TXT THE EDITOR

Queensland definitely needs a Grand Plan, as Your Say 2020 has stated. Unfortunately Labor’s only grand plan and vision is to be reelected, and then the state will be allowed to sink back into the sloth and inertia that we’ve lived with for years. It will all sound so wonderful until reality sets in, the day after the election.

AGS HERMIT PK

I suppose the only question everyone should be asking about renewables or fossil fuels is: Do we want renewables that supply far fewer jobs and definitely more expensive electricity or do we want coal fired power stations and possibly nuclear to provide heaps more jobs and definitely cheaper electricity? It’s a very easy answer.

SAM 4850

Troy Thompson is everywhere. Seen him at the Willows markets had a good chat. He is a breath of fresh air for Thuringowa. He has an awesome plan for the bats that have wrecked Dan Gleeson Park. There used to be weddings, kids playing in the park, formal photos – all gone. Also he is very aware of the crime rate in Townsville which he seems to have a great plan also. Mr Thompson, thanks for having great vision for Thuringowa, you have mine and my family’s vote. Do yourself a favour go down to the market say hello have a listen, I’m sure he will get your vote.

AR THURINGOWA

Les Walker are you going to answer genuine questions from voters in TTE or are you going to just ignore them like Aaron Harper and Scott Stewart have repeatedly done for the last five years. (eg myself, Blu Kirwan and others are patiently waiting for answers that sadly are never coming.) Question: Do you support making breach of bail an offence again? Scott Stewart (and Coralee O’rourke) both said an emphatic no at Jubilee Bowls Club crime rally; Aaron Harper gave a classic Aaron evasive answer no one in the room understood. Show some class Les, please answer the question.

PEDRO CRANBROOK

For weeks Channel 7 promos were suggesting that one of the cast members of The Full Monty would refuse to take their clothes off. Well it turned out that it was just bait advertising. I don’t like being deceived.

BARNEY BELGIAN GARDENS

Pete at Douglas, Col Rosslea & Rod 4810 – incarceration makes us less safe in the long run if it breaks down positive social connections to family and the community; increases contact with hardened criminals who teach and encourage crime; and stigmatises former offenders so they lose opportunities (like jobs) to reintegrate and contribute to society on release. The answer is well-known if not palatable to quick-fix, “tough on crime” posers: early intervention to address the root causes (e.g. homelessness, mental health, domestic violence, neglect, substance abuse); keeping kids in the education-employment pipeline; incarceration as a last resort to protect the community.

STEVE, BELGIAN GARDENS

Dear Mayor Hill. Any chance you could focus on local government issues rather than police stuff. there’s plenty of potholes, overgrown parks and rubbish for council to worry about.

JAKE BENNETT NORTH WARD

Obviously Annastasia Palaszczuk has had a rethink on her claim that her top priority is to look after Queenslanders rather than winning the October election by the amount of unattainable pie in the sky promises coming thick and fast like a second M1 for Brisbane.

REB KELSO

They say politics make strange bedfellows but the strangest have to be today’s activists. We all have the benefit of centuries of hindsight, have never lived and endured the hardships of life back then under draconian laws, weilded by politicians of the day. But these pillars of moral wisdom, even mature age ones resort to vandalism to express their outraged idealism. We can’t change history and surely we are intelligent enough to accept it for what it was, so we must be intelligent enough to learn from it.

CARL. PIMLICO.

Reliable vs unreliable! The burning question is ”who to believe? “Once more, will renewables guarantee 24/7 power for manufacturing and production? Australia is in dire straits and enough trouble at the moment so we don’t need more Green ideology, without true facts, thrown at us constantly.

M J REYNOLDS MT LOUISA

How desperate is Queensland Labor, when state secretary Julie-ann Campbell returns to the ashes of the Newman government to bag out Deb Frecklington, who was Assistant Treasurer. She fails to mention Queensland was living beyond its means for almost a decade, with mounting debt and an unsustainable public sector. Queenslanders demanded drastic action and Newman fell for it hook, line and sinker. It required the finesse of a John Howard, who gave us a debt-free Australia and modest surplus over three terms. Go figure, had Newman done the same Queensland wouldn’t be in more debt now, with an even more bloated public sector.

WW. C/JONG.

Reb from Kelso, Les Walker is running for Mundingburra, maybe you should take heed of the old saying “better to look the fool than open your mouth and prove it”.

PF AITKENVALE

I can’t make it any clearer than this. A drug, hydroxychloroquine, has now been shown to be effective in the fight against the Wuhan virus. Yet, it is banned here in Australia in many states. Why? Simply because the Left leaning fools in control here have fallen in line with the Left leaning idiots in America simply because and only because Donald Trump said it might be worth a look. So for that pathetic and criminal reason alone, some of us get to die.

ROBERT, PIMLICO

Annastacia Palaszczuk is so arrogant that she will never get it. The Tom Hanks and crew exemption for the hotel 14 day quarantine to be in a luxury mansion is beyond belief. The fact that she said that it is the PM’S fault because he said the film industry is important is even more beyond belief. Sadly I have doubts that the voters in the greater Brisbane area where state elections are won and lost will see through this arrogant dictatorial woman.

RON KELSO.

My taxes are a contribution to health, roads, education, jobs – the areas that grow Queensland, not for the re-election of the Labor Party and not for creating jobs in the bloated overpaid public service in Brisbane. Labor you have trashed Queensland. The North should be a thriving but you’ve ignored us.

SC WEST END

I have never seen so many “political” carrots dangling in front of my eyes since my last visit to the supermarket.

CONFUSED CRANBROOK

So, after doing nothing in council for 20 years, Les Walker wants to do nothing in State Government. Council decided Les’s day was over and dumped him, yet the Labor Party thinks he is the answer? Is he honestly the best they’ve got!

TONY M. DOUGLAS.

Re: The appointment of Les Walker for Labor in Mundingburra. Sorry Les, the majority of the people won’t be voting for you. You had the first term and then a gap, and a further two terms and still you have achieved bugger all for the Hill regime. Stuart has been forgotten for years. Not even a sign where Stuart starts or ends, unlike other suburbs. A little bit of channel and kerbing in Cope Street and a fence around a park in same, which rarely gets used. All the other streets running up the hill off Stuart Drive, no footpaths or channel and kerbing. I think a vote for our Liberal Party man for Mundingburra will be the right choice. As you must already know, the three amigos for Labor haven’t done a thing.

M. STUART.

So locking up crims is a complete failure. I disagree because letting them out is even worse because then they do more damage. Keep them locked up then if that’s the case, with hard labour.

JILL VALE

Is there any chance one of those police traffic control drones could hover over the port access Bruce Highway intersection? There are some seriously freaking big red trucks with freaking big boulders on board that like to race those traffic lights. The number of times I have seen one fly past in front of me on my green light is freaking scary. Accident written all over it and it will be deadly. While I’m at it, the traffic lights/80km/h section at Elliot Springs and Nome on the highway is much the same. An occasional camera van on side of the road that sticks out like a sore thumb, doesn’t slow anything down for more than the time it sits there. It’s a joke. NORM D. NOME 4816

Will Cameron Dick give us the state’s budget before October 5 when the election caretaker period begins? Will Labor’s election promises be fully costed and released before the election? And will the $195 million for stage 2 of the Haughton Pipeline be signed sealed and handed over by then?

RON KELSO.

11,000 university places to go. About time we got back to real higher education science, engineering, medical etc. Not the nonsense that university has become over recent years. Ridiculous salaries paid to uni heads and still we have to import skills from overseas — what nonsense

DOC CONDON