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THE Turnbull Coalition Government continues to deliver for the Gold Coast and our tourism industry.
We’re working to grow tourism to create more Gold Coast jobs as part of our plan for a stronger economy.
More tourists means more business for the Gold Coast and more jobs for locals.
Last year, 1.1 million international tourists flocked to the Gold Coast, spending $1.2 billion.
The 2018-19 Budget delivers record funding for Tourism Australia so we can continue attracting more tourists.
The Budget also includes a new $45 million program to build new tourism infrastructure in places such as the Gold Coast.
Labor’s clueless leader-in-waiting Anthony Albanese, who wrote about tourism funding on these pages, should know funding for Tourism Australia has reached record levels thanks to the Turnbull Coalition Government.
He was probably just too embarrassed to admit funding for Tourism Australia is higher than at any time during a Labor Government, including when he was Deputy Prime Minister.
Tourism is just one area where the Turnbull Coalition Government is delivering for the Gold Coast.
The Budget also delivers tax relief, better childcare, support for small businesses and $1 billion for the M1 as part of our plan for a stronger economy. STEVEN CIOBO MP, FEDERAL MEMBER FOR MONCRIEFF BILL Shorten asked the question “was it fair that under the government’s new tax system that someone on $40,000 should pay the same tax as someone on $200,000?”
Well Bill, the fact is that someone on $200,000 will be paying five times as much.
One wonders what else Bill is confused about. ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE THE phone zombies who stride forward oblivious of anybody or oncoming cars need to be brought back to Earth before they are buried under it, but how?
1. Stab them through the heart with a wooden stake – it works for vampires (on TV) but it might not be the correct method for zombies.
2. Toot loudly or let them walk into your car – relatively safe and better than speeding up as a first response – even if you want to.
3. Continue walking forward and let them decide where they want to walk. Generally if they are so self-absorbed that they don’t look up I will help them up after they bounce off me – I am a “little” overweight and I have time to brace.
Despite these odd suggestions, something needs to be done as a few have already been killed.
Their own safety needs to be considered but so does that of the people they walk into or the emotional consequence to drivers involved in a pedestrian accident.
No call, SMS or Facebook update is worth more than a human life. Look up, look out and look forward to a great life. DENNIS FITZGERALD THE problem of party houses on the Gold Coast is one I am very much aware of. They are places being rented out to people to party, smoke, get drunk and make loud noise all the time.
A unit below me in my building, Pebbles on Bright Ave in Labrador, used to be a party house from around 2012-13 to early 2016 as a group of hooligans was living in it. I am lucky that they’ve moved out since. But never say never again!
Two other units have been revolving doors ever since I moved into my place in November 2006. There have been people constantly moving in and out.
Right now, I’m waiting to find out what the new résidents in those two units will be like. FRED, LABRADOR THE madness continues. The following was reported last week:
“Brisbane could be renamed Miguntyun as a push for Aboriginal place names to be adopted across Queensland gathers steam. Ten proposals are before the Queensland Department of Natural Resources seeking to revert landmarks to traditional names, while Aboriginal elders have also launched bids to rename, or coname, Burleigh Heads and Mount Stapylton in the state’s southeast.
“Aboriginal historians have long argued the Queensland capital should revert to its traditional name of Miguntyun, so-called because a stretch of Brisbane River resembled a ‘migun’, the Yugarabul word for the tip of a spearhead or spike. Aunty Deborah Sandy believes Brisbane should be renamed Miguntyun.”
My question is when did the local Aborigines obtain the knowledge that the river/land looked like “the tip of a spear or spike”?
I’ll bet it was post-WWII, the late 1940s or early 1950s when aerial photography was in use. ROBERT S. BUICK, MOUNTAIN CREEK