YOUR VIEWS

RECENT commentary regarding ticket allocations to the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games deserve clarification. There are no free tickets to the Games.

As is customary, commercial partners and Games delivery partners have the opportunity to purchase tickets from a separate allocation in accordance with commercial agreements, but pay for the tickets like everybody else.

Our priority is to continue to provide as many tickets as possible for the general public.

GOLDOC board members and staff will receive appropriate Games-time accreditations to allow them to conduct their many duties, but will receive no tickets for spectating at events or for any family members or friends.

Indeed, it is true that those who work hardest to stage a Commonwealth Games are invariably those who see the least of them. MARK PETERS, CEO, GOLDOC

I WAS delighted to read the range of opinions recently expressed in Your Views.

Firstly praise for our Prime Minister who has exhibited a statesmanlike performance among world leaders this week.

Can anyone imagine Shorten doing this? How embarrassing.

The views on boxing; great to have an Aussie win but are we not yet of sufficient intelligence to cease such pugilistic thuggery?

The complete distrust and repugnance for self indulgent lawyers and self serving politicians. No one really trusts these people.

Then onto Gold Coast icons such as Surfers, which is now a traffic congested shambles.

It’s also sad to admit NSW has a far superior transport system.

They introduced double decker carriages many years which now transports its mega population without the dramas we experience and the fares are cheaper.

This is not the Queensland or Gold Coast I remember. R. PAGE, GOLD COAST

THE front page story (GCB, 11/7) infuriates me.

I live in a highrise that is “pet friendly”. It is a community and people need to focus on that rather than forcing sometimes overzealous body corporates and owners to attack residents.

To say “buy a house with a yard” is unfair, why not consider asking if someone needs help?

I am a committee member in my building and recently we had an issue over a dog barking.

The owner works late some nights and I have offered to take him for a few hours.

We have other elderly residents with dogs and I have always offered to help them if required.

We chose to live in apartments and keeping a status quo among owners can sometimes be difficult to negotiate but there is always a reasonable solution.

If a parent had problems with a crying child I’m sure someone would offer to help so why then do people become so intolerant?

We have so many horrible things going on in our world today and why can’t we be more empathetic towards each other and embrace community living? MELISSA RICH, MAIN BEACH