Reading your Backlash page (12 April) wherein the chief executive of the Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC) said that some two-bedroom emergency pods cost up to $500,000. ‘What poor value for money governments get for our taxpayer money’ it says there.
It made me think of the five billion dollars we’ve had to pay to France ’cos Scomo was lying – when is he starting to pay that back?
When will we charge the RBA boss, Philip Lowe, for encouraging people to take out a loan? Does he have shares in some banks, saying the interest rates won’t rise for a while? People are going through hell right now, trying to cope with ten interest rate rises!
While rent costs have gone through the roof and all other costs as well, people are struggling to put food on the table, to enable their kids to join a sports club etc, and are stressing out. Forty per cent more kids are now on mental health medications. Not mentioning all the people who’ve gone through fire and flood trauma.
So how can Albo and the Labor party follow Scomo’s mad path of wanting to put $368 billion of taxpayers’ money into the US/UK industrial war machine? Don’t we need this money here right now to look after our Indigenous people, build affordable housing, transition to renewables etc?
But the craziest issue right now is that $28 million of taxpayers’ money was spent in the last two years to turn our native forest into woodchips, or to burn forests for electricity in NSW. The Forestry Corporation is destroying the habitat of our unique wildlife and protectors are going through court right now, while the Environment Protection Authority is not doing their job. Some have risked their life 20+ metres above ground to stop the logging and are now getting charged for that. Who are the real criminals?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
