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FURTHER to the article (GCB, 16/9) about councillors considering banning electric scooters.
Banning the hire of them is a no-brainer. As an elderly resident of Surfers Paradise, I fear for my safety on the narrow footpaths where young tourists (no age limit, no licence needed) swerve recklessy through clusters of pedestrians.
I have engaged with John-Paul Langbroek MP, the GCCC and police on this issue. The council says it is a police matter; police say it is a council matter.
I support Cr Baildon who is tired of the bureaucratic and legal hideand-seek involved in getting these electric scooters off our footpaths.
The government is responsible for the safety of citizens. It’s not the time for a figurative shrug-of-the-shoulder excuse.
JOHN WOMERSLEY, SURFERS PARADISE
IT WAS par for the course that all the Cowboys penalties that could have gone either way went Parramatta’s way on Saturday.
And, of course, the penalties that applied to the Cowboys were let go when Parramatta did the same thing minutes later.
The NSWRL can’t cop the fact the boys from the bush have trampled over another Sydney team, they despise the North Queensland Cowboys.
The NSW biased commentators wrote them off before the game begins then slowly their mouths closed as the Cowboys got on top, which has been a great effort considering they have lost their two best players in Johnathan Thurston and Matt Scott.
The Cowboys won the Grand Final in 2015 so every effort will be made by the last Sydney team in the competition and their auxiliary on-field supporters to make sure the Cowboys don’t reach those dizzy heights again.
SHAUN NEWMAN
I READ a Facebook post by my youngest son which labeled all supporters of the “No” campaign in the same-sex marriage debate as being unintelligent and heartless.
I was saddened by his unwillingness to ask some simple questions in this debate.
I sit firmly in the “No” camp and apply the principle that “if you don’t know, vote no”.
We are casting a vote on a very important societal institution with understanding its wider ramifications. Based on what has happened in other countries, we need to know what lies ahead before we plunge into the abyss.
Many members of the “Yes” campaign seem to be charging blindly down the rabbit hole without thinking about what is at stake.
Freedom of speech, belief and conscience along with radical changes to the education of our children and the removal of parental rights should make every Australian think seriously.
I say to my son, I do have a brain and heart and the courage to speak out. What is at stake is so important that it needs more than blind faith, it requires the willingness and openness to question.
It requires the passion to stand for what is best for your family and the generations to come.
MICHAEL QUILTY