How does our government work?
Politicians are vying for popularity to win them elections.
What do they really do for us? There is no vision for our better future. We do not get more dams, more rail lines, more roads or the things that would make Queensland great again. What we see are little touch ups, with with lots of signage and lots of people and not much working and machines doing little.
We have to use paper straws that collapse and don’t work properly. We can’t have the cheap shopping bags. The reusable bag manufacturers must be really happy.
We are not allowed to dig dams on our rural properties. We are not allowed to extend our homes. Property developers have to pay $150,000 in red tape fees plus additional requirements for every house and land package they produce. Government is living off our borrowings, people who purchase a new home have to borrow much more.
The Qld Labor government is going to spend $64.806 billion this year. There should have been big dams on all the major rivers like the Albert, the Logan river, the Mary River and all the others.
The northern rivers could be turned inland to water proof central and Southern Queensland and make that land much more productive. Under Labor and LNP this will never happen. Labor and LNP always give innmto the fanatics so they don’t have to do anything.
Now we have China spending billions of dollars in Africa developing iron ore mines so they don’t have to buy Australian iron ore. In three years time Australian iron ore mines will close or come close to closing. If a railway line was built from the iron ore coast to the Queensland metallurgical coal fields, Australia could be producing the cheapest steel in the world.
Prime Minister Paul Keating bought a piggery for $200,000 and sold it to an Indonesian for $16 million and gave the Indonesian army an army training base in Arnhem Land Northern Territory.
The Indonesian Army had ship loads of military and were on their way to invade Australia.
We were lucky. The new Prime Minister John Howard told the Indonesians to leave and when they refused he sent in the SAS. The Indonesians backed down and Australia signed a defence treaty with the USA.
Paul Keating also introduced the Partnership for Development program that gave all the government orders to the big multinational computer companies who were supposed to use local companies to make computers. He decimated the then local computer industry.
This is how government in Australia works.
Trevor Croll,
Buccan.
