Nothing wrong with old fashioned
With regard to the Sunshine Coast News article about the loss of character beach shacks, there is a trend here on the Coast to demolish everything old fashioned. It’s sad but true!
If we reject everything old fashioned we will end up deleting the sunshine.
Too many new developments are, to me, dog kennels on steroids. I really hate the square, uninteresting style of cheap houses. They are ugly and will become dated in a short time.
On the other hand, the large rendered houses with high block fences which say, “do not disturb me, I don’t want to know you” are also very institutional, boring and uninviting, in my opinion.
GAYE McGRATH
We’re losing our character
I am very upset to see that these beachside shacks are being demolished fast!
Many modern homes are boxes with no character at all. Council should specify that if they (traditional beach shacks) are demolished, the design for replacement should be submitted and approved to ensure they are in keeping with the character of the area.
I feel that developers have no idea of style or character. Dwellings are all much the same, built quickly and cheaply and with flat roofs which I find far from aesthetic. Australia is losing its history fast.
MARLENE HOSKIN, YANDINA
Beach shacks not ‘heritage’
Beach shacks as heritage buildings? Utter nonsense and emotional nostalgia.
Must they also have outside toilets and narrow chimneys to match the 19th and 20th century?
Demolish them all and bring the replacement buildings into the 21st century and open your dreamy eyes to reality.
MALCOLM, PELICAN WATERS
Gladys has ‘lost control’ of COVID battle
Liberal Premier Gladys Berejiklian, now that she has lost control of the COVID-19 pandemic, is under extreme pressure from Scott Morrison and his self-interested business supporters, to unlock NSW when 70 per cent of people aged over 16 are vaccinated, regardless of weather the hospitals are already full of dying patients.
With a Federal election due by early next year, it will be political death for the Federal Coalition to still have Liberal NSW locked down while trying to fight an election based on Slo-Mo’s mishandling of the biggest civil crisis since the Depression.
Their excuse for advocating for an end to lockdowns because it is impossible to control the Delta variant, is a load of codswallop, as Qld and WA seem to manage it quite well.
Even Victoria is bringing their outbreaks under control. Who would you back in an election based on the “zero” case results achieved by the Labor states. I’ll back Anna anytime.
ALAN WARD, BUDERIM
Our checklist to freedom
In response to the feedback sought about this topic my thoughts are:
- Vaccination level of two vaccine shots by a date needs to be set and the vaccinations need to have been available.
- Vaccine availability has been a huge limitation on vaccinations.
- Booster vaccines ought to be available ASAP, but a new vaccine to the one administered previously.
- All essential staff ought to be given boosters ASAP.
- Students to be vaccinated — vaccine requirement or mask wearing for students.
- Businesses must be permitted to be open — restrictions need to be limited to level of vaccination/mask wearing.
- Use retired nurses to administer vaccines.
- Quarantine all international travellers in special facilities when they are available.
GRAHAM MOSS
Jane’s right: we must get tough on unjabbed
Jane Stephens is absolutely right in her “carrot and stick” column, with regard to getting tough on the unjabbed.
My sympathies and admiration go out to the healthcare workers who put their own health and that of their families at risk, to treat the people who have become infected.
I also feel very sad for the people who have already waited for months to get an appointment at the hospital, and are told that it will be a year or more before they can be seen, due to COVID.
I recently needed to briefly visit Sunshine Plaza, and I do not think it’s an exaggeration to say that only about 50 per cent of people were wearing masks, and many of those who did have them were wearing them under their chins, so they were useless.
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There was no hint of social distancing and I didn’t see anyone using the QR code. Security personnel were strolling around, but I did not see them challenge anyone.
If we get an infected person here on the Sunshine Coast, we could very well end up in the same situation as the southern states, and we will all be the losers, due to those people who choose to believe the scaremongers rather than the real experts, or are just so egotistical that they believe rules are for other people, not superior beings such as themselves.
MARGARET, BUDERIM
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