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.
THE $2.1 billion cut in funding for higher education by the Treasurer Morrison is disappointing.
According to OECD figures, we rate 32nd out of 37 developed countries in terms of our expenditure on higher education.
As one of the world’s richest countries, this is pathetic. It reflects Joe Hockey’s 2014 statement when he said: “We’ll find any way we can to take money out of universities.” RAY ARMSTRONG
ALL of these articles in newspapers regarding this crippling ice scourge killing our young will not make a lick of difference.
Why? Because most young people don’t listen and don’t read newspapers. Time for another approach, for instance, public debates and make it compulsory for the young to attend. FATHER BOB
PEOPLE clearly should not use illegal drugs. But to say we should not help those who do is absurd.
Imagine during schoolies if hundreds where left lying on the streets nightly unattended and the police stood around laughing. I think the word is compassion. ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE
I AM a lifelong resident of the Gold Coast and remember the littoral rainforest at Narrowneck from my childhood in the 1940s.
There is so little of nature left along our coast, it is unbelievably wanton to let any of it to be lost to the crass commercial interests of Surfers Paradise SLSC.
It is clear this is not about saving lives as there is already a patrol tower in the area.
Council should expand and regenerate the littoral rainforest along the coastal strip.
Please protect this little bit of our environment which reminds us of what it was like before it became the Gold Coast. BETH HALL, CURRUMBIN WATERS
BITCOIN is simply another form of gambling. A Bitcoin doesn’t exist. It has no intrinsic value.
It’s simply some data stored on computers. Yet millions now risk huge sums speculating in it.
A single Bitcoin has soared from around a dollar to over $22,000 recently. And millions of dollars have already been stolen by hackers.
Just like pyramid schemes, Bitcoin will continue to rise in value while there are people prepared to join the scramble.
When enough realise they’ve invested in absolutely nothing, the rush to recover what money they can will begin. That’s when we’ll see the true value of Bitcoin. IAN TIMMINS, MERMAID BEACH
MANN’S cartoon (GCB, 18/12) was spot on re young joy riders in stolen cars racing up and down our highways and inviting police to chase them for the thrills of a pursuit.
Under this weak Palaszczuk Government, police are told to call off such pursuits in case the little darlings crash and hurt themselves.
Annastacia needs to be told the public are fed up with all this.
Since she became Premier, young crime has gone out of control, they have been given too many rights in the homes, on the streets and in the courts. KEN WADE, TWEED HEADS