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Good on Johnny Depp for visiting all the sick children in hospital. Hopefully the pistol and boo episode is behind him. Bet it lifted all the kids spirits. Leo 4817 I lay awake at night wondering. How do farmers plant seedless melons? James, Condon Why is the price of fuel in the Burdekin at $ 1.27 a litre and in Townsville is at $ 1.47 a litre? Our elected members are not looking after us. We are governed by the fuel companies and our elected members are too gutless to do anything about it. Nic 4814 So we have a 4 horse race for mayor. Hill, Kippin and Ernst ( both maybe’s), and the mysterious Tville First phantom candidate. I predicted a minority Govt at the state elections, and I’ll go out on a limb again. An ind candidate at the last mayoral election has recently written twice to the Bulletin praising himself and one of Tville’s biggest developers. Courting or confirming support, who knows? But given that Parsons has received the “tap on the shoulder” I’ll predict the aforementioned is the phantom. If I’m wrong which happens occasionally, this ambitious fella will put his hand up somewhere. Pedro Cranbrook To T4817 ... One reason that clubs have to sell more alcohol is because the State Government under Anna Bligh introduced a new licence fee on top of increased electricity charges of around $ 20,000 annually. How do you think that money is raised to pay those costs. Don’t forget these clubs employ many people and to close them down will add more to the unemployment queue. Feral people will always misbehave so the problem will simply shift to the suburbs. Peter4810 Re lack of hospital car parks is a disgrace. Council does not allow businesses to open without adequate parking & the taxpayer paid for the whole expensive move to Douglas because of all the available land. Someone should b sacked for getting the numbers sooo wrong & endangering shift workers’ lives. The same prob is at the uni as well. T. Willows If you think the $ 80 mil the liberals have spent on union royal commission is a bit rich, you wait until Labor is back in power. A royal commission into liberal party donationsd will be a massive witch hunt. Pay back is always a b****. Kevco 4812 Qld gov promised pay down debt using dividend income from assets they didn’t sell. The power companies’ profits will be used up paying interest on the debt being transferred in. And debt repayments must be made. So, from now on, power companies will have no money to pay dividends. Here come more increases in our electricity bills. IAH 4814 Pedro Cranbrook “is the USA silly enough to put another Bush into the White House”? Of course, why not? We were silly enough to put Rudd the dudd in twice. Stupidity is something your born with. 4811 Wayne 4812. If the Bolt Report is your idea of balanced you definitely need help. Oh and take WW & Ron along as well. EL WE CH4812 - your comment about our PM and Windfarms. Recently in Victoria we saw several wind farms - some working some not And several that had blades missing. These cost millions each to install let alone fix them. We have to look at other options. Have you ever seen a wind farm. Jkirwan Fresh batch of renters has meant more dogs running free, barking all hours of the night and day, quad bikers & dirt bikers speeding along residential streets. QPS - happy hunting grounds in forest shores bushy beach. Casanna 4818 All this money being thrown around by all tiers of government lately. I have one question. Where is it all coming from? Bing4817 The Townsville Blackhawks all wearing different coloured socks did not look very professional at all in the game against Norths on the weekend. R 4817