Category: Opinion

In today’s Opinion Piece, Crispin Hull takes a close look at the post-apocalyptic need for Labor to saddle up…

In today’s Opinion Piece, Crispin Hull takes a close look at the Federal response to our national vaccination crisis…

Douglas Shire Sustainability Group (DSSG) responds to Douglas Shire Council Draft Foreshore Management Plans

In today’s Opinion Piece, Crispin Hull takes a close look at the sad truth of the state of the reef…

In today’s Opinion Piece, Crispin Hull takes a close look at the current impact of high immigration, and of the implications of the Christian Porter defamation case.

❝…This week’s failure of Queensland’s Callide coal-fired power station which blacked out 500,000 homes, businesses, hospitals, emergency services etc is just another example of the lack of future for fossil energy. And BTW renewables bailed out the grid.❞

❝…This pandemic is changing a lot of thinking and exposing the folly of earlier thinking…..❞

Like many others, DSSG is disappointed that the situation has resulted in Douglas Shire Council purchasing the ferry – at considerable cost to ratepayers and possibly visitors. 

❝…This is a really frustratingly dumb Budget on several counts: population, housing, tax, energy, and childcare…..❞

“We don’t know if this is a fossil-fuelled system, we don’t know how it will be distributed, we don’t know who will own the system, or pay for the power generated – will it connect to the national grid?”