YOUR VIEWS
I’D like to thank the Bulletin for reporting that the delayed construction of Stage 3 of the light rail to Burleigh is costing Queenslanders one million dollars per day.
But let’s now double that to two million dollars per day, as the cost in my opinion of Stage 3 has already gone from $670m to over $1bn long before this article was written.
If Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey worked in the private sector he would have been sacked months ago.
Minister Bailey has already been quoted saying “passenger numbers are bleak” on our GC trams.
The implementation of trams through Southport and Surfers Paradise has destroyed hundreds of small businesses. We don’t want our southern coastal communities to suffer the same fate.
In the same article, journalist Andrew Potts wrote that John Holland Group, who were awarded the contract to build Stage 3, is a “Melbourne based construction giant”.
Mr Potts only tells half the truth. John Holland Group was purchased by the Chinese Communist Government in 2015.
People should know where their hard earned money is going. KAREN ROWLES, PALM BEACH
I AM stunned at the appallingly inadequate provision of testing hubs for Covid.
Surely, after allowing huge music festivals such as one on the
Sunshine Coast to go ahead, with not a mask in sight and bodies crammed together, the increased need for testing would be all too obvious.
Festival vax status was not checked and naturally outbreaks have since occurred.
Our Christmas Day was one of many, cancelled due to home isolation. Time and money wasted on food preparation. Disappointment of being in lockdown instead of at the usual family gatherings.
The utter irony was, it was all “go” one day, no masks, then masks and social distancing the next.
By then, the damage was done. Yesterday, our granddaughter, who is a homebody and conscientious mask wearer, was required to queue up from 8.30am until 2.15pm before eventually being tested.
Despite 30-plus blockout, her beautiful creamy white skin was burnt through lack of shade provision.
What a farce. Sick, old or disabled folk could never do that, and if asked to queue, I will refuse. LYNN CORNEY, MUDGEERABA
I HAVE today purchased my last copy of the Gold Coast Bulletin, I’ve grown tired of the cover-to-cover anti-Palaszczuk government rhetoric and relentless personal front page attacks.
This surely underlines the need for greater diversity in the media. JEFF DAVIDSON, SOUTHPORT