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WITH the traffic problems around Southport, one can understand buses being late.

But there is no excuse for being early and leaving school kids sitting on a main road waiting for the next bus 10 minutes later. ROD WATSON, MAIN BEACH

IT’S amazing that current politicians can propose a new power station and the expansion of our huge Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme when it was previous pollies who sold power generators to overseas interests.

Is this so the new infrastructure can be sold as we are told the same bull that charges will not increase?

Keep improving all our power supplies so it too can be sold overseas?

The power debacle proves a modification to the old saying: pay peanuts get monkeys.

Now it is, pay a fortune and get parliaments of idiots. B. BENSON, PALM BEACH

TO all intents and purposes, Australia is literally and morally bankrupt although no one has the intestinal fortitude to admit it. We have a maximum of three months’ fuel supplies and now we are told we are heading for a power crisis.

Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull’s meeting with the gas suppliers was all show and no substance as we have come to expect these days and won’t lead to any longterm solution.

Mr Turnbull should be telling them (and other big business and the banks) what to do and not the other way around but when you have Clayton’s leaders like we have what else can we expect?

The problem with “renewable” energy, and technology for that matter, is we persist in using them without fully understanding how they work.

If the wind doesn’t blow there is no electricity and if the sun doesn’t shine there is no electricity and this proposed battery bank for SA will not store sufficient power long enough to see through a major outage.

Until we fully understand how to harness the sun’s energy (forget about wind power) we should stay with what we know and has worked very well until now.

On top of all that, we no longer have any discipline, morals or respect which has resulted in the lawless society we see today.

Yet we still seem to think we are the lucky country. What a joke.

For those who think I am being too negative, I am actually being realistic and honest.

Truth and honesty are also morals no one promotes any longer. It’s all about telling lies and the bigger the better.

We are reaping what we have sown over the past 50 or so years. LINDON LITCHFIELD, SOUTHPORT