PM IS THE PROBLEM
The Federal government, besides ignoring the important issue of environment degradation, places the blame for economic insecurity on migrants and welfare recipients.
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This is hard to fathom.
The root cause of today's inequality is government prejudice towards the wealthy and private sector with little or no support for the not so well-off.
No Malcolm, the problem is you.
The wealthy have no difficulty in paying their bills.
It is the migrants, welfare recipients and lower income families that are missing out.
And for you to suggest otherwise is ludicrous.
John Macleod, Berry
PLAYING WITH FIRE
Regarding the hazard reduction burns occurring at the moment, I think it feasible to look at Aboriginal land management and see how things “measure up”.
If one cares to consult earlier sources than Rhys Jones, there is to be found eyewitness accounts of Aboriginal “fire-stick farming” from early explorers, which will lead one to the inescapable conclusion that the unique ecology in Australia has developed, through liberal application of the “fire-stick”, with the help of humans over the millennia (long before white settlement).
These hazard reduction burns reduce fuel loads and mitigate the risk of the megafires we have seen in recent years across the globe as a result of increased fuel loads in natural areas.
We need, perhaps, to encourage universities and government (when they aren’t busily taking money off the CSIRO) to inject money into studying the role of anthropogenic fire in ecology, given the evidence of widespread fire practice by indigenous peoples worldwide, and ask the questions how, why, and when different peoples practiced fire management over the ages.
Matthew Nicholson, Avondale
BLOOD BOILING
It makes one's blood boil to read more about these so-called pollies getting more income and tax breaks.
No wonder the PM is not on the side of the lowly paid or the pensioners.
This Prime Minister is not for the workers of this country, he his for the bosses of big business.
The ones on a very high income, the CEO's of corporate banks and the top end of town.
When will this PM listen to us the voters?
Never. That's my answer.
We pay for everything, even their wages, but that doesn't seem to be enough.
They still want more.
Lawrence Wren, Fairy Meadow
DAMAGE REMAINS
We have to be careful here, coming up to July, as I see it the coalition's plan is jobs paying less than the minimum wage for young people .
At $4 an hour plus newstart, there is no jobs plan.
There never was whilst tech college continues to be cut.
And as for the tax system, all Scott Morrison did was close a few small loopholes.
There are still a lot of companies getting away with what they do.
And once again people earning under $80,000 are getting nothing but cuts.
The damage they claim they’re trying to fix has not been fixed .
Matty Ryan, Fairy Meadow
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