On the Esplanade

On Esplanade dining. What’s the point? The restaurants are only open from 11am to 2pm and 6pm to 9pm for last orders. If you really want to be serious about tourism, tourists are 24/7. Stop wasting our money on stupid projects and start looking at how to cater for tourists at any time. We still haven’t got any public transport to and from the airport. Maurice, Cairns

Cairns councillors: What about the real CBD, not the Esplanade? You seem intent on dragging people away from the centre of the CBD instead of helping the existing businesses and the landlords from generations who built the CBD and encouraging people to fill the empty shops. Flatten the useless landscaping in the middle of the road in Shields Street between Abbott and Lake streets and have your eateries (under awnings) there without taking more roads away and keep the people in the CBD.

True Local, CBD how can the allocation of funding be considered as “rorting”? Furthermore, you claim “94% of 2019 infrastructure grants were targeted to LNP seats”. Where can this information be found?

Tony, Bayview Heights

Joanne (CP, 12/02). Spinning the subs with a “Green touch” doesn’t cut it. Conservatives own this like Labor own the Medicare card you carry in your purse. Paul, Palm Cove

Joanne (CP, 12/02). Just for your information Malcolm Turnbull and Christopher Pyne happen to be Liberal party members not conservatives. The Liberal Party governs with the support of a ruralbased National Party that is in total disarray with its conservative base fragmenting.

Democrat, Cairns

When you say “rich river silt” from dredging the inlet, Kevin Jalandoni (CP, 12/02), from which river did it come? The Mulgrave hasn’t flowed out of Trinity Inlet for 10,000 years. Sorry, Kevin, but channel silt is estuarine mud, originating in rivers well south of Cairns. It travels on ocean currents and settles in Trinity Inlet, which is a backwater eddy in prevailing current flows.

Richard, Brinsmead

I don’t get it. How can a State Government, which wants “45% less carbon by 2030”, also want a decentralised statewide Olympics in 2032 (CP, 12/02)? Think of all the extra carbon emitted from tens of thousands of people shuttling between wide-spaced venues. Oh, that’s right. Thinking is not their strong suit.

Joanne, Manunda

Robbo (CP, 12/02) NSW is an example of how other states should operate. Not sure what your problem is?

Mal, Westcourt

Paul (CP, 12/02) you nailed it. Right-wing activists seemed to have forgotten who’s been running NSW and the country federally, always trying to hide behind the “Greens skirt” when there’s a crisis.

Keith Foster, Manunda