For me it has not worried me much.

A lot of small towns through out Queensland and also many other states have one bridge (if required).

There has been no congestion on the Sir James Foots bridge formerly know as the Grace Street Bridge or commonly know as the big bridge.

On May 15m 2019 the Isa Street bridged closed for six month as announced in the North West Star

Have we missed it:

has it impacted on business, going to work,school attendance,ambulance service??

In a community that is quickly become a desert bowl with unclean streets, crime, home invasions could we have asked to funding for other community activities?

Don't get me wrong I personally have no view either way on the bridge as it does not impact on me.

Yes I have made a few wrong turns on the way back from the Irish, but that is no worries - just old age.

I would like to know and honest answers - not it saves me five mins, or i need to leave five mins early but have they truly impacted on your life

Lets have a sensible discussion and debate with no personal attacks or our Councillors abusing people for having a different view than them.

Lesley-Ann Peterson,

Mount Isa

Every orthodoxy needs a heretic, and on the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people it may as well be me.

Yes, we should give special recognition to ATSIs because they are unique.

They are the only peoples of Australia who have been dispossessed.

But if we recognise them by way of some consultative body which has power, then we will create a third chamber of Parliament from which most of Australia is excluded.

That's unacceptable.

If such a body has no power and is purely advisory, however, then it can and will be ignored, so ATSIs go back at square one.

That is unacceptable too.

The obvious thing to do is to give ATSIs their own Federal electoral rolls and their own reserved seats in both existing chambers of Federal Parliament.

This has worked well for years and years in New Zealand, and we don't need a referendum for it.

Grant Agnew,

Coopers Plains

On the news Mount Isa and Cloncurry collectively spends around $30 million a year on the pokies

Brett Peterson Whilst the headline is a grab and sounds an excessive amount of money, it is a touch over $1395.00 per person per year and no one has included visitors, traveling salespeople and FIFO workers that visit and work in the area

Kaileana Lund Well pokies would go broke waiting for me to spend that. Even when I lived in Cloncurry and went to Mount Isa I never bothered playing them

Tami Neundorf Shorter Not all residents get a pay packet from the mines - I don't spend a cent on pokies.....have no interest whatsoever in playing the mind numbing machines

Lenore Saunders And whinge they can't afford to go anywhere cause it's too dear.

Jamie Laxton None of them over here in WA..... And it's a great thing

Frances Gray Nothing else to do!

Anne Stanke No shoes on the children's feet!!

Remtlas Nevets Before the pokies, Isans figured in the squillions spent on the TAB.