Doubt now surrounding water
Who is going to have the intestinal fortitude to inquire into the Murray-Darling situation?
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There must be collusion between people in power to enable these things to happen – and someone must know what is going on.
And where has the Minister for Agriculture been during all this time?
Who allowed the basic premise of the MDWB (returning water to the environment) to be hijacked?
Who stopped the authorisation of Jamie Morgan’s proposed enquiry?
Who turned a blind eye to road changes in that shire council area?
Who never saw huge water storages (holding more than could be legally taken) being built on one property?
Who turned a blind eye to “broken” metering systems?
And who is benefiting from this ?
It is becoming pretty obvious that once we elect them, the majority of politicians treat us with contempt and think we have no right to query their actions, decisions etc.
This is about water, without which we do not survive.
So, I ask again: Who is going to have the guts to stand up and be counted?
Betty Brady, Griffith
We are so far behind
With a population of 80 million and massive heavy industry, Germany still has considerable coal reserves. Yet they recently hit 85 per cent energy from renewables. Why? Because they are well-educated, well-organised and financially astute. They also understand the importance of clean water and clean air to food production, health and the environment. And they understand the importance of fairness and equitable living costs for the entire population. Meanwhile, our leaders are campaigning for fracking and coal mining, exporting our gas to other nations yet our gas and energy prices continue to soar.
Australian politicians are backing a dead horse. Their ignorance and conformity are an embarrassment. Major institutions and governments the world over are divesting from coal and fossil fuels. Stock prices are falling. Insurance companies are factoring in climate disasters. It took 8 billion years for the surface of the earth to become habitable for mammals, 8 billion years for all those gases and plant materials to be locked into the earth’s surface. Within 200 years we are releasing them back into the atmosphere.
Neither we, nor our leaders, can continue to plead ignorance. We have a responsibility to those who live after us.
Maggie Morgan, Northcote
Pot calling the kettle "aggressive"
A Chinese intelligence surveillance ship is observing joint Australian-American “war games”. Our defence officials proclaim that act “unfriendly”, “provocative” and “aggressive”.
From dictionary.com: unfriendly: hostile; antagonistic provocative: tending or serving to provoke (anger, enrage, arouse); inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing aggressive: characterised by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing.
From these definitions, I’d expect many of Australia’s international and domestic policies to be deemed unfriendly, provocative, and aggressive! For example, our participation in wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria; our treatment of asylum seekers; our treatment of the Indigenous people, our relationship with our environment and finite resources.
Federal parliament's Question Time epitomises verbal unfriendliness, provocation, and aggression. Australian society appears rife with unfriendliness, provocation, and aggression ... yet how quick we are to proclaim others - in this case, the Chinese – “unfriendly”, “provocative” and “aggressive”! Methinks we protest too much!