With our suburb Camooweal located 188 kilometres to the North West, Mount Isa has one of the longest main streets in the world.

Statistically, we are up there with being one of the lowest funded council's in Queensland for NDRRA funding, with $12.7 million brought in between 2014 to 2018 financial years.

Mount Isa City Council have stated that they have a 100% success rate with claiming NDRRA funding and that "less funding equates to less damage sustained to the region".

I think it's interesting that all our neighbouring shires whose population is very much lower than Mount Isa have sustained ten of millions more damage than Mount Isa.

Cloncurry for instance has received $39.5 million in NDRRA grant funding and the list just goes on.

Mount Isa City Council should try and find out the formula to Carpentaria Shire Council's success as they have brought in a whopping $143M for the same time period and clearly out performing Mount Isa City Council.

Statistics taken from the NDRRA Annual Reports from 2014 to 2018.

Danielle Slade,

Mount Isa

We are dismayed at the lack of focus on rural health issues in the election debate and the health needs of over 7 million people were totally ignored

Our Alliance represents 37 health peak member organisations - all of which have a deep concern for the unacceptable health outcomes experienced by people living in rural, regional and remote Australia.

Why is it that we have 28% of the population experiencing 1.3 times the total burden of disease and yet successive governments don't give it priority and they certainly didn't in yesterday's national debate. Where was the focus on rural health?

Indigenous health, access to health care, research and the need for a new National Rural Health Strategy are critical areas for an incoming government to address.

"The situation is now reaching crisis point. We just don't have sufficient workers in rural and particularly remote areas to meet the health needs of the population. People are dying as a result.

National Rural Health Alliance CEO Mark Diamond

In this election campaign, it's important to remember that we are in a war.

Tony Abbott took us into it in 2014 when he sent a few pilots to Iraq.

At the time he publicly admitted that this would cost over $400-million each year, every year, year in and year out.

Since then we have greatly increased our contribution and gone to war in Syria as well. Inflation has occurred in that time too. So is the cost of this war up to one billion dollars every year yet?

It's important to know, because Scott Morrison keeps telling us that we can't afford this, that or the other, although we can afford tax cuts.

We can also afford this war which does not concern us but which has been brought to us by the Liberals for five years now.

We have spent at least two billion dollars on it, perhaps four or five billion, and have gained nothing for our trouble. And it is a war which will profit us nothing in the future, even if we somehow manage to come out of it on some winning side or other.

As far as the Liberals are concerned, we can just throw away all that money and burn it.

Grant Agnew, Coopers Plains