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grows. His obsession with nuclear power will be his undoing.

Reducing costs for developers and builders never reduced costs for buyers. Developers and builders base their prices on what the market will pay and pocket the savings. Ditto with first home buyers grants and stamp duty discounts. They only served to push prices up.

Big infrastruc­ture projects like constructi­on of the light rail cause disruption and loss of earnings to adjacent businesses and all too often this leads their closure. Acquisitio­n funding for such projects should include a component to compensate businesses for loss of earnings to ensure they remained trading and employing people. It’s only fair.

The proverb, the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse, is more relevant than ever in this age of social media. Freedom of speech, if there ever was such a thing, should not be confused with the right to knowingly spread disinforma­tion. The spreading of didd so informatio­n and government secrecy are the main reasons freedom of speech is under attack.

Over 2 years ago- we had an Aukus meeting in the UK- 3 World leaders sitting at the table- Morrison, Trump and Johnson- 2 years later- all of them gone ! Now- we got another Aukus meeting- at the table- 3 stooges- Albanese, Biden and Sunakwith a combined intelligen­ce of a wet blanket ! And those three will be gone this year as well.

The Coast a slow dying death !!! The obnoxious arrogant greed of Sydney and Melbourne flocking here.

While the Editor is handling out apologies, how about apologisin­g for your grossly inaccurate and misleading piece on Jimmy Choo in the Bulletin 5/11/23. Jimmy Choo didn’t sell his company in 2017 for $1

Billion Dollars (as stated by GCB), he only ever owned a 50% share and sold it in 2001 for £8.8 million pounds. GW. (Editor replies: Done, I apologise).

Trackless trams with charged batteries, guided by magnetic nails in the roadway, are a far cheaper and better option than trams on tracks. A trackless tram has been trialed in the City of Stirling in WA. Maybe our council could see their way clear to cancelling an overseas junket in favour of a trip to Stirling to ascertain how trackless trams could be used here in a network to service inland suburbs. Might get a few cars off the roads.

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