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- Read the story: Prominent Australia Post facility to close
Robyn Deane, Nambour: So, sadly Nambour is to lose another service with the closing of the Nambour Delivery Centre, also known as the Australia Post Sunshine Coast Business Centre. I regularly visit the post office, in fact I was only there yesterday to send a parcel off to a granddaughter because it is so much more accessible than the one in town.
If Australia Post is going to provide a replacement, hopefully they will have accessibility at the forefront of their planning as that is a key requirement for many of us who still use the postal service.
Tom Swann, Currimundi: I wonder if this building could be repurposed as dormitory accommodation for the homeless? While hardly ideal, a dormitory has to be superior to sleeping under bridges, in cars or in tents in the bush. The soon to be redundant mail centre could make ideal temporary accommodation while proper social housing is built. This is perhaps a decent temporary use of this building.
Wendy-Joy Bartrim: What happens when mail/parcels can’t be delivered to our house? We have to drive to Caloundra to pick up parcels?
Adele Barnes-Cook: I get that the Australia Post mail sorting has probably outgrown the current buildings on the site. This will be yet another big loss to the greater Nambour community if the business hub shopfront part goes and jobs from the area. Some local people won’t be able to commute to the new centre.
Is there a way to keep the centre and just make it a secondary mail centre for the Sunshine Coast?
Also, I’m not looking forward to picking any parcels up from Caloundra on the odd time our postie decides to take them back to the mail centre instead of our local post office.
Katelyn Bradford: What about all the PO boxes?
Sharon Bell: Why can’t they have two hubs with the growing population? It’s unfair to target Nambour because nearly everything is leaving Nambour. I use this to post big parcels because it’s close to where I live. I am not going to Caloundra to pick up a parcel. I just hope they replace it with another post office because Nambour needs two not one.
- Read the story: Property demolitions underway for road upgrade
Kent Hartshorn: When dwellings/buildings are being demolished for either roadworks or a new structure, the material goes to landfill. If council is serious about recycling and limiting the amount going to landfill, surely it should be mandatory to recycle the materials.
- Read the story: Police investigate vandal attack at council park
Shane Gordon: Good to see adult crime, adult time and tougher laws working.
Aimee Clark: I watched a grown man doing small skids on front lawns all the way down a street the other day on his hotted-up e-bike. It’s not always kids that do this crap.
Patricia Edwards: If they are caught, all costs plus make them do repairs from their own pockets.
Sue Blakey: Their families must be proud.
- Read the story: Hundreds of new trees to bolster wildlife corridor
Ally Be: Will help after all the other wildlife ‘corridors’ have been bulldozed. Thank you.
Kate Miller: Keep going, every plant helps.
- Read the story: Big win for Coast grassroots music festival
Gail Podberscek: This just shows how our region thrives on its individuality. It’s community connections and contribution, and a sense of generosity and sharing. It’s not about ‘entertainment’ that takes out what we all appreciate so much about our region. Congratulations!
- Read the story: New dog access rules locked in
Tina Deakin, Bulcock Beach: I have very strong views on dogs. For starters, there are too many dogs wherever I go.
I live in a resort in Bulcock Beach, Caloundra and am sick to death seeing dogs walking through our resort, going out the side door and shitting and pissing on the footpath right in front of our unit and right beside a very popular restaurant. These owners (a lot of them) don’t even take their dogs for a walk down along the front.
Now that the legislation has changed for dogs in units, it has gotten completely out of control. Now we have new owners buying units in the complex on the proviso that they bring their two dogs before they sign a contract. Oh, and by the way, if you see someone going down the road with a pram, and you look to see if it has a baby in it, half the time there is a dog in it. I find this totally pathetic – are people that insecure that this has to be their support system?
Don’t get me started on the markets! The council even advertises “bring your dogs”! And people do, they bring them in droves. I am sick to death of trying to dodge dogs and their business at the markets and trying not to trip over their leads or get tangled in them. In fact, I will not go to the markets now for this reason.
- Challenging peer pressure
Gary Reynolds, Peregian Springs: While the Federal Government is rightly cracking down on online influencers harming our young people, there’s a stronger force shaping children every day – peer pressure.
As a former teacher, I’ve seen the pattern. It rarely looks like a “bad kid” leading another astray.
The real danger is quieter: it’s self‑erasure. It’s a child deciding that having an opinion risks rejection because fitting in requires them to shrink. This shift happens long before adolescence. The window for shaping how children think, not just what they know, is between six and 12.
After that, their friends become the loudest voices in the room. That’s why the role of parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles – the whole village – matters more than ever. Not to lecture. Not to hover. But to equip.
Kids don’t need another reminder to “be yourself”. They can recite it. What they need are mental frameworks that help them recognise when their thinking is being hijacked. Give them that and they start spotting the pattern. They start saying “no”. They stay whole.
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