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Dear Editor, This is a plea for Moreton Bay Regional Council to please take action now before it is too late to save Bribie Island’s Kangaroo and Wallaby population. Yes, it is fast diminishing, we have personally phoned in 5 times to have the body of a Kangaroo or Wallaby picked up for disposal by Council Officers along Sunderland Drive. We have also narrowly avoided wildlife on at least 2 occasions when returning home along Sunderland Drive at night. We can’t really comment on other hot spots because we very rarely drive in these areas. We believe there is only one really effective solution to the problem and that is fencing the National Parks. The fences would not need to be a fence of the quality installed at the Banksia Beach State School’s new car park but would need to provide a deterrent to macropods going onto the roads, e.g. 2 metres high Hurricane Wire would surely be sufficient and in most cases, it only needs to be on one side of the road No doubt lowering the speed limits will be suggested but from our observations, many
people take no notice of the speed limits as they stand now so there is no reason to think they will adhere to the law if the limit is lowered, especially as many of these incidents occur at night when speedsters feel they can get away with it. Very sincerely, Annette & Chris Schnack, Very Concerned Rate Payers. Dear Editor, “Our daughter-in-law died of cancer two weeks ago, so I feel somewhat able to comment on VAD and Palliative Care. Two years ago she was given12 months to live. There was no VAD, so she just continued living, loving her family, going fishing and camping together, setting up an art studio and being a loved and treasured member of our family. At the end she received the most wonderful palliative care from the Sunshine Coast Hospital, she lived her days free of pain. Then on a Saturday afternoon when she was welcomed into paradise, it was at her home, surrounded by the people she loved. The sun was shining, birds singing, and she had a view over the bush landscape
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that they had created. This was not in hospital with the doctor and a lethal injection to perform an assisted suicide. As there was no VAD, there was no pressure to “get it over with “no beneficiaries waiting for tomorrow’s hand out. If the VAD is passed, will the Government supply the $275 million required for palliative care? " Name and address withheld Dear Editor, I’m distressed to have to inform your readers that I’ve developed the latest ‘Gamma’ strain of the COVID infection. The symptoms are when watching state politicians and health bureaucrats on TV I get an overwhelming urge to vomit. I believe the strain is highly contagious and can be transmitted in writing so your readers are at risk. Health advice is not to wear a mask whilst watching TV. David Dear Editor I reference what was a very odd letter to the editor in the prior edition. This writer was taking offence to the price someone was marketing their house and that the agents were "artificially hiking the
price way above what is a fair and reasonable increase". This is surely one of the most bizarre comments I've seen here in this fine magazine. How the hell can you artificially inflate the price?? If the price is too high, then no-one buys it...that's called supply and demand and a process that has been in place for thousands of years! Who knows in another 5 years the price might go down! The writer (clearly a Labour voter) then goes on to say that a capital gains tax should implemented to stop this "blatant opportunism and rorting". Again how the hell could selling your house to meet the market be considered either of these? So if the writer was to sell their house & after doing my research I offer a price that I hope will be accepted, is the writer seriously saying they will then say "that’s too high, how about you offer me less". Interfering in this market process is what any good authoritarian socialist country should do, but not one that should be happening in Australia, although one could argue we are moving all too quickly in that direction. Dan @ Bribie
