The Northern Rivers Times
March 31, 2022
12 LETTERS & OPINIONS
LETTERS, FEEDBACK AND OPINION
COALITION ATTACKS ABC It really makes one’s day to know that when one aims at a certain target, one hits that target dead centre. Oh, the desperate squeals of the extreme right are becoming more shrill and deafening by the day. These infantile ramblings of the ridiculous right do not even warrant a
FAILURE TO PROTECT Our government has one overarching duty: to protect our population. The last years have shown Scott Morrison, Barnaby Joyce, Dominic Perrottet and Kevin Hogan failing again and again to adequately protect us in our hours of need, instead leaving the dangerous and essential work of keeping us alive and protected to unpaid volunteers and independent community services. They have been ignoring warnings of scientists, high-ranking emergency services leaders, doctors, nurses and even defencepersonnel to better prepare our exposed, sun-burnt country for the increasing toll of ever-worsening natural disasters, be that bush-
berated by these poor misguided soles is like being lectured on quantum physics by Fred Flintstone. And there’s more bad news for the rightist antitheir constant bleating taxpayer funding. Upon coming to Govt., the Labor Party has pledged to restore punitive and to protect both the any future ideological cuts and any political interference by granting the public broadcasters
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2014, with an ongoing reduction to base funding of $106m per year by told Senate estimates. In a world of right-wing misinformation and outright lies Australians are relying now more than ever on honest and quality news reporting, emergency broadcasting and great documentaries that tell Australian stories. In the unlikely event elected, they will double down on what Tony Abbott set in motion when he blatantly and infamously lied about no or SBS. that immediately occurred under his Govt. in the 2014 budget. Keith Duncan Pimlico FLOODS, FIRE, RESCUE After such catastrophic that maybe government could supply the SES with army ducks that could get around in such drastic situations rather than Joe public in tinnies who done a fabulous job regardless. Just a thought
LESSONS FROM HISTORY No one who lived in England in the 1930’s, or who has since then considered the sequence of events that led to in 1939, would fail to recognise a similar pattern evolving in Europe today. Both dramas began with an autocratic leader of a country smarting from the loss of a former empire, launching an unprovoked attack on its neighbor while the rest of the world considered that their interests would best be served by maintaining trading links instead of getting involved in the problems of other countries. In place of Germany you can today substitute Hitler, and the Ukraine in In both cases we have a once imperial power recapturing lost territory and, to do so, developing high-tech weapons to also have our Neville
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think it best to sit back hoping it will sort it itself out. It was referred to then as “appeasement”. More frightening still the position occupied by Japan in 1939 has more powerful nation, for territorial expansion throughout its sphere our trade links with this nation are too important for us to risk losing them! I was a child during
party are as desperate as throwing round money like confetti to get themselves re-elected especially in Queensland where they won last time. The only thing Queenslanders must understand it was the Labor state government that protected them from covid 19 had they had a liberal state government they would have been even more overwhelmed with covid. It was also us through the global
and a British soldier after it (stationed at one time alongside the concentration camp at Belsen). I was too old for Vietnam, but I remember a song from then which will echo down the ages: “They’ve gone to graveyards everyone
the liberal national party were nowhere to be scene till after the rain and emergency was over let’s hope Queenslanders can see the forest for the trees this time and realise their far better to off under a labour federal government and
learn?“ Rev’d Dr. John Tyman Murwillumbah
and manufacturing and infrastructure in projects in line with the state labour government time for change and a united Australia again division
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to climate change as the world’s largest coalexporter. It’s time. Dr Ulf Steinvorth Dunoon
PUTIN There are two honorable things he can now do. I leave it to the Pimlico and Yamba scribes to full your pages with their rhetoric in response, BUT, please leave space for others with their own opinions. Peter WALTERS Ballina
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critical to a healthy democracy with only 19% disagreeing. There have been $526m in cuts to the
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safe housing projects have been dismantled, defunded and their recommendations buried to avoid discussing the hot topics, including climate change, hospital funding and housing affordability, instead focusing on supporting ongoing privately owned billion-dollar fossil fuel mining projects to worsen our already
