The Gold Coast Bulletin

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ON A recent Sunday any enjoyment of flying was jettisoned forever at the barn masqueradi­ng as the Gold Coast Airport.

With the biggest show on earth coming ever closer to the Gold Coast one can only hope those visiting have a smoother time than we did on that recent Sunday.

D.J. FRASER

MEDIA reporting more that 100 motorists a month are having their licences cancelled permanentl­y due to health concerns – these are oldies who have had a perfect driving record.

Why are high range drink-drug drivers licences not being cancelled permanentl­y?

We don’t see oldies hooning, tailgating and road raging like these booze and drug fuelled idiots.

KEN WADE

CONGRATULA­TIONS to Rick Flori for continuing his stand against corruption in the ALP run police service by moving on to represent the public’s views.

The election of Trump heralded a change in the how people view politics, now in New Zealand a minor party will have the balance of power in their Parliament.

With a looming election in Queensland, the ALP and LNP are struggling to find answers to minor party candidates and independen­ts who are confirming the views of the voters. The Gold Coast has just become a very interestin­g situation in the way Queensland will be shaped with Mr Flori facing the fence sitter from the LNP, One Nation’s Brenden Ball facing the LNP’s fly-in political golden boy, and myself facing two other career politician­s from the ALP and LNP who have no life experience.

Watch this space, Queensland.

RON NIGHTINGAL­E

LEADING space and aeronautic engineer Aude Vignelles must be dreaming about Australia’s ability to enter into the satellite and space industry.

Many other countries have achieved awe-inspiring results from spectacula­r engineerin­g marvels such as reclaiming one of the world’s busiest airport from the ocean or bringing water and cities into the driest desert.

Australia, meanwhile, has been stuck in a rut of small-minded thinking, unexplaina­ble social and environmen­tal ideology and indigenous and minority rights.

Australia would have trouble building rafts let alone submarines.

The uproar andnegativ­e criticisms and doubt against a fast rail covering our large distances, linking our cities with cheaper and more efficient transport is only one of the prime examples of this mentality embedded in this society.

Australian­s’ legendary ingenuity novel thinkingan­d brilliant aspiration­s have greatly declined.

They have been consciousl­y obstructed over the years by our political leaders hell bent on dumbing down Australia and promoting a one-class mediocre society.

Too late, Ms Vignelles! How about more female, indigenous or genderless representa­tions in our non-existent space industry?

DAVID CHAN

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