The Queensland Government has announced plans to ban the use of helium balloons across Queensland.
Don't bother to check your calendar - it's not April the 1st.
Fair dinkum - the bureaucrats must have been let out of the looney bin to dream up this sort of idiotic stuff.
Fair dinkum - the bureaucrats must have been let out of the looney bin to dream up this sort of idiotic stuff.
We need fewer laws, not more laws, regulating every aspect of our daily lives.
This new proposed law banning helium balloons raises serious philosophical questions about how far governments should legitimately intrude into normal aspects of a modern society.
You only have to think back to the furore a few years ago when the Queensland government attempted to ban the feeding of dolphins at Tin Can Bay to see taxpayers' money being squandered on bureaucrats dreaming up hare-brained plans to turn ordinary people into criminals.
It was only Peter Beattie's intervention at the time which stopped this stupidity.
Come on Anna, are you for or against white balloons over Brisbane?
This new proposed law banning helium balloons raises serious philosophical questions about how far governments should legitimately intrude into normal aspects of a modern society.
You only have to think back to the furore a few years ago when the Queensland government attempted to ban the feeding of dolphins at Tin Can Bay to see taxpayers' money being squandered on bureaucrats dreaming up hare-brained plans to turn ordinary people into criminals.
It was only Peter Beattie's intervention at the time which stopped this stupidity.
Come on Anna, are you for or against white balloons over Brisbane?
