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OUR health services come under fire from time to time however, the level of care I have experienced at Robina a Hospital has been nothing short of outstanding.

The hospital’s nursing manager, Charmaine Garlick, has obviously instilled a level of pride, work ethic and culture that is reflected in every staff member I encountered during my 24 hour stay for a minor surgery procedure.

The place is full of passionate and caring Gold Coasters who happen to be brilliant at their jobs. W SINCLAIR BROADBEACH WATERS

THE disaster at Sulawesi highlights the nonsense being peddled by the climate evangelists. For years they have been telling us that emergencies of this kind can be mastered by restricting global temperatures.

Yet none of them could predict, much less control, this latest Indonesian catastrophe.

In 1883 a volcano on Krakatoa erupted, pouring more gunk into the atmosphere than a million chimneys.

It was not the first and it certainly won’t be the last.

In Poland later this year a farce will be enacted when a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats get together to “fix” the Earth’s climate.

A UN Framework Convention on climate change will decide how to parcel out $140 billion – yes, $140 billion – to address this bogus problem.

Central to these discussions is the move to keep global temperature rises below 2C as part of the Paris Accord.

Even now, some of the warmists are seeking to whip up a sense of panic. The UN Attorney-General, Antonio Guterres, is warning that the threat (of climate change) has reached the point of no return.

Do these people seriously imagine that by signing a piece of paper they can tell Nature how to behave?

Do they not know the climate emergencies which so concern them – droughts, floods, hurricanes – have occurred down the years and will again? Centuries ago King Canute took his court to a beach and told the tide not to come in.

We all know what the tide did in response. It seems that our climate alarmists are equally blind. PC WILSON, MIAMI

THERE has always been a puritanical streak to the American psyche. Past acquaintances of Judge Brett Kavanaugh recall he could be a “belligerent” drunk with slurred speech, wobbly on his feet, and also drank booze than beer.

I’m sure if l applied to be a road sweeper, there would be no fear of what might be dug up about my past – all damnable lies of course.

But then l would have no say in changing Roe v Wade and making abortion illegal once more, which the US Democrats fear. DAVID HALL COOMBABAH

WHAT is important is the hospital, not its name “Lady Cilento”.

If the 900 staff want a name change, why must we foot the bill?

Let them pay for a name change, if it is that important to them.

I’m sure there are better ways to waste $500,000. FRED ERICSEN-MILLER TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN

DEB Frecklington, leader of the Queensland Opposition, has called for a State Government assistance package for strawberry growers who have had their livelihood decimated by some sick human being putting sewing needles in fruit.

The Premier has already offered a $100,000 reward to find this criminal, but this is a short-term solution to save the farmers.

For a start, they must change their marketing habits of packaging them in costly labour intensive 250 gram punnets.

When there is a glut, package them in 500 grams or 1kg tubs.

And tell the Qld Strawberry Growers Association to re-educate the farmers to start growing true strawberries that have sweet smelling flavour and taste!

Not these genetically modified, hard-as-rocks, white core, long shelf life, tasteless things.

Grow what the majority of the public will buy, not what the supermarkets tell the farmers to grow. ANGELO CATALANO BIGGERA WATERS

THE UN’s Paris Climate Accord selectively requires some countries to reduce their use of coal while others can massively increase theirs.

China is the world’s biggest coal user yet the Paris treaty allows them to increase emissions by 50 percent by 2030.

This tells us that the Paris treaty has nothing to do with “climate” – the claimed reason it exists.

In fact, the Paris treaty is a global wealth redistribution scheme.

Developed nations are forced to hand over cash and industries to developing nations.

This process forces up our power bills and reduces our manufacturing capability for zero effect on climate.

Yet our politicians and bureaucrats have signed us up for precisely that.

In a sane world these people would be rotting in jail for crimes against their own nation. PETER CAMPION

PREMIER Palaszczuk thinks it’s morally and politically fine to give KAP a $500,000 boost to staff entitlements when she needed their backing but has now taken it back because they won’t denounce Senator Fraser Anning.

This is deplorable behaviour from someone in her position.

She must be reprimanded in the toughest possible way for treating our democratic system with contempt. KEN JOHNSTON ROCHEDALE SOUTH