SHORT STAYS Dear editor, Short-stay letting has a horrendous history. Damage to its reputation and property, is a gamble for investors and homeowners alike. Noosa Council’s “Short -stay” law addresses controversial issues and the impact on residential amenity. (Advertiser, 24/11). It…
CHECKING IN Dear editor, While out shopping, I walked past a nicely dressed young mother with two children entering Coles and saw the youngest girl point at the Covid registration card and say, “Mummy you do that with your phone.”…
COVID RESPONSIBILITIES Dear editor, The Prime Minister may want more can-do capitalism and less government telling us what to do, but where would that have gotten us this past twenty months? If the State Premiers and Territory leaders hadn’t stepped…
COP26 Dear editor, The curtain has come down on the Glasgow COP26 and another failure to take real and urgent action on global warming. Australia’s contribution was a paltry pamphlet of a plan to do nothing. No changes to targets,…
FED GOV SPEND Dear editor, Rather amusing to drive past signs for the Fairfax LNP MP recycled from the 2019 campaign about building a stronger economy, wonder if he has caught up with the latest – government debt is now…
FED GOV SPEND Dear editor, Rather amusing to drive past signs for the Fairfax LNP MP recycled from the 2019 campaign about building a stronger economy, wonder if he has caught up with the latest – government debt is now…
POLITICAL FUNDING Dear editor, As government debt spirals towards a trillion dollars, we need to trust our government to spend our taxpayers’ money wisely for the greater good. Recent revelations about the Building Better Regions Fund have raised many questions…
Homeless on the coast Dear editor, A quick check of Airbnb (the name of which by the way refers to the practice of providing an air mattress on the lounge room floor) reveals over 50 entire units and over 20…
ICAC Dear editor, If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, would a Federal ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) find all the Quacks and bad eggs in the chook pen? Just asking. Margaret Wilkie, Peregian Beach. ##…
MARCOOLA DUNES Dear editor, I notice that once again Marcoola has missed out to surrounding areas in the latest Division 8 Council budget. Could I suggest that Council refocuses some time and money on its core mission, which is to…