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IT is a strange world we live in where people complain they have to line up for a few hours to get a jab that could save them from becoming seriously ill or even die.

ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE

WHAT a shame the likes of Peter Dutton can’t be tossed out of the country and the family from Biloela were left in the country.

After all, the family would create more for the country than Dutton would ever in a life-time. D.J.FRASER, CURRUMBIN

COULDN’T agree more with Sue Donovan’s article last week commenting on our Mayor’s claim that “flexibility in applying the acceptable outcomes of the City Plan is a ‘win’ for residents”. What a load of baloney.

I bet the Mayor and members of his planning committee don’t live with the threat of a high-rise pulling up next door, taking away their natural light, taking away the quiet surrounds of their neighbourhood, taking away the subterranean water used for their gardening when underground car parks are approved, and, as Paul Weston commented this week, taking away all the parking spaces in their area.

Or is it a case of signing off everything when it’s “not in my backyard”?

So many non-compliant developments have been approved by council as “Code Assessable” (with no public notification or formal objection process).

Impacted residents must rely on our council to decide whether or not the development complies with the relevant acceptable outcomes and, if not, the relevant performance outcomes.

Nearly every day we read of a high-rise development in the Bulletin. Just last Saturday, Barry Morris plans to build a “25-30 level with basement car parking” on the double residential block in Armrick Ave, Broadbeach.

Too many developments we see being built east of the highway are manifestly excessive over-developments of the space and will destroy the character, scale and amenity, and create a dreadful precedent. And with no consideration for the aesthetics of the skyline.

When did oversize, black box high-rises become acceptable in the Gold Coast beachscape?

Council blows their trumpet about our lovely green space. Let’s not overlook the need for residents to enjoy the beach space – preferably when they can get a parking space and be able to enjoy the beach, not dodging high-rise shadows.

JUDY JENNINGS, BROADBEACH

WHOPPING big dinosaurs and other fossils found in Queensland. So what else is new?

I am surprised that they have all been found in Queensland.

I thought there were some in Canberra sitting on the government’s front benches.