A typical CEO

tactic to turn the public against council staff just as the new wage bargaining agreement was starting. These events haven’t happened for 3 years anyway due to Covid so he is just grandstanding. Coaster

If every world leader since 1953 was half as good as Queen Elizabeth then this world would be in a far better place than it is today, so to all those current leaders or those aspiring to be leaders, best you all lose the egomania status and start to do your DUTY not for you, your family, or country but EVERY citizen who deserves to live a full and honest life. Doug

Good to see the Indigenous flag and Aus flag flying at half mast to acknowledge the passing of the Queen. Is this reconciliation or accidental result of tokenism? Geoff

We got cameras EVERYWHERE! Yet police always need help with identification of people and vehicles!!! Get cameras that can easily recognise number plates and faces. They are out there. Why have those useless ones?

Re: Coolie Scooter Grunt. Yeah that’s right let’s find this (oldish) fella & prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. Even jail him. But let the REAL criminals go free. Broadbeach Oldie

Developers using loopholes to rescind real estate contracts in order to resell property for higher prices will be dealt karma when the real estate market falls, the greedy grubs.

The logic behind suggestions there shouldn’t be pay rises for workers because it raises the cost of living is downright twisted. In fact it’s bonkers, earth shatteringly stupid, nonsense. There has been wage stagnation, thanks to the policies of the former LNP government, but If there had been no pay rises at all, workers would be starving and homeless.

Have any ratepayers who were overcharged been penalised for late payment or had their homes sold by council to recover unpaid, overcharged, rates? There will be movement from the lawyers as the word has passed around.

Science Believer – as one contributor I have degrees in both earth sciences and civil engineering. Did you graduate kindergarten?

The silliest tax of all, so far, is payroll tax. A tax on employing people. What next? Meters on toilets? No wonder the Bible speaks so negatively about tax collectors.

The no body, no parole law should be strictly enforced. Murderers who dispose of bodies at sea or in other ways they cannot be located, should not be exempted. Why are killers given terms of less than life and paroled anyway? There is no parole for the victims or their relatives and friends. The law is an ass.

Hey Science Believer, here’s a question for your thousands of scientists, how come none of thousands of end of the world catastrophe predictions have come true. And when predictions are made and then proven wrong the doomsday spruikers invent another catastrophic event to take its place, and along the way make plenty of money selling things to save you, like solar panels, EV’s and zero energy. Please give us a break. The Real Science Believe.

Whilst we are all very saddened by the Queen’s passing surely it is time to end this farce of a royal family who consider themselves better than the masses and at considerable cost to the taxpayer. This is the 21st century. JB

See you spread the text to the editor over to the next page. The whole new opinion page is out of synch and disjointed. Disappointing. WB Tweed

Amanda Abate & her child’s leash. How about calling it by its previous generation name ... a harness. It’s use probably keeps a lot of active children safe. Flicka

Finals football over integrity, player charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, gets to play and Phil Gould says he should be congratulated? What the? Crystal

Union lover, yes 50 odd years ago unions did make better with safety changes in many types of industries for workers as employees. Get over it. Unions they now have strikes and inconvenience everyone many times. A Greed of demands Remember that employers have given lots and lots of benefits, with provisions in the workplace for many years to employees, all now mostly controlled by Govt conditions not unions. Yes, without the employers making money for their business and outlays their