On coronavirus
It didn’t take long for those on the far right to connect the coronavirus to climate change and the Greens. Heaven forbid if we ever had a visit from aliens, those Greens would have stamped their visas and put them on Centrelink.
Ruth, Mt Sheridan
Woz, (CP, 29/01). Who cares about the rest of the world or percentages, you want government to close our borders for a disease that has infected five people in Australia. When we lose 3000 people to a variant of same disease and you’re not upping the government for that.
Bill, Mooroobool hope my grandchildren can enjoy the free life I have had.
Albert, Earlville
Terry (CP, 29/01). I agree but wouldn’t waste my time on political climate change deniers. The Bank of International Business the governing body of world’s central banks and our Reserve Bank has advised against lending to anything connected to coal mining for energy needs. Climate change from global warming is the driver behind the warnings. Given money speaks all languages burning fossil fuels is on borrowed time.
Retiree, Cairns
The CRC should be ashamed at the state of parks and median strips from Smithfield down to Gordonvale. The grass is that high it’s embarrassing. I thought one of council’s main jobs was to cut grass regularly. Not this council that's for sure. Moa Dan, Gordonvale
ED’S NOTE: Main Roads is also responsible for maintaining highways.
Martina Navratilova escaped to the USA, the free world, from Czechoslovakia a Communist State that killed or jailed people for expressing their beliefs all those years ago because of the freedoms it gave. Now she comes to Australia and wants to shut down a tennis great. Margaret Court’s right to freedom of speech, amazing.
Shane, Kanimbla
Re: Tourism industry concern. The old adage of don’t put all your eggs in one basket is true and we all know how fickle this industry can be. Let’s hope Mr Salt advises our people of support to other industry groups such as dairy, sugar, cattle, mining, fishing and the like and government infrastructure such as Kuranda Range and water storage are vital.
Bryan, Mission Beach
I believe Cairns has put all its eggs in one basket by relying solely on tourism. We should be diversifying and bringing back the industries that were our main source of income and employment before tourism.
Geoff, Freshwater
Danny O’Shane (CP, 29/01). Australia was an “open borders” continent in the 18th century and earlier. Indonesians had seasonal trepang fishing settlements on our northern shores. Foreigners came and went at will. It’s no good trying to reinvent history with this “first nations” stuff. If it were true they’d have had border control like all other nations at that time. Joanne, Manunda