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- Read the story: Work set to start on seawall reconstruction
While I agree with Cr Terry Landsberg that works are necessary near the Navy Cadets site, I disagree with the suggestion that this will improve beach accessibility nearer Nelson Street.
The sandy beach from Nelson Street to the walkway at the end of Kitchener Street is, in my view, one of the best beaches on Golden Beach. Since the covering of the old asbestos and pumping of sand following the initial breakthrough over three years ago, the beach area there has been quite stable. Even during and after Cyclone Alfred hardly a ripple reached it.
As long as the large sand island in the middle remains, there is no risk to it. It has been used very well for set-up by kite surfers and been particularly popular over the holidays as a lovely area for beach umbrellas and shade covers. Children enjoying swimming there.
Who wants a beach with concrete stepped wall and staircases? Surely the urgent need is not only nearer to the Navy Cadets site, but also further south towards Pelican Waters where the new breakthroughs are occurring.
Doug Bennett, Golden Beach
- Read the story: Decision on 150ha festival site could be taken off council
I’m absolutely against this development, mainly because of congestion on the Bruce Highway and no public transport available to the site.
It’s impossible now at peak times to drive on the highway.
The Sunshine Coast does not need this type of development .
Peter McNeil, Buderim
- Read the story: Appeal for action along edge-of-town road
The council should never have allowed itself to subvert the Planning Scheme to approve Stockland’s Halcyon retirement village – apparently without even conditioning a controlled pedestrian crossing so residents can safely access the bowls and tennis clubs opposite.
Some long-term Yandina residents may aspire to retiring locally in a gated citadel in the very close company of several hundred like-minded others, and some may even be able to afford this offering, but it does not come with any of the aged care facilities that they may expect or require.
Peter Baulch, North Arm
- Read the story: Tide of concern rises over island split
Just leave it. The ocean will only reclaim it.
As for cargo ships, they came up through the passage. I should know, my grandfather Thomas Tripcony ran the service; then there was Thomas Jnr, who ran one. These were large boats. One boat named Hilma was 54 feet long.
P.J. Tripcony, Clontarf Beach
It’s nature at its best or worst. It happened in the ’60s. How did Bribie Island come to exist? A big flood many moons ago. It made the creeks run so wild it eroded from the mainland and created the passage. Check the layout of the creeks and rivers from the Glass House Mountains.
It will change again. It has nothing to do with global warming and don’t blame the boats or the dredgings. The hydraulics of the Pacific Ocean is beyond anyone’s control.
Check the history before hysterical statements.
As Hanrahan said, “we’d all be rooned”.
Jack Vanderland, Bongaree
The Bribie Island split is a natural occurrence – some might even say it’s climate change.
The ocean’s incessant action (coastal erosion) occurs across the globe and has been doing so for thousands of years, impacting human development. Please do not endeavour to arrest this natural process with man-made endeavours. It will not work. In fact, as history shows us, it is more likely to exacerbate.
Planned retreat is the only option.
Greg Ingham, Tasmania
- Read the story: Cemetery that holds former premier closes to new burials
I’m from Western Australia and am literally packing my bags right now to visit my father’s grave in Caloundra Cemetery.
From what I know about him, which is actually very little, I believe his gravesite and tombstone were designed by him and I see he’s in excellent company.
He was not famous like some of the others sharing this place of rest, or “friedhof” as we say in Germany. Nevertheless, he has a very, very interesting story to tell, of global significance and contemporary relevance.
I know because I was working in Dusseldorf, Germany, as a designer when the Berlin Wall came down and I reunified my Lang family: east and west. Until a few months earlier, I hadn’t known they even existed.
Hans was one of five children. He spent his childhood in a small village near Potsdam and it looked idyllic. His father Adam was a dairy manager. All too soon, the German tanks turned their cannons towards the west and his life, along with his siblings and parents, blew apart and changed forever.
My father left this mortal coil at 69 years old and for me, right now, the most important thing is to visit the grave of a man I never knew, but who gave me a German passport through birthright. The Australian-born daughter of a German national.
I’ve got a postgraduate degree in public history from Murdoch University. It never occurred to me back then that I would use my own father’s tombstone as an artefact to put together the pieces of my own family history.
Erika Lang, WA
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