Bureaucratic decisions

AGAIN we see a bureaucratic decision finally nailing down the coffin for the Nullinga dam construction and the future economic progress of FNQ and indeed Australia as a whole.

Just imagine if these same bureaucratic and so called environmental guidelines were in place and existed previously.

Australia would not have any road or rail crossings on the Great Dividing Range, would not have the Snowy Mountain hydro project with the clean/green hydro power that is providing a massive portion of the electricity into our energy grid. We would not have the huge Murray irrigation area areas, said to be the “food bowl of Australia”, providing so much employment and valuable export trade.

Perhaps the plans for the Sydney Harbour Bridge might at last finally be approved and efforts under way to find the necessary finance for its construction. It is very unlikely the railway line and road connecting Brisbane to Cairns will have been built as when being considered there would be no way it would “stack up financially and provide a return on investment”. All those Australian projects, and countless others, went ahead as the “elected politicians“made common sense decisions for the advancement of our nation.

They instructed the necessary executives and engineers, who were also in those positions because their mindset, training and endeavour, was to get the job done and achieve the best results for Australia and future generations.

Seemingly the present attitude of many politicians is to find excuses and reasons not to do so as it could upset some unelected minority mob or overseas interests, then pass the buck on to bureaucrats.

Come on all of you federal, state and local elected representatives, believe in the future of our nation, emulate the “founding fathers” and leaders of this once great nation. Accept responsibility to make the necessary power and water infrastructure decisions.

Then begin that construction which those who elected you entrusted you to progress. Norman Whitney, Glen Boughton