Can I infer from his latest comments that education is a waste of time and he has forgotten that he is only an "Australian" by dint of generations of migrants?

Seriously, he has achieved the impossible.   He makes Pauline Hanson sound like an intellectual.

George Harley 

Mount Isa

As we await to see if Ergon Energy’s proposed new tariffs are approved by the energy regulator, sending summer power costs surging again, people are looking for reliable and affordable power, as a key to household and business budgets in the future.

People expect the Queensland Government to provide reliable, affordable power. 

I worry that the idea that Queensland could achieve a target of 50 per cent of electricity generated by renewable energy by 2030 is more about ideology, than delivering cost effective power to Queenslanders. 

Such a target would again drive up electricity prices for households and businesses.

It would also destroy the value of most of the electricity assets held by the Queensland government. This is threatening the viability of irrigated agriculture across Queensland, in sugar, horticulture and other food production, risking turning this pillar of our economy into a stump.

We need a responsible, practical low – cost mix of solutions, that deliver positive outcomes for the budget bottom lines of households, business and agriculture.

Queensland could turn to the next generation of coal-fired power stations to generate more domestic electricity.

It is well within the bounds of reason to look at new technology that could use coal to generate electricity with a 27 plus per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions.

Ultra-supercritical power plants operate at higher temperatures and pressures to generate steam and turn turbines more efficiently and are currently in use and more being established around the world.

We’ve got the feedstock, coal, to drive economies to create good paying jobs and develop Queensland, while maintaining our high employment opportunities for Workers in the coal mining sector.

This reliable and affordable power option is well worth consideration in our low-cost mix of solutions.

Kerry Latter

CEO, CANEGROWERS Mackay

LNP leader Tim Nicholls has been vocal in telling the government to scrap an annual indexation policy applied to some fees and charges, including car registration.

The trouble for Mr Nicholls is that the indexation policy he attacks is the one he implemented when he was Campbell Newman's Treasurer in the former government.

It’s in black and white for all to see in his Budget papers.

Not content with being lazy and negative, Mr Nicholls and the LNP now have amnesia.

They are calling for the scrapping of a policy they were quite happy with in government. Instead of baseless attacks on the Palaszczuk Government, Mr Nicholls should be explaining to Queenslanders his policy on asset sales.

It is now eight months since he said he would reveal his position “in due course”. 

We all know he still wants to sell income-generating state assets.

However he just isn’t prepared to be honest with Queenslanders. 

Mr Nicholls should also try explaining to Queenslanders how he plans to fill the $8 billion budget black hole he has dug himself by opposing key revenue measures of the government. Until he explains that, no promise he makes is funded and no promise he makes can be believed.​ 

Curtis Pitt

Treasurer of Queensland