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.

AS a volunteer for the Commonwealth Games, I have every intention of respecting people arriving to watch or participate in the Games in April.

I certainly respect those who have a different gender. However, I will not be trying to address people in a neutral tone. I love the words gidday, woman, man, partner and will use them.

I also do not feel the need to psyche volunteers up (as has happened), as those who have volunteered will already be excited about representing our country.

In a world where political correctness has gone mad, I will go back to basics I used to follow in my working days, and use basic manners and eagerness to help anyone.

REX HUNTLEY, PALM BEACH

I NOTE Mary Cassar’s comments re two-hour parking from Labrador to TSS.

Well welcome to my world. Here on Chevron Island the whole island is two hours on weekdays between 9am-5pm and the blue bombers are vicious – heaven help a tradie who needs to be longer than two hours.

Again, it is a revenue-raising event. No one gets a say, only the councillors – and you should be asking why did they approve it? Normally Dawn would be all over this. What is her view?

Employers in the area are going to have a tough time getting employees and the residents will need to be getting residents’ parking passes otherwise they will be booked – at $75 a pop.

L DELANEY

SENSITIVITIES are selective when it comes to “ladies/gents” offensives but no politically correct problem with sanctioned carnage of our popular wildlife habitat.

Directives for desecration of nests and refuges of ground dwelling mammals and reptiles, amphibians to be relocated or euthanised, trapping of birds to stop them returning

to trees to be felled in the name of progress for a carpark.

Glad our priorities are right.

CHRIS MAGILL, SURFERS PARADISE

AUSTRALIA Day is coming up and we will get the usual “bleeding hearts” on about how it should be a day of mourning for Aboriginals because their country was taken over by the British.

Suck it up. They (the bleeding hearts) should be ever so grateful that it was the British. Imagine how they would have been treated if the Germans or French or Japanese had occupied the land.

You “bleeding hearts” really have more reason to celebrate.

BOB HOWDEN, BROADBEACH

MAYOR Tom Tate and company praise the millions and millions of dollars each major event brings to the Gold Coast economy.

Most of these major events, if not all, are subsidised with ratepayers’ money. If that is the case, who is benefiting from all this financial windfall?

There are hundreds of ratepayers who cannot pay their rates, many homeless people and we have the highest rates in the country.

I think it is time, and not unreasonable, that those who are responsible of investing ratepayers’ money in major events explain how this windfall is fairly distributed within the community.

GEORGE SAALMANN, BROADBEACH

WHILE cyclists continually break road rules such as running red lights they won’t get respect from car drivers.

Having to pass them continually or continually getting held up because of this is extremely frustrating. Please show some common sense because you are the ones who will get hurt.

ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE