YOUR VIEWS
THE Queensland government has been hiding other issues behind Covid for over two years.
We have a disastrous rental housing crisis that has been allowed to fester, and now Queensland families are homeless, living out of cars and in tents.
We have the worst ambulance ramping seen anywhere in Australia, and a deepening crisis in our hospital system with sick people laying on the floor in the aisles waiting to be attended to.
We have serious integrity issues within our Queensland public service, with more and more complaints being lodged.
Meanwhile, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk takes a three-week holiday, then waltzes back in with her first public appearance being an Olympic Games announcement.
The next day the Premier rolls out the same tired old deflection tactic of saying the Morrison government should give Queensland more money to fix the housing and hospital crisis.
Well Premier, you spent $200m of our money on a useless Covid vaccination centre at Wellcamp that we all knew was a total waste of money, and you committed $5bn to an Olympics Games we do not want, and can’t afford.
Better, and more sensible, economic management and governing would help fix our hospitals and housing issues.
T.L BRIEN, HOPE ISLAND
NATURALLY, all the valid objections over the now approved and commenced Gold Coast Oceanway have been set aside – environmental and safety issues notwithstanding.
So this unnecessary and, dare I say it, frivolous huge expenditure of about $7m is being spent by us, when our roads are totally disgraceful, and so much needs to be done for other repairs and replacements after our recent terrible weather events.
Let alone flood damage and destruction of homes here and in Brisbane and erosion along our inland roads; collapses everywhere. Where do our values lie?
Is the tourist dollar so important that we can overlook “ordinary” expenditure for residents in favour of overturning any environmental and safety concerns on our beautiful beaches, – themselves the only tourist attraction we really need.
Another writer recently used the words I am now using again – “Lest We Forget”. How appropriate that we should be reminded again that there are other matters more important to ordinary living, than the constant pursuit of the almighty tourist dollar – at any cost.
CAROL PEARCE, SURFERS PARADISE
A METHANE-CATCHING cow muzzle is among the winning projects of the inaugural Terra Carta Design Lab competition, run by The Prince of Wales and former Apple designer Jony Ive.
As methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 in the short-term, with an 84 to 86-times higher warming power over a 20-year period, inventor Francisco Norris claims this could help to reduce the climate impact of the livestock industry overall.
This was one of four winning projects selected from 125 submissions that will each receive £50,000 in funding.
No mention of the cost and CO2 implications of manufacture, the cost of installation in terms of man hours and the cost of constant removal and cleaning of the muzzles? No indication of hygienic implication for the cattle? When does this idiotic climate catastrophe stop? DARRYL HENNIG, SOUTHPORT
I wonder if Tom would have given the HOTA venture the go ahead if he was funding it himself? Stevo
Instead of offering the NRL a reported $10m a year to get the grand final played in Brisbane, how about Palasczcuk spend the money on more hospital beds, the ambulance service or the police to get juvenile crime under control? The Labor government has absolutely no idea about priorities. Meanwhile, it is more important for her to have her photo ops with the 2032 Olympics committee. Jolly Roger
Despicable thieves removed & stole three brand new carpet rugs completely rolled up and wrapped left on the back covered veranda (by a delivery company driver) of an elderly couples home, down a long driveway and couldn’t be seen unless someone had been looking around the house, saw the rugs, came back and took them. Please contact Palm Beach police or Crimestoppers if anyone saw a dirty white ute in Evergreen Drive, Elanora, removing such items or trying to sell them to unsuspecting buyers wanting carpet rugs at a lower than average price. Any help would be very much appreciated.
1892 MANFRED VON