Letter of the Week
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HAVE you noticed PhD’s are being handed out like jelly beans? During the 1960s conservative liberal politician Henry Bolte, under attack by leftist academics, derogatively talked about them studying how to ‘sew fly buttons on flies’.
WARREN JAMES TWEED HEADS
I WONDER just what will come out in the final Banking Royal Commission Report in February 2019 in the form of how people financially disadvantaged by the ‘greedy’ banks will be compensated.
Some CEOs have stood aside but they still have their millions.
Any banking employee who misled investors and others who caused financial hardship knowingly and unlawfully should be charged and tried. Greed is not a crime but in the case of the banks it has caused many to occur.
Anna Bligh, Australian Banking Association CEO, says ‘there are no excuses for the behaviour that has been exposed by the Royal Commission’.
Hardly a comment out of left field, Ms Bligh.
The public would like to hear about the consequences of this appalling behaviour as bankers for years have been lining their own pockets with the fruits of giving misinformation to investors.
Banks are promising to repay every cent for their betrayal.
Pigs might fly too! If you rob someone, you face criminal charges. Not with the banks.
You simply repay what you stole. Meanwhile, several farmers and others have ended their lives to escape the treatment given by banks.
How do the banks repay that? They simply have no remorse.
Bankers were once high on the list of trusted professionals but now they’ve dropped down to the bottom. I’d rather trust a politician!
KEN JOHNSTON ROCHEDALE SOUTH
RE Darryle Knowles’ comments on shopping trolleys (Chatroom Saturday Septem
Firstly supermarkets provide shopping trolleys for their customers’ convenience to use both instore and getting groceries to their cars then returning the trolley correctly to the area provided.
Councils would be best to fine the shoppers who decide to wheel the trolleys some distance outside of the shopping centre area and then ditch them on the side of the road, footpaths, in bushes and even in canals.
Trolleys come at a great cost to supermarkets and that in turn is included in the cost of the food we purchase.
BYRON HORNE
IF you doubted that the ABC is firmly in the hands of lefty Communist infiltrators, the response to sacking the Managing Director proves it, beyond any doubt.
One thing good about lefties is, they’re incapable reason.
Therefore they’re pretty useless at coming up with new tactics.
They still operate out of the Communist handbook on, “How to Infiltrate and Subvert an Organisation.”
I first read one in the 1950s. So they’re a bit short on new ideas!
Demand that the ABC employees percentages mirror that of the Australian people. That’d be a great start.
And putting the major parties last in the next election would be an outstanding finish.
FRANK BROWN
SURELY the low-life teenagers who went on a car wrecking spree at Sorrento can be made to pay for their reckless behaviour.
Garnish their wages but I doubt they would be smart enough to be working. Or maybe no Newstart until repairs are paid for in full.
And to those bleeding hearts who think this would be to harsh, I’m sure you would have a different opinion if it happens to you.
Slaps on the wrist clearly do not work and the judiciary need to do their job and protect us from the people.
ROD WATSON SURFERS PARADISE
IF psychiatry has any residual integrity, “wokeness” will be classified as a mental illness in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
“Wokeness” sufferers typically believes in “gender fluidity” – an illogical and unsupportable concept.
Species that utilise sexual reproduction have just two sexes – male and female. Belief in additional sexes requires irrationality and dissociation equivalent to other recognised cognitive disorders.
Those afflicted by “wokeness” display deranged obsessions with a variety of imaginary issues beyond impossible biology.
These include the imagined ability to identify microaggressions, heteronormativity, racism, oppression, inequality, classism and injustice where none exists.
The equivalence to schizophrenia is too strong to ignore. We need to get those afflicted by “wokeness” out of the public sector and back into funny farms where they do less harm.
PETER CAMPION