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it “just me” or are others absolutely appalled that children as young as five are “going online” and accessing all manner of social media sites and that there is a need for the police to attend pre-schools to warn children of the dangers of being “groomed online” etc.?
What the hell is wrong with today’s parents that their children are “online” at all at such young ages.
I think the problem would be alleviated if the parents “got offline” and spent more time actually with their children instead of leaving them to their “own devices” – pun intended.
If parents got themselves and their children away from their technology and spent that same time doing the “old-fashioned things”, it would certainly change the way children are being raised.
From personal observations people today seem unable to do the most basic things without being linked to technology and no matter where you go or what you do, people seem unable to detach themselves from this technology. Even driving a vehicle does not stop them, resulting in many, many road deaths which go reported as simply “being caused by inattention or distraction”.
No, they are “breaking the law”, plain and simple.
When you get behind the wheel of any vehicle either under the influence of a substance of any description or you decide that you simply must “text or talk” to someone, causing or being the cause of someone dying, then that should be dealt with as being manslaughter in the court system, not simply labelled as being “inattentive or distracted”. GAEL, MAUDSLAND
WE have just been watching the moguls competition at the winter Olympics which contained the TV interviews with our male and female skiers.
What an eye opener for the viewers to listen to these very unassuming young athletes who represent this country in these Olympic Games.
They speak very well as they explain that they do their best and sometimes their best is not quite good enough. They all respect the current champions in their given event and without exception they thank all the folk who have helped them to get where they are at right now. There is NO mention of sponsorships or of money earned (if they do earn money) and I would safely assume that should they slip up they will not be hurling their ski-poles into the earth in rage or throwing snowballs at the judges.
Tennis Australia should make the current team of superbrats sit and watch how REAL sportsmen and women behave in public. FRANK TEWKESBURY SOUTHPORT
ROD Watson (GCB, 9/2/18) should read the RSPCA Queensland recent press release regarding Black Swan Lake. I quote: “Numerous dubious and conflicting reports have been produced to prove that the lake is basically a pool of
chemical effluence as opposed to a rampant and viable breeding ground for native birds.
“A simple visit to the lake will show who is telling the truth.”
Birds in the hundreds, too many to count, were easily visible when I visited today and they were there by choice. CHRIS, SURFERS PARADISE WE see days and days of cricket, hours and hours of tennis, hours and hours of cycling. We even get American Football – what self respecting Australian would watch that?
Especially when our Nerangbased boxer Rohan Murdock was beating a top American fighter in four rounds putting Murdock in a position for a possible world title.
Not one TV station covered the fight. Even my namesake Wally Lewis couldn’t spare five minutes. Talk about one-eyed Aussies. WALLY LEWIS A.N.B.F
GREAT article from Paul Weston about the value of the land once Black Swan Lake is filled in.
We all knew there would be an ulterior motive to it being made into a car park and that is so Tom Tate can sell it to a developer, who can then build a highrise or hotel.
It is public land and needs to be left alone as it does not belong to the turf club.
If the council can afford to bail the show out, it can pay for rehabilitation of the lake. IAN, GOLD COAST