YOUR VIEWS
CHINA secures a foothold almost on our doorstep; the prospect of a major conflict spreading from Ukraine looms large.
Yet, here we are being lectured on the supposed threat of global warming.
It requires little effort to scrawl a slogan on a board, Climate Action Now, and parade it through the streets while waiting for the cameras and bringing the prospect of a Labor-Green majority in a hung parliament ever closer.
P.C. WILSON, MIAMI
THE Constitution allows states to be part of our country.
The first thing the states did in 1901 was to build different rail gauges in each state and in so doing not allowing free flow of goods and people. It has been all downhill from there.
In recent times we have seen the NSW government getting caught trying to move expenses from one entity to try to make the budget look good and being made to reverse this action.
The current Victorian government has been investigated concerning alleged corruption and has indicated there will be changes made.
On our home front in Queensland we have been rewarded with the Olympics in 2032 when no other country was interested in bidding. You can remember how jubilant our Premier was announcing this to all Queenslanders.
Only this week we have seen the debacle of our leader putting up $10m to get the grand final played here.
This is taxpayers’ money that will pay for this. Try and ignore the disgrace of ambulance ramping, low morale in hospital staff and people sleeping in the streets and enjoy the games the states are playing.
Then as a sideline to all our problems think about the good things states have done to help Australians. It won’t take you long. BRIAN IRELAND, BURLEIGH HEADS
RECENTLY an appointment was made for me at hospital, and I received a text advising me to phone and confirm the booking.
When I called, a recorded message stated I was eighth in the queue. Twenty-seven minutes later I had reached number one, where I remained for over 20 minutes.
Finally a clearly frazzled apologetic lady answered and explained that she was the only one on duty that day. I had waited 52 minutes simply to confirm a booking.
Hasn’t Queensland Health heard about smart phones or the internet? A simple app would allow most people to undertake such a basic task in a minute, and also reduce the need for staff to handle such a mundane task.
But technology seems to be something Queensland Health struggles with. Not long back they spent hundreds of millions of dollars upgrading their pay system, only to discover it was faulty, and large underpayments had to be processed.
Media stories attacking hospitals are quite common, but the reality seems that it’s usually Queensland Health which has the problem, rather than the medical staff who do a good job under trying conditions but often cop the blame.
IAN TIMMINS, MERMAID BEACH