LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ROUNDABOUTS
BRIAN Sayers (TC, 23/08), I do not bulldoze through roundabouts, as I am as frightened as you are when going through them.
I always slow down to 20km/h when approaching them and always give way to traffic on the roundabout. I always indicate left when I exit (I am one of the few people in Toowoomba who will bother doing this).
Now I am over 50 I have never in my lifetime had a traffic infringement notice issued to me, and have had an open licence for more than 30 years.
So don’t say I throw stones in glasshouses. DAVE FREDERICKS, Toowoomba
POMS
A POM could be of any race and religion. It is not a racist comment.
Even on the first fleet we had Poms of a mixture of races and religious beliefs. At that time even the Scots, Welsh and Irish were all part of the UK.
Now at least those of Irish descent can shed the Pom description, although it seems Brexit is more about English control of Northern Ireland than anything else.
What would we call an English cricketer of Indian or African descent?
The UK once upon a time championed multicultural trade and freedom of movement within the British Empire; they even forced China to do business with them.
It seems strange to me that we now don’t like all of that “history and tradition” that helped shape Australia. JOHN FRIEND, Toowoomba
NEW GOVERNMENT
I AM literally disgusted with our clowns we call politicians.
A bus driver told me a lunatic is one person, a “politic” is many of them and she is correct. What happened to stability in our government? It seems both parties, the ALP and LNP, are as bad as each other.
I would like to see the GovernorGeneral rule for a while until a general election can be organised. Best thing would be to sack the Lower House and put in all new parties and all new people. We need all new people in our government.
STEPHEN BOYCE, Booval
STOP ABORTIONS
I RECALL the period of the “same-sex marriage” campaign and the promotion, support and advertising given to this controversial and overwhelmingly successful proposal and plebiscite by many of our national sporting bodies such as Cricket Australia, NFL, AFL, rugby union and soccer, along with many major business organisations including Qantas etc.
I would now invite these same Australian “heavyweights” to support the move to defeat the proposal by the Queensland ALP Government to legalise the killing of unborn children (abortion) for any or no reason up to 22 weeks’ gestation and at the approval of two doctors to full-term development – since when did the study of medicine at university grant a person the right/authority to approve the killing of another human being?
Surely these Australian sporting and commercial bodies will be interested in this invitation, given that passage of this legislation by Palaszczuk, Trad, Miles et al would result in the deaths of many potential participants and employees in their respective organisations – maybe even champions and CEOs – who as a consequence of their being aborted would never see the light of day, let alone the opportunity to participate, work and develop to their full adult potential.
PAUL LUCAS, Toowoomba
ROAD FALL
LAST Friday morning (17/08), I was crossing the road in Alderley St just east of Ruthven St and when I stepped down over the gutter, my left leg collapsed and I fell face first onto the road.
A man from the opposite side of the road raced across and rescued me. I was very lucky I wasn’t run over.
He brought me home and took my wife back to the car so she could bring it home.
I am very sorry I didn’t get the person’s name who rescued me.
My face was covered in blood so I have a lot of stitches in my head but I was very lucky I didn’t break any bones.
To that person who saved my life, I cannot thank him enough.
KEVIN CRANDELL, Toowoomba