letters to the editor

Dear Editor,

In defence of "Anonymous", Al - issue 194, I suggest that these days being brave enough to voice an opinion is enough to attract quite unpleasant responses which can have an unjust impact on family members as well as the writer. I look forward to the views expressed to the editor - Don't always agree but we always have a right of reply/ Unapologetically - Ruggles

Dear Editor,

"The Queensland Budget. Better referred to as the “budget without a business plan”. Some of the major announcements highlighted in a previous magazine by Ali King are frankly amazing. Every household will be eligible for $550 of their energy bills – energy bills that have only increased because of government actions, and now to make up for the government's lack of responsibility they are going to throw $550 at every household. So, a single mum with two kids gets the same $550 that goes to the premiers’ bureaucrats on $300,000 a year. Free Kindy works on the same principle, families who need the help should absolutely get it, but there are literally thousands of households that are comfortably paying for it now and they shouldn't be subsidised in the future –

Dear Editor, that's not a budget, that's a calculated pre-election giveaway of taxpayer’s cash.

Then Ali King goes on to say that the new budget includes "funding to finish construction" of our Bribie Island satellite “hospital”. This was meant to be finished in May, and only now they are finding the funding for completion? And it is NOT a hospital, it is a health hub, which despite the claims, will NOT reduce pressure on local emergency departments and GPs because there are NO local emergency departments and there are NO GPs open seven days a week. Queensland health continues in its chaotic way, there are still over 1000 experienced nurses prohibited from working in public hospitals because they exercised the right not to be forced to be

Again, thank you for your unbiased mag and its huge variety of most interesting articles.... something for everyone. Here are a few open questions to our magnificent pollies including PM to illuminate the thickly veiled case so far presented to us... at massive cost and consequence.

1. Where is the full Business Case with complete SWOT CBA etc Analyses for all the benefits consequences and impacts... including environmental Impact Stats for this massive project of Change to National Energy Renewables?

2. Ditto…The Voice

3. Re Proposed Free Speech Removal medicated for Covid, a vaccination that has been proven not to prevent the disease.

Crime, just getting further out of control, and 72 fewer police are on the force than three years ago. Meanwhile, the federal labour government is just continuing to make things worse by bringing in over 497,000 migrants in the last 12 months who will all be vying for your jobs, your housing, and your rental. The Queensland government's response has been to make it almost impossible for mum and dad investors to see any future in continuing to supply the rental properties to the market that are so urgently needed, so those investors are leaving in droves, how does that help?

Charles at Banksia "

Legislation... what sort of draconian government would want to remove our Constitutionally enshrined Freedoms of Speech movement association etc?

4. What other benefits for some at long-suffering taxpayer expenses are you proposing?

E.g., is it true Australian Land Titles are at risk of being subsumed back to The Crown... or Future Republic via Voice Constitutional change?''?

PM pls reassure us this is not on your government’s agenda.

BR.Christiansen

Dear Editor, Excerpt from Spear & Musket, 1879-1979, Caboolture Centenary, Durundur‘The history of the Aboriginal people whispers in the Casuarinas along the beaches; lives in the lap of the small waves when the night tides rise through the mangroves of Pumicestone Passage; calls with the sea curlew; awakens each morning with the laughter of the kookaburra, and sobs, broken, in the brief accounts written by Europeans.’ Jen- Woorim.