Paul Brecht, Evans Head
This is a letter to all Queenslanders who visit Byron Shire and to those who are more worried about their bank accounts than their children’s children’s future.
Shame on you for voting for the Morrison-led coalition. What part of environmental rape of our planet don’t you understand?
I lived in Queensland’s deep north when the place was ruled by Jo the Peanut King; he wanted to secede from Australia and after the last election process they should’ve.
It was then, and still is, a police state; just the names of rulers have changed – the song remains the same.
Yes, it’s a lot warmer in winter up there, and what rainforests remain are great, and the humpback whales love it too; but that’s about it for me (sorry, Mandy). I hope you still talk to me after this letter, sis.
Hi Paul – I lived there as well through Jo’s
reign. Martial Law was called & many of
us were shunted into paddy-wagons. I’ve
been trying to find out if that implemented
‘martial law’ is still in place – it was, it’s
said, back when the Jo for PM frightened
the hell out of the country.
QLD’s vote count was sickening. Lateral
thinking & so many were too lazy to get
out of their own way. The Labor Premier
didn’t help & Shorten didn’t take a stand
either… pretty wimpy. People power’s
all we’ve got. There are ways…
What sanctimonious nonsense. Because some people do not agree with the approach of addressing climate change at both the supply and the demand side you propose they are unwelcome in the Byron Shire. Beyond commendable but tokenistic efforts like the Elements train there is little particularly energy efficient about the way its residents and industry uses energy. The census shows Byron Shire rates of car ownership and are similar to those across QLD. Unlike QLD the Shire does not mandate higher energy ratings for new buildings. It makes the greater part of its income from tourism and agriculture – both high energy industries. All of that is understandable for geographic and demographic reasons but it hardly places people in the Byron Shire in a position to lecture others on how we should go about reducing Australian and world-wide energy consumption.
QLDers and others voted for Morrison because with good reason they were not persuaded by Labor’s complex and inequitable policies, and because they reacted to the hypocrisy of green sloganeering and demonstrations like the anti-Adani protestors with time on their hands driving thousand of kilometres to give patronising lectures to a hard working people in mining areas. Unless people in the Greens and Labor-left take responsibility and stop blaming others for their failed strategies and policies, and unless they learn how to communicate with blue-collar workers and with older people Mr Morrison can look forward to more terms as Australia’s daggiest PM.