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Hello Readers

Welcome to Issue 88.

Happy Easter from the team at The LOCAL.

This Issue not only covers Easter, but also Anzac Day which is fast approaching. We interview George Franklin, a Vietnam War veteran and the president of the Bribie Island RSL sub branch, who along with his team provide support to the many veterans in our region.

Mazlin Park at Beachmere has been upgraded, bringing a new vibe to the area.

Local breast cancer survivors are off to New Zealand this month for the International Dragon Boat Festival. Grace Lutheran College Caboolture campus chaplain Lachlan McLean and some students ‘lose the locks’ for a good cause. Lachlan not only shaved his head, but also removed his trademark beard.

As usual we cover a wide variety of local issues, while showcasing our local businesses. It is our local businesses who make this publication possible so please support them.

Until next month

Warm regards

Belinda

What is the end game?

I believe the average Australian can’t wait for the upcoming ‘Voice Referendum’ to vote NO and finally put this BS to rest.

Fifty-odd years ago under the Holt Liberal government, 90% of Australians voted to remove ‘race’ from the constitution, putting indigenous Australian people on the same legal footing as all other Australians, allowing them to be counted in the Australian population.

It was a momentous shift towards equality!

Now, half a century later, the Albanese Labour government wants to insert ‘race’ back into the constitution. We all need to ask – what is the end game here?

We are all Australians and should share the same government and laws. Black or white, the government is voted in to act for ALL Australians irrespective of race and colour. WE ALREADY HAVE A PARLIAMENT THAT REPRESENTS ALL AUSTRALIANS.

R Hansen Bongaree

Are they worth the true cost?

The sum stated by the government to finance these nuclear submarines is $368 billion. Journalists have called this an ‘eyewatering amount’, which I totally agree.

However, can your readers actually visualise this sum?

So, how much is a billion? Just how much is a billion dollars? It is a huge amount of money.

To demonstrate just how much a billion dollars is I have done some calculations as follows: -

To make it more understandable, I have converted dollars to seconds as everyone knows just how long a second lasts in time.

One billion is 1000 million or 1,000,000,000 seconds.

There are 60 seconds in a minute. 3600 seconds in an hour.

86,400 seconds in a day and 31,536,000 in a year.

Divide 1,000,000,000 by 31,536,000 comes out at 31.71 years.

So, if we multiply 31.71 years (for one billion) by 368 that equals 11,665 years!! Now can you see why $368 billion is an ‘eyewatering amount’.

K Greenaway