Townsville Bulletin

Another bitter blow

- DEBRA GIBSON, Pinnacles.

SO our shop of chocolate is closing.

Max Brenner is just another casualty of our declining economy here in the North.

Our city cannot take much more of this madness. Madness like the millions of dollars put aside in the so called “NAIF”, the famously unused Northern Australia Infrastruc­ture Facility, which will now have to undergo a name change, as mercenary Labor politician­s ruthlessly nab these funds, for the south.

I mean, hey … the word Northern means north or are you changing the meaning of that?

We have the “cut off at the Sunshine Coast”, syndrome overtaking even the three Labor stooges here.

Maybe they are thinking of moving, south of course. Why stay here?

You are not representi­ng us anyway.

Our North is dying and that cannot be blamed on the drought.

We have no water solution, yet we all know that a dam on Hells Gates will deliver us massive benefits in food production, electricit­y and jobs.

The floodgates would be opened on more sugar cane farms to help deliver us naturally biodegrada­ble coffee cups and shopping bags, not just the reusable kind, but the real deal. More sugar for cheaper petrol, and most of all electricit­y. Brazil is doing it, why are we in the dark ages about this resource?

Yet the silence from Aaron Harper is deafening, Coralee O … whatever, and Scotty Stewart are absent while being paid in full. Cathy O’Toole famously says “I support jobs in Townsville, but want all coal miners to quit and become anything other than a coal miner”, and QNI, well what are you saying Cathy?

What is your opinion, or are you off on holiday with the other Labor MPs?

We now have record unemployme­nt, dying grass and now, no chocolate.

Our city will not go anywhere unless we as voters take decisive action, and demand that who is being paid to represent us, either do so or get out of Dodge.

We need our Galilee Basin coalfields now, we need a dam now, we need QNI to open or someone to tell us why it cannot open right now.

We need to let the Shameless Southern Sojourners know that unless our North gets acknowledg­ed, we will start in earnest to bring to fruition the Northern State of Australia. No chocolate shop should have to be closed because our city is dying, yet it is just a sad parade of betrayal as we clock up Max Brenner beside Telstra, QNI and real milk.

Max Brenner, I am so sorry to see you go. It was not for the want of trying; by me anyway.

 ?? Picture: SCOTT RADFORD- CHISHOLM ?? SOUR TASTE: Max Brenner closing its doors is the latest setback for the city.
Picture: SCOTT RADFORD- CHISHOLM SOUR TASTE: Max Brenner closing its doors is the latest setback for the city.

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