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AUSTRALIA today has in excess of 1.1 million people unemployed and a further 1.2 million underemployed as survey company Roy Morgan Research has noted, which in reality means a great deal of poverty exists within Australia.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ unemployment figure has become redundant, as it leaves out a huge amount of unemployed people, and the federal government have just ignored around half of the real unemployed.

Poverty is rife in Australia yet the LNP don’t even display the morality of a rodent towards it. Selfinterest is their major policy as can be seen with their current energy policy. The coal industry donate to the LNP and so they look after their mates in the coal industry. This is not acceptable to the majority of Australians who want Australia to convert to renewable energy ASAP.

SHAUN NEWMAN, TOWNSVILLE

If the new generation rolling stock derails while shunting and not undergoing tests, heaven help us what might happen when trains hit 80km/h! (GCB 20/10). Oh well, with Transport Minister Jackie Trad in the driver’s seat, who needs to be concerned? After all, Labor can do anything, including making a mess of one project after another. If people aren’t railing against this government by now, I cannot imagine what it would take.

KEN JOHNSTON, ROCHEDALE SOUTH

HAVING to access the M1 in either direction for the Games will be a total farce. The current volume of traffic, combined with a system unable to cope; add in accidents & idiots who have no idea how to merge, will mean that getting anywhere, regardless, will be laughable and embarrassing.

SANDY, THE SANCTUARY

THE past greatest treasurer in the world, Wayne Swan has the audacity to criticise BHP about pay bonuses.

BHP has an ongoing $1.1 billion tax dispute with the ATO that has not been settled and to accuse BHP of tax evasion is simply rubbish.

As the late Kerry Packer famously and correctly stated, why should he pay any more tax than he is required to so that great brains of politicians can waste it on stupid economic decisions.

CEO bonuses are usually based on performance except for government, public service and taxpayerfunded enterprises where they are given no matter how they perform. If performance and outcomes were the criteria for Mr Swan’s generous salary and perks, then he would have to pay back the Australian taxpayer for the rest of his life.

DAVID CHAN, GOLD COAST

HOW could a Gold Coast Judge allow a man to walk free who glassed another man three times in the throat, (GCB 20/10) simply because his barrister claimed he might not cope in prison. It is absolutely outrageous.

The public are fed up reading about these hideous cases where criminals are protected by the courts and the innocent victims left to suffer.

KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS