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DEAR EDITOR,
ARE WE ALL HAPPY NOW? For the 45th time in the last 49 years, Australia - a country of approximately 25 million citizens - will, for the next six months, be operating, not only with the clocks on the eastern seaboard 'out of sync', but also within five time zones instead of the standard three. India - a country of 1,381 million citizens has one time zone - all year round. In 1894 Australian jurisdictions adopted STANDARD TIME - 15 degrees longitude equals one hour of time - 10 hours equals 150 degrees. (Queensland's current relevant Act is still dated 1894). Politicians were encouraged/advised to ensure that major population centres especially state capitals - were located in the correct TIME ZONE. In 1898/99, Central Standard Time was permanently advanced by 30 minutes because Adelaide, a state capital, had originally fallen within Eastern Standard Time. In 2020, 121 years later, there are still about 11 million citizens (44% of our population), living between Yeppoon and Wollongong, - including in two major state capitals of Sydney and Brisbane. These folk are not situated within ANY Standard Time Zone. If this anomaly had been corrected in 1898/99, by advancing the eastern clocks by the same 30 minutes, permanently, what we now know as Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) might never have seen the 'light of day'. Not to mention the ¬-financial triple whammy being suffered by businesses along the eastern seaboard from DST and
which is now exasperated by COVID-19!! In 1898/99 the Queensland and New South Wales leaders were obviously asleep at the wheel. Has anything changed? We are now well into the 21st century - surely it's about time for some 'deep and meaningful' chatter. Graeme Brittenden.
DEAR EDITOR,
Isn’t it time the LNP moved into the 21st Century and started to use some imagination? We certainly need infrastructure spending, but not in the form of more roads for fossil fuel guzzlers. What we need is better public transport and a network of charging stations, so that more people buy electric cars and their price comes down. H.Beneke
DEAR EDITOR,
We are seeking information as to who we contact regarding the rubbish that accumulates on our roads. We realise that there are several of our tri-level Government departments that are involved, but it’s a matter of figuring out who does what. We live on Bribie Island but we go off the island to Morayfield for various reasons, usually about once a week. When we leave Morayfield we generally enter the Bruce Highway from Buchanan’s Road and from there to the Bribie Island turnoff the amount of rubbish on the side of the road is unbelievable. It is reasonably tidy from the turnoff to just past Pasturage Road but from there until you reach Ningi it looks like a rubbish dump. There are metres of plastic sheeting, cushions, and other rubbish (even for the last couple of weeks a sofa)
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and of course the usual fast food wrappers just callously dumped on the roadside. When they do mow it, sometimes the mowers go through it and chop up the rubbish and spread it even further. There are two council rubbish tips just off the Bribie Road, there are countless public rubbish tins in every recreation area in the district, this is Australia, not some third world country. We also notice that there is a plethora of fast food wrappers that regularly turn up on the island as well, we see them on Sunderland Drive, especially after the weekend. Please would someone advise us of which administrative body to advise regarding this rubbish. And.....Please......would people stop throwing their junk out the car window and secure your loads if on trailers or vehicle trays. Any clean up that is undertaken needs to be done on a weekly basis until people learn how to act like decent human beings.
Very Frustrated, C & A SCHNACK . LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The total irony of Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk’s stance on border closures and the alleged saving of Queenslanders lives becomes clear when we remember how she and her colleagues, apart from the Bundamba MP Jo-Anne Miller, voted into law the October 2018 Termination of Pregnancy Bill. The brainchild of then Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, it made legal the killing of unborn children up to and including the day of birth. This horrendous and viscous act of violence upon our voiceless and defenceless future generations kills an average of
30 unborn children each day, a frightening total that soars way above anything produced by the Covid-19 virus. By the time the State Election is held on October 31st. the total of unborn children killed in Queensland since the passing of this Bill will be almost 22,000. As well as killing a child abortion also damages the mother with lifelong medical and psychological problems which have been extensively documented in medical publications. A government that not only sanctions but encourages the killing of unborn children is a government that is not fit to hold office. It is pleasing to note the public announcements by the LNP, One Nation and the Katter Party that they support life and if elected to government will change the law to protect the unborn. They will also offer counselling services, deliberately excluded from the 2018 Bill, that explain to the expectant mother the alternatives to the killing of her child. Good news indeed. A vote for Ali King and Anastacia Palaszczuk and her government at the October 31st. election means more killing of the unborn. Life in the womb must be treated as sacred and precious. This can only happen by rejecting the present anti-life Labor government and putting in their place those who respect the sanctity of life.
DEAR ED,
Boy, do we need a hospital on Bribie Island particularly for accident and emergency. But this week’s carpetbagging state Labor announcement about a satellite hospital on Bribie is unprofessional and just a policy “pila szchit”.
