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THE Queensland Government has cancelled the order for the latest bulletproof vests for their hardworking members of the police force involved in many dangerous situations.

The latest and best vests cost just $184 and for the roughly 1000 members, that is just $184,000. Cabinet would probably spend that much on their next six restaurant meals and think nothing of it.

And, heaven forbid, if any of them were held up at gunpoint on their way home who would they call? Yes, the police, without bulletproof vests.

VERN EVES, TWEED

NOTHING in the political sphere could match the tragedy that occurred near Kingaroy this week.

(GCB, 29/5).

To look at the picture of that gorgeous family and realise they are no longer with us is indeed heartwrenching. To be taken in such an horrific manner adds to the calamity.

They’ll now be together forever which reflects the close way in which the family lived and is perhaps the only compensation we can gather out of the accident.

I feel mostly for the children’s schoolmates who must be in a state of total shock and disbelief.

Vale a beautiful family.

KEN JOHNSTON, ROCHEDALE SOUTH

OVER and over people plead for Carey Park at Southport to be left alone. Why, it is not used at all at the moment?

Build a casino providing work for our youth and a safe place for entertainment for those who want to enjoy it.

Those who don’t can stay at home and complain about something else.

ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE

WHILE the local and state governments are splashing money on the new Spit development, when are they going to install toilet facilities on the river side of Doug Jennings Park?

I wrote a letter to the mayor about this lack of planning when they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the park upgrade along the river side but no toilet or washroom facilities were apparently considered.

Hundreds of people go to this park every week but the nearest toilets are at the kiosk on the other side of the park.

It is not fair that there are no facilities at all, especially for the handicapped and the elderly.

People who visit that section of the park have at some point in time got somewhere to relieve themselves and behind trees (etc) is not the answer.

The fact there are no toilet facilities in this area is a potential health issue as well.

RICHARD FONE

AS the icy jaws of winter begin snapping at the southern states, here’s four questions for those Queensland residents who used to live down there and who believe global warming is bad.

Will the garden at your old house be blooming and growing right now?

Do you prefer skipping along in warm breezes in shorts, or leaning into an icy gale wearing seven layers and a giant overcoat?

How has the “modern warm period” been remotely bad when it has bequeathed us the most advanced human society ever?

How will destroying our economy and electricity grid, and all that depends on them – to reduce by 46 per cent our 1.3 per cent share of humanity’s 3 per cent contribution to a CO2 flux of 0.04 per cent of the atmosphere – solve a problem that only exists in the minds of those who torture data to falsely support an incorrect hypothesis?

PETER CAMPION, TOLGA

NOW that the dust has settled and it has become obvious that the polling can’t be trusted, perhaps it’s time to start questioning the results of the debates.

I find it hard to believe that Bill Shorten won all three debates, certainly not the ones I was watching. How do they manage to fill the audience with their own “undecided voters”. It’s really laughable.

ANNETTE GRACE, BROADBEACH WATERS

THERE was an old saying “that cheating never prospers”. That can no longer be said of the Australian cricket team.

Yes, I agree that Cameron Bancroft, Steve Smith and David Warner are all good players, what I don’t agree on is their inclusion in the Australian team.

For two of these players to be included has meant that two not involved in the ball-tampering scandal have had to be excluded.

Meaning that Australia was either not confident of winning without them or there has been undue influence from Cricket NSW.

Either way, the inclusion of these players in the Australian team brings the whole team down. I am disgusted at the message that this sends to children.

SHAUN NEWMAN, TOWNSVILLE