NEW ADDRESS FOR LETTERS

The Gold Coast Bulletin is introducing a new email address for Letters to the Editor. From now on, please send your letters to letters@goldcoast.com.au. Please also include your name and suburb at the bottom of your letter.

QUEENSLANDERS can blame themselves for the M1 debacle remaining a “highway to hell” up to the Commonwealth Games by having voted back the inefficient Palaszczuk Labor Government.

They’ve known about the issues involved yet what has Labor done? Stirling Hinchcliffe and then Labor’s “saviour” Jackie Trad failed to initiate any steps to counter this disastrous scenario.

Without drastic extra transport measures to get spectators to the Gold Coast, the resulting traffic jam will hardly endear itself to the promotion of Southeast Queensland tourism. KEN JOHNSTON

I AM fuming about a letter by an ex-Vietnam fruit loop (Your Views,

14/11), who I don’t know, who has levelled scurrilous nonsense against me.

For the record, my time there was spent at Task Force Headquarters

Nui Dat in charge of 62.5kva generators. They were powering transmitters communicating back to Australia. D.J. FRASER, CURRUMBIN

LIKE Geoff (Your Views, 9/12) I too have been continually getting unwonted mail from Bitcoin daily even though I have unsubscribed many times over.

Any hints of how to get rid of them permanently? COLLEEN KITTO, COOMBABAH

I’M APPALLED at Councillor Dawn Crichlow’s suggestion of feeding nuisance ibis “minced meat

with cayenne pepper in it” (GCB, 12/12). While I empathise with restaurants dealing with ibis, pigeons and gulls snatching leftovers from tables, the councillor is advocating animal cruelty. In fact if she were to persist I suspect she’d find herself in hot water with the RSPCA.

There’s conjecture as to whether birds experience the heat of chilli the way we do. Even if they can’t taste spice all vets I’ve asked are of the view that if a bird were to ingest a lot of cayenne it could end up with serious gastric inflammation.

Deterring birds is one thing; torturing them is something else. Nor would the bird have any way of

knowing what caused its distress. Was it the mince it ate, or that leftover sandwich by a picnic table, or the bugs it dug out of a garden?

Ibis and many other species are opportunistic. If there’s unguarded food to be had then they’ll grab it.

In areas like central Surfers catching and relocating offending ibis and gulls is not an option because there is too many of them. However the idea of dedicated bird shoo-ers is a good one. In my view nuisance birds have the potential to affect tourism therefore council should help restaurants and employ people to drive off birds in places where they’re a problem. ROWLEY GOONAN, WILD BIRD RESCUES GOLD COAST

GOOD on you mayor Tom Tate for getting behind a referendum on daylight savings. Let’s make it happen Queensland. SHAZA RAY, REEDY CREEK