928 Don Bradman, 20, (above) makes his Test cricket debut in Brisbane, scoring 18 and 1 as Australia lose their first Test to England.
2004 Oporto fast-food chain lifts its ban on its Hornsby store displaying a Christmas nativity scene. The chain manager admits it was overzealous in trying to avoid offence to non-Christian customers.
2007 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, who was known for his death-defying stunts, dies at the age of 69.