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I have often written about folks up here who say they don’t want to be another Gold Coast.

I don’t always agree.

There are things I would really like from down south.

Their public transport infrastructure would be one, though multitudes up here would not agree with me.

That’s fine to disagree, but getting around by public transport is a disaster up here and, in my view, the Gold Coast is way better.

I would also like their public space and aquatic set-up at Southport.

It is the next level.

I certainly don’t want to reproduce the Glitter Strip and everything that goes with it.

Just last week, I found a couple of other things (or, in fact, people) that can stay down at that end of the state.

Leading up to last week’s election, I read where two political candidates from the Gold Coast were banging on about weather manipulation by governments and other named evil geniuses.

Some election candidates have some weird ideas. Picture: Shutterstock

Firstly, I do wonder how a political party in this state could endorse someone with those views and, secondly, what types of imagination and actual intelligence does it take to believe it to be true?

Surely, Donald Trump and his ‘fixed’ election loss is more palatable than someone actually trying to get elected via scare tactics, with the belief that governments and others plot weather disasters for their own benefit.

I would even believe that Trump orchestrated someone to put a bullet through his rather large earlobe from 200m away to gain public sympathy before I can digest Doctor Evil sending a hurricane, tornado or cyclone at strategic areas for the greater good.

Whatever these folks are on, get me some of it.

Sadly, the pride of this particular political party will get reimbursed per vote if they get 4 per cent of the primary vote, as far as I am aware.

I really hope I read that particular fact wrong because that would mean if one-in-24 people vote for them, they will get a return.

So, I suppose the best way to test that is, the next time you have a barbecue, ask 24 of your friends if anyone accepts there is weather manipulation.

If you get one ‘yes’, I suggest you borrow the tin foil off the barbecue, put it on your head and wait until the federal election for some more geniuses to come along.

Wow!

Ashley Robinson is chairman of the Sunshine Coast Falcons and Sunshine Coast Thunder, and a lifetime Sunshine Coast resident.

 

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