Only in America could this madness reign

Legal action against Robert Irwin and bulletproof backpacks have one letter writer asking “why?”

Robert Irwin celebrates his 15th birthday at Australia Zoo with a triceratops. Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago

Only in America

IT could only happen in the USA.

Animal activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals decides to go legal when Robert Irwin from Australia Zoo offers education to a live audience and millions of television viewers about Australian wildlife.

Amazingly pathetic indeed.

Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in America because of the power of the American gun lobby and American citizens' obsession with guns.

The solution by the American marketing gurus is to promote bulletproof school backpacks for the children.

So very, very sad indeed.

Only in America.

- JEFF TAYLOR, Currimundi

 

Bill of Rights

WHY is it that the Liberal Party of Australia have historically, on multiple occasions opposed a Bill of Rights for all Australians to be incorporated in our Constitution?

Yet they are in the process of proposing a "bill of rights" for the religious.

It seams like the Liberal Government agree with a former rugby player and that when it comes to rights of atheists, we can all "go to hell".

I cannot wait to see the added privileges to be bestowed on those considered to be more special than yours truly.

- ROBERT JAENSCH, Nambour

 

Ashes to ashes

DON'T get excited this query about ashes has nothing to do with the cricket.

How do people feel about someone's ashes being spread over their favourite beach?

My old step dad died a while back and his daughters in Brisbane want to spread his ashes over one of our beaches.

The old bloke never went to a beach in the decades I knew him.

Would you feel comfortable knowing you are sunbathing in someone's dead loved one?

- TONY MAGRATHEA, Dicky Beach

 

Reds under the bed

SO here we go. ASIO raises the reds under the bed argument. In their submission to a parliamentary inquiry they claim foreign governments are recruiting journalists as spies. How far are our agencies prepared to go to protect their fiefdoms and secrecy?

- LYNDA HOWARD, Meridan Plains

 

Labor lost

REGARDING Andrew Moran's letter (Daily, August 13). Can someone tell him that Labor lost the last election please? It would appear he has only two topics to write about, criticising the Liberal party and other correspondent's letters. His latest topic was to criticise our two local Liberal members for not doing enough after the election. He fails to understand that Wallace and O'Brien are mere backbenchers and as such they have limited powers to work the miracles Andrew wants them to perform. They have only been elected again in the past few months so should be given time to carry out their election promises. Moran really should find other topics to write about as his rantings about the government and praise for Labor is getting boring. He should understand that Queenslanders gave Labor the boot and that other correspondents to the Daily are entitled to their opinion even if they conflict with his opinion.

- KEITH WHITESIDE, Sippy Downs

 

Climate cycles

IT would seem that climate change has been rather fluid in our past.

Back in the early 1980s I was involved with the University of Queensland digging costeans (trenches) for them so they could examine the exposed strata.

This was in the Goomeri district not far from us.

The personnel involved were finding crocodile teeth in the walls of these costeans, so it would appear that at some stage in our past the temperature was hot enough for crocodiles to be so far south, way more heat and humidity than we are experiencing today.

Cyclical? Yes.

- ADRIAN SCHULTZ, Mooloolah Valley

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