YOUR VIEWS

FOR a child safety officer to disclose the virtual full details of a partner’s whereabouts and of the children’s school and sporting clubs to a man on a DVA order is criminal (GCB, 5/9).

Mother and children are living in hell and the blame must be shouldered by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk for persisting with the inept Minister for the Prevention of Domestic Violence Shannon Fentiman. This is her latest bungle and the Premier must sack her.

Compensation for this victim should include much more than just her relocation costs.

Surely the government could at least give this mother free rent for a year. But it won’t happen because the Palaszczuk government is full of heartless people.

If the LNP can’t win the next election, then there is no hope for Queensland. KEN JOHNSTON

A LOCAL young saxophonist was recently busking in Griffith St, Coolangatta.

Standing behind him was a man I thought may have been the boy’s father. Not so, he was an official from the Gold Coast City Council who must have had little else to do.

The boy told me the official had threatened him if he continued busking (and plying his trade) and he would be fined $500.

Did the council official have any reason to ban the young musician?

Here was a talented young person, not mucking up in the community, expressing his art and perhaps inspiring others to take up a musical instrument.

I personally like to see buskers in the streets; they add a little colour along an otherwise uneventful concrete footpath.

However if the young musician had paid $300 to the council for an official audition that would have changed everything. WARREN JAMES, TWEED HEADS

GROWING up in the ’50s and ’60s I remember the postman delivering twice daily on his push bike.

Now just been told by Main Roads that a registration refund could take up to two weeks to travel from Brisbane to the Gold Coast.

Now that’s service for you. ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE

I REFER to the report regarding the Sikh kirpan (sword) being permitted to be worn on a Queensland schools’ grounds (GCB, 30/8).

What blatant hypocrisy and outright discrimination on the part of Australian politicians.

As reported in the GCB, the Queensland weapons Act 1990 states the kirpan cannot be worn on school grounds for any reason.

Australian children are forbidden to play with toy guns.

They are told not to sing Christmas carols or to use the word “God” in the playground for fear of offending other religions.

Not to mention the tearful Attorney-General George Brandis when Pauline Hanson wore a burka in Parliament to demonstrate weakness in the security.

It is time Australians stood up and said in one united voice “enough is enough” of this attack on our democracy. SHIRLEY FRENCH, ROBINA