Driver training facilities essential
Time to move on over PM ‘outrage’
EVERY 22 minutes in Australia a critical injury or death occurs in a road crash; 27 fatalities so far this year in the Far North.
The responsibility to survive the drive is with the driver and when we sit behind the wheel of a motor vehicle our lives, and the lives of others, are literally in our hands.
We need to know what to do and do it safely.
The cornerstones to achieve this are: attitude, knowledge, foresight, judgment, concentration and skill. Unfortunately 100 hours of driving with any licensed driver, who unknowingly hands down their own bad driving habits, is not the way.
If the government is serious about saving lives it should build driver training facilities, such as Mount Cotton in Brisbane, throughout Australia, as is the case in many countries. Peter Roggenkamp,
Yorkeys Knob WE NEED to give up on this indignation at the multiple prime minister thing.
I’m more interested in having the ‘‘right’’ prime minister than that we have had so many of them recently. We don’t ever vote for the prime minister, except in the electorate they are from.
Our elected officials of the ruling faction vote for the prime minister.
If they want to fairly vote for somebody better who they work with, and know better than us, that’s all right. The prime minister, to coin one person’s phrase, is in effect ‘‘unrepresentative swill’’ in relation to our vote, with likely less votes than a number of senators.
Political commentators hyping things up to justify their jobs need to give it a break.
It seems too easy to get such jobs these days. Whatever hap-