Mercury (Hobart)

Walk into opposition?

- Sabine Borgis Rosetta Pat Murray New Norfolk STANCE: White and Jim Chalmers at Labor conference, Burnie. Rodney Quinn Bellerive

SO Rebecca White espouses that Labor will not work with the Greens in a potential Labor government. Does she seriously expect voters to believe that if it takes two (or more) Greens seats to get them over the line that they would walk away, back into opposition? And who gave Labor the right to subvert the will of the Tasmanian voters in voting Green anyway? This stands to be another signature policy to be jettisoned when it suits, like the pokies. have tried contacting the NBN Co with no luck and Telstra passes the buck back to NBN Co. What happens when Telstra finally cuts the copper wire phone line. Will we be left with no home phone and no internet? Anyone got an answer? great Allied powers that defeated Nazi Germany, only Britain had the moral strength to declare war on Germany — the Soviet Union was a quasi-ally of Germany until attacked; and the US waited until Hitler declared war before becoming a formal belligeren­t. The British succeeded in their quest. Taylor again: “No English soldier who rode with the tanks into liberated Belgium or saw the German murder camps at Dachau or Buchenwald could doubt that the war had been a noble crusade. The British (Taylor uses the word British to include Dominions and Empire) were the only people who went through both world wars from beginning to end. Yet they remained a peaceful and civilised people, tolerant, patient and generous.” As Churchill expressed it: In War, Resolution; in Defeat, Defiance; in Victory, Magnanimit­y; in Peace, Goodwill.

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