We need details of parties’ plans for future

I was reading my Coast Community News last week and came to Adam Crouch’s full page ad listing his achievements.

Pretty Beach Public School $40,00, Copacabana Public School $40,00 Erina Tennis Club $5,878 and what appears to be Fairhaven for an indecipherable amount.

Then I started thinking about the promises his boss (Premier Dominic Perrottet) is making for residents of Western Sydney.

Hundreds of millions for new/upgraded hospitals, millions for new/renovated schools, hundreds of millions for roadworks and upgrades and billions of dollars for new train lines.

While I am very happy for the lucky people out west I am just wondering why some of this largesse can’t be splashed about here on the Peninsula?

Then I received (Member for Gosford Liesl Tesch’s) flyer in my letterbox.

It sets out details of the $2.3M delivered to the local community since 2017.

That equates to about $500,000 a year.

That is very good and the recipients are very grateful, I am sure.

What I was really hoping for was details of her plans for the next four years.

Perhaps she could have a meeting with us (so we can) and let her know what we would like to see happen around here.

It is after all taxpayers’ money they are spending.

Email, Mar 5 Laurie Powell, Woy Woy heat and pollution.

Finally, right near the article end, to give us succour, there is talk to “enhance lifestyle” whilst “the manifesto supports improving environmental outcomes” (a bit of greenwashing snuck in?).

The environmental outcomes, however, will be supporting growth.

Renewables have a lifespan of 20yrs maximum, To my simple logic , blind Freddy could decide the most effective course of action, no more comments required.

The environment is now something to exploit, not protect.

To quote Joni Mitchell “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” – or soon will be in a suburb close by.

Email, Mar 4, 2023. Michael Chamley, The Entrance