YOUR SAY: There is damage and destruction for those involved in strip clubs

She opened up to me during that period, the degradation of the strip club lifestyle and how it tortured her and brought on further despair. Yes, she wanted to do it as she needed money for her habit but in the depths of her, it degraded her and added to the burden of her emotional wounds.

I know first hand the true fallout, the true cost to a community of a strip club. Do not allow this type of venue to trap vulnerable women in our beautiful city and add to the burden of those who will need future care as I have personally given in the past.

There is damage and destruction for those involved, no matter what the supporters may say.

Footnote: This beautiful girl in 1999 got onto a naltrexone study, where she was selected for the naltrexone operation and it was successful for her. She survived this life-threatening period of her life and through a drug rehabilitation program was offered a stable city council job which she holds to this day and now has a beautiful five-year-old daughter.

So the federal government is giving local councils more road funding, that is great news for the roads they are responsible for.

But having come back from a weekend trip to Melbourne, where there are roadworks everywhere, Melbourne drivers' complaints about the number of roadworks going on around them I find hysterical, especially considering we can't even get a bloody pothole fixed. Our roads here are dangerous and I can't count how many times I have seen drivers pass onto the other side of the road to avoid destroyed bits of bitumen.

With Christmas holiday time on us, accidents or worse yet deaths, are likely as the number of people coming here for their holidays increases.

Our local councils try to do the best they can but the state government is letting those of us who live in the North East down severely, we should be screaming at the current state government for their total lack of care.