Stop the spending spree

I ACKNOWLEDGE that helping countries less fortunate than our own is commendable, but it is time the spend, spend, spend epidemic by this Federal Government was reined in.

Over the past few weeks alone Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has handed out $90m to an education project after receiving a tweet from a singer (Rihanna), $110m to Iraq, $10m to Yemen and $240m to Afghanistan.

The full extent of the rampant philanthropic mindset of this government is not made available to the mere public on the appropriate website.

Perhaps, if it was, we would then be able to see the way our finances are being treated like a game of Monopoly.

We are $600 billion in debt already. That is an interest bill of about $12.6b per year.

Do the parliamentarians realise they were actually elected and took an oath to serve the people of Australia?

We have farmers in serious drought who are made to do a backflip with a double pike through a barbed wire hoop just to apply for a reduced interest loan so they can stay on the farm to produce food to feed us.

We have tens of thousands living on the street, and pensioners and working families living below the poverty line, yet we can hand out money at the request of a tweet?

Being a now former coalition voter I can assure those in this government that, unless there is one hell of a change of direction in the way things are being run, that the vast majority of them will be looking for new jobs come the next election as the groundswell is more than they could even imagine. Barry Bundy, Clifton Beach