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A FRIEND received a text from union that it was compulsory to vote Labor.

Which part of communism have they missed?

GEOFF REEVE, BURLEIGH WATERS

SUMMING up the promises made by Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten, it is sincerely hoped they’ve both been lying their heads off to us.

Because if they haven’t the country is headed into a dense peasouper of a fog and will remain there.

DAVID HALL, COOMBABAH

THE impact of the proposed offshore cruise terminal on Philip Park on The Spit is much greater than ratepayers have been led to understand by the council.

An independent report by the consultant team of The Spit Master Plan process was developed to understand the full scale of the land-based component of the offshore cruise ship terminal.

This report is now available to the public and it hardens the resolve of Gecko Environment Council and thousands of Gold Coasters to resist this fantasy project.

Despite claims that the public could still use those small parts of the park not built on, it wouldn’t be long before that was blocked off because of security concerns.

The terminal and jetty will very likely be a barrier to the ocean-way and access to Federation Walk.

It is obvious that the terminal, ramps and carparks would take over the entire area of Philip Park and is now reported to include a four-lane, 15m-wide jetty for semitrailers.

It is likely to create massive traffic issues even with changes to the roundabout and bridge. This area is already at gridlock on holidays and weekends without adding traffic generated by 4000 passengers.

The suggestion that ships could be made to dock at non-peak times is ludicrous. To be even vaguely economically viable it needs to be a home port with all the additional factors that involves and the cost at $450 million or more is astronomical. Who will invest in this when the PwC Feasibility Report states that a return on investment will not occur for 30years? Not the ratepayers we hope.

It is worth noting this report does not deal with navigation issues or weather constraints or the many other environmental issues because that was not its brief.

LOIS LEVY, GECKO ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL ASSOC.

DON’T be hoodwinked by Bill Shorten and the Greens.

As night follows day, death duties will be introduced if Mr Shorten wins government, to subsidise Labor’s big spending policies and climate change costs.

FRANCES AGUGGIA, CARRARA

WHEN giving evidence and other legal matters we used to swear on the Bible.

These days you can quote the Bible to get out of a contract.

ROD WATSON, SURFERS PARADISE

IT is probably typical of Labor policy but interesting to note that Bill Shorten, his staff and his ministers would be exempt from his proposed Division 293 superannuation tax whereby those earning more than $200,000 are hit with 30 per cent tax instead of the standard 15 per cent.

GREG KATER, SANCTUARY COVE

WHY do 677 Gold Coast buildings require cladding inspections costing $4000 to $6000 each (GCB, 8/5)? Short answer: the unintended consequences of greenie activism.

External insulation in cladding was mandated by our slavish obeisance to the UN eco-loons. It took a millisecond for profiteers to rort the system with inferior, highlyflammable materials.

Greenie solutions to non-problems always come at a much higher cost than forecast, and always create more problems than they fix.

For fewer greenie-related problems, vote for pollies who want to exit the UN first and put greenie pollies last.

PETER CAMPION

SOMEWHERE along the line the real truth about the so-called climate change problem must be told.

The United Nations, the Left’s favourite organisation, does have an offical position, but for reasons

unknown the media have never mentioned it.

So what is their official position? I’ll let Christina Figueres who was the Executive Secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change tell you in her own words.

She stated that the real goal of climate change is not that of environmental activists to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism.

Checking that she was to be reported correctly she restated that goal, ensuring it was not a mistake: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

And that is why the leftists of the world are so much in favour of using climate change as it provides the necessary global vehicle with UN backing to wreck capitalist economies and prop up Third World poverty holes.

Climate change is not a problem in the slightest, when CO2 makes up 0.04 per cent of the air we breathe and is a vital element to enable things to growth.

Of that 0.04 per cent humans are responsible for 3 per cent. And what is Australia’s portion of that 3 per cent of 0.04 per cent? Well it’s 1.3 per cent of that 3 per cent. To put that into some sort of perspective, imagine pouring 1.75kg of rice into a bowl. (Don’t spill any). Now get the biggest spoon you have in the draw and spoon out one, that’s right, just one grain of rice.

That ladies and gentlemen is Australia’s portion of the manmade part of the CO2 in the air.

Yet the Labor/Greens, ably supported by the socialist Get Up group, wants to wreck our economy to the tune of half a trillion dollars and cost $60 billion (the cheapest quote so far) to repair something that does not exist.

If you have’t voted – please keep that in mind.

DARRYLE KNOWLES, MAIN BEACH