YOUR VIEWS
THE election campaign is now on for all voters to assess and decide how they will vote.
I notice that when Albo is asked a question he is brushed aside by a junior candidate who will answer the question on his behalf.
Hardly a vote of confidence on their leader.
It would be interesting if Albo was asked how he feels about the fact that we have enjoyed the greatest crop yield in history and how this affects his biased view on climate change.
I suspect a junior politician will spring to his defence, push him aside and attempt to answer the question.
I cringe at the possibility of Penny Wong being foreign minister or Kristina Keneally in charge of our borders.
NICK BELLOFF, SOUTHPORT
THE Honourable Stuart Robert, member for Fadden, wants us to get our facts straight about who was responsible for all the mandates related to the pandemic. Sly stuff.
I’d wager it was the obedient nature of most Aussies, which defeated Covid, or slowed it down, and I guess it really should be mandatory for us all to study for a political science degree.
And research the art of obfuscating.
Robert presided over debt notices Centrelink sent to recipients, which were without substance. He described that as a “glitch”. One of many. DAVID HALL, COOMBABAH
WITH regard to efforts of some in council to place a bar on our unspoilt Kurrawa Beach and adjacent parkland, it is worth noting that the hotel proposal at Burleigh Pavilion, situated in a highly popular park precinct near beachfront is now not going ahead (Burleigh Pavilion hotel plans withdrawn after controversy, GCB, May 3).
There was community opinion against the serving of alcohol, and possible subsequent misbehaviour, in a large, high usage community area.
The withdrawal of the application is a course of action which appears to acknowledge community concerns, neighbourhood character and protection, not deterioration, of the public’s asset.
It is to be hoped that, when this proposal amid community recreation land near the beach has been rightly withdrawn, that those in council pushing an alcohol outlet development at Broadbeach, that is on parkland as well as situated on our open space sands, will also desist from an ill-advised course of action. SALLY SPAIN,
FADDEN QUEENSLAND GREEN CANDIDATE
LET’S see, say average home purchase price is $500,000. Labor will lend 40 per cent, that’s $200,000 and will “give” that to 10,000 home buyers, so the total lent is $20,000,000,000 or $20bn, and that’s based on a low average base figure. Each year, so over three years $60bn. Where does this money come from? DARRYL HENNIG, SOUTHPORT