Integrity contest, really?

IT seems that Mayor Bob Manning’s Unity Team’s ego is being put before ratepayers’ safety.

The council has dismissed the additional controls to make the CPAC safe from the dangerous cladding.

Controls that CRC agreed with so that the CPAC could open. It seems they would rather waste money on independent advice in an attempt to renege on those controls.

Council doesn’t want to spend an extra $1.5 million on repairs to cladding issues.

Fair enough, but one has to ask, where was the prudent management while under construction?

When the rest of the world learned from the tragedy that was the Grenfell fires, our council or its constructors, instead buried their heads in the sand.

If this is now an integrity test, between CRC and QFES, you would have to back the body that is charged with the responsibility of saving lives over the backtracking and hopeless Unity Team. Rob Hill, Far Northern Organiser, Electrical Trades Union Queensland 1882: English cricketers lose to Australia on English soil for the first time - a mock obituary in the Sporting Times then declares the death of English cricket, saying its ashes will be taken to Australia, the origin of the “Ashes” trophy. 1964: Roy Orbison (above) releases the

song Pretty Woman. 2004: Greece stages an exuberant closing ceremony to bring the curtain down on the Athens Games, which took the Olympics back to their roots and provided drama right down to the last gold medal. 2005: Hurricane Katrina rams into the US Gulf Coast with 225km/h winds and a nine-metre storm surge, devastating the city of New Orleans and killing 1330 people across the region. 2018: Aboriginal leaders say they are dismayed by plans to appoint Tony Abbott as the federal government’s special envoy on indigenous affairs.