Money down drain

I AGREE with Councillor Fran O’callaghan, that the Townsville City Council should not be using any of ratepayers’ money on breaking ground within the Lansdown project.

Commercial interests and the federal government should be at the forefront of funding for new works to commence.

The Lansdown project is a progressive and great future planning venture, but I believe the council is going above its charter to the ratepayers of Townsville.

Parallels can be drawn with the $19m the council wanted to spend on the Adani airport, which never eventuated.

I am also concerned with the push by both the council and the federal government for a Concert Hall opposite the Queensland Country Bank Stadium.

I am sure we have all experienced the traffic flow and pedestrian movements with big events at the stadium. Add a large event across the road and complications in movement will arise. If the federal government want to put money into this arts venture is should be directed to the Townsville Performing Arts

Centre (TPAC) project, building in and around infrastructure at the Townsville Civic Theatre.

PAUL JACOB, Bushland Beach.

STILL SEE SAME SEA

SIGH! Steve. B.G is right about the catastrophic rapid rise in sea levels.

I live in a highset Queenslander in the Kirwan area.

Until recently, I had a car parked on dry land in the yard, but now I have to live in the attic with a boat tied to the rafters in the roof, just like everyone else in Townsville.

My biggest problem is that I keep getting the propeller on the outboard tangled in what used to be the overhead powerlines, you know, the ones that used to be high above ground level.

Putting sarcasm aside, I have lived in the Townsville area for over half a century now, and some of that time I have worked in the maritime industry and spent a lot

of time on the water.

For over 50 years I have never seen much if any change in the sea levels, I still see the same rocks at the same height above the water as it used to be. Tide measurements in Sydney Harbour show almost no difference in sea heights since recordings began.

Unfortunately, we have a certain mindset, that tries to use, lies, deceit and false fear tactics to argue their idealistic cases, rather than use facts, commonsense and logic like most people.

But why would any sane person try to tell people that there is danger where none exists?

Yes, we need to take care of our planet, but next in line is the sacrifice to the false gods of climate change of our farmers.

Apparently, we need to destroy them to appease these false gods.

If we can’t produce food, then everyone will starve. Not just “someone else” it will be all of us.

Australia contributes such a minuscule amount of toxins yet our pollies are falling over themselves to appease the world.

Right now, we have volcanoes spewing out more noxious gases in one day, than the human race has for hundreds of years.

Does anyone actually think we could stop those from erupting if we put a guilt tax on those countries?

It is past time that we humans started behaving like mature adults instead of like spoiled children throwing tantrums for no real reason.

R. GLEDHILL, Townsville.

OVER THE ‘VIRUS SHOW’

LIKE most people watching the “virus show” play out in front of us, I’m confused at what I’m seeing.

All of the backflips, tap dancing, U-turns, and contradictions by these two incompetent dills, Aunty Anna, and Grandma Jeanette, has emphasised one thing to me.

They have about as much chance of getting anywhere near an answer to this fiasco, as they have of writing a book about fornication.

HOWARD JUNO, Annandale.