CHATROOM

I can’t pay late bills over the weekend because sat/sun are not banking days. So how about these business stop ringing on the weekend. Paul. Tugun.

Morrison throws crumbs at working people to buy votes, keep your $10 and give it to the poor and unemployed and the community groups you have cut funding from. Wide awake.

Great to see young people at the Labour Day march, unions are about community and compassion, something we have all benefited from.

An additional $247 million for School Chaplaincy Program over four years. So wrong! This money could be better spent on any number of beneficial projects — state school facilities, real school social workers, health, public transport, etc. Col H.

If the dangerous work on Jewel was raised many times before, why didn’t the unions have it stopped?

Why doesn’t the Education Dept. have sign language on the primary school curriculum?

The M1B needs to extend from Nerang to Canungra to Jimboomba to Brown Plains Gateway interchange. This is where the long-term growth will be. Marco Polo

Council. Please ban leaf blowers! Use a broom.

I am an elderly bike rider forced off general roads because of crazy, aggressive motorists. I have been spat on, slapped, screamed at and knocked off my bike in shopping centre car parks. Now my wife has banned me from riding unless I go only on bike trails. Sorry, but too many drivers are just dumb tossers. Why? A nation that has always produced the world’s best number 10s eg Lynagh, Larkham. l don't put Cooper in their calibre. Foley is getting there and next is Nick. Noel

Kiwis, just remember last year. The Super Rugby season has no bearing on the Bledisloe.

Centrelink chasing back all money owing, should we not be forcing all of the ineligible MPs in Parliament to do the same? This is public money. Bet none of the MPs lose any of the superannuation they have made.

These foreign MPs and all politicians cannot make it in the real world, so it looks like Coles & Woolies will be getting some more checkout chicks.

Keith Woods’ excellent comments

on plastic bags were spot on! It’ a big con-job. Mk.

Noel you might be right from one point of view, only you asked what is an Ex NZ-er? Well for your benefit there is no such thing. Once a Kiwi always a Kiwi. You can take a Kiwi out of NZ but not NZ out of a Kiwi. As for the rest of your comments, don’t write off the All Blacks yet. And regarding Our Games consider the sporting populations of both countries and didn’t England do well with their population? James P McGuire.

Another fine dining dinner ruined by out of control rude children. Have parents lost the ability to say NO. Will someone please open an adults only restaurant and we will be there.

Don’t believe you are receiving any benefits from this budget. Nearly all offers are more than a year away and up to five years away. Don’t go and spend it yet. A slight downturn and all the offers are off. Tess.

A Current Affair showed a Melbourne woman frustrated with growing crime in Melbourne, moved to the Goldie “for quieter life ”. Obviously she hasn’t got a TV at home!

It looks like no matter how much extra income the federal government receives, Malcolm will find some way to waste it on anything other than reducing debt. Being a socialist, Malcolm by his very nature is a spender not a saver. GT.

Here’s some craziness. A young person I know has been on Centrelink from school. Now that they found a job but don’t have a car. Centrelink said they would pay for a skateboard to help get to and from work. It’s true. This is what will happen. A crash. Broken bones. Then work cover. Believe it people. That’s who is running our country. The Mad Rooster.

Crikey, Bill Shorten’s rolled gold guarantees don’t seem to be worth much right now. GT.

Kudos to Keith Woods! I look forward every week to reading your editorials. You are so on point on topics that really matter!

Might I suggest a few of the Gold Coast police stations leave the door open at night. They might then hear and catch the lunatic who roars all around the streets at 2am every morning. Roy, Burleigh.

We need to bring back the stocks for criminals. Public humiliation with the whistle of the lash will curb insolence. Where are the coppers of the past who’d dish out some knuckle? grandpa.

Thank you to police regarding speeding on Ferry Road. Keep it up, please.