Politicians spurn public opinion for own agenda

WHAT has become of Queensland – or Australia for that matter? Under new laws introduced by the Premier, by wearing a “Stop Adani” T-shirt and carrying a bicycle lock I could be jailed for two years.

Ms Palaszczuk also stated (TB 22/8) that lock-on devices “can contain glass and butane gases”. The truth is, they don’t, and no such devices have been produced to date to prove that they do. The Premier is simply driving community division and public fear – hardly her role.

That aside, our PM and deputy PM have seriously insulted our Pacific neighbours, who have called for us to be kicked out of the Pacific Forum. In addition,

Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan has described as “weak as piss” global engineering and advisory corporation Aurecon for severing its ties with Adani.

With surveys showing the vast majority of Australians (many of them in Central and North Queensland) oppose Adani, it is increasingly obvious that our politicians are no longer representing the people or their best international interests.

As reported in the Bulletin (TB 22/8), mining and minerals-processing companies in Australia’s northwest are undertaking possibly the largest industrial shift to renewable energy the country has ever seen.

According to the companies involved, the move is expected to drive significant economic growth, spur development and create jobs.

Yet our politicians push an expanded fossil-fuel industry.

Our politicians are working in opposition to the public’s wishes on coal and climate change, offsiding neighbours who are turning to support from China, and offending Australia-based global corporations.

Sounds like time for more, not less, public resistance to me.

WENDY TUBMAN, Nelly Bay.