Bulletin taking up our fight with those who remain idle

I WOULD like to thank the Gold

Coast Bulletin immensely for its coverage on the NSW border closure. The newspaper has shown plenty of guts to stick up for vulnerable people like me during the coronavirus crisis, when very few leaders are doing so.

Thousands of us have lost our jobs or had our hours cut and do not know how to pay our bills. Friends are doing silly things because they cannot see a way out.

The Bulletin and business leaders are the only ones able to see this tragedy.

The paper’s articles this week against the State Government have been terrific and very telling – from the number of business closures, job losses, flights into the airport, the worry for theme parks and the fact Annastacia Palaszczuk does not know how much her closing the border is hurting her own economy. No wonder the state is $90 billion in debt. They got the Premier down here in the first place to show how fed up we are.

I have been particularly disappointed with the leadership of Mayor Tom Tate, who has championed the Gold Coast and jobs in all his time in office. However, when thousands of tourism and small business workers like me are in the gutter, he is silent.

I do not agree with some of the stories published in the Gold

Coast Bulletin but I feel it has the city’s back and is prepared to stand up for the community, even if it strains or breaks relationships with the people in power.

The newspaper has shown plenty of courage in recent years fighting for a number of social issues and I hope it continues to look the big wigs in the eye. In this instance, I need them to.