Keyboard warriors attempt to defend the tired old LNP

THE LNP have trotted out some keyboard warriors, Dale Atkinson (TB 1/10) and Ian Hanson (TB 7/10) to shore up the defences as the October election looms.

Both Dale and Ian claim to have insight into the workings of Katter’s Australian Party. It is no real surprise that neither of them has any idea what they are talking about. As fear runs through the ranks of the LNP, they must resort to deceptions and fabrications to further their tired old agenda, from a tired old party.

It will not make any difference to these two that the Katter’s Australian Party has made no deal regarding this election. None. Fact. You can check it, but they won’t. Both of these letter writers scream foul because projects have been granted to electorates that are represented by KAP members.

To back up Bob Doyle’s letter to the editor (TB, 30/9/2020) when Bob states that it is an insult to the voters to have any party declaring that only electorates that have a government member should get projects and grants.

Dale and Ian need to understand that voters do not care who delivers jobs, cheaper power, water and a future, voters just want results. Something the LNP find difficult to accept outside of Brisbane.

It will not make any difference to Dale and Ian if I say that on so many occasions LNP has voted with Labor against Bills sponsored by the KAP just to be nasty.

The LNP has voted not to help dairy farmers, voted to implement unfair Reef legislation, voted with Labor to persecute graziers with torturous vegetation management regulations. My goodness, anyone would think the LNP has done a deal with Labor to ensure that minor parties are destroyed.

The Katter’s Australian Party sitting members have been approached by high ranking LNP officials regarding the deal the LNP is doing with the Greens. I do not know if they will break ranks and declare publicly that they will not support this deal or they will simply just follow the heavy southern hand and do as they are told.

If the Greens and LNP deal was not true, then why are your own people running scared? The minor parties the LNP fear all come out of the LNP. So many members of these parties could no longer stand by and defend the indefensible.

What is left of the LNP, has shown time and again that it is their rules or none. That ‘none’, is evident as our Dale and Ian demand that the North gets nothing other than what the tired LNP will deliver.

At least the Labor Party gets on with the job of being bad for our state, while the LNP is just grasping at the southern straws with catch up announcements, that will be ripped to shreds once and if they gain a majority come October 31.

The Katter party has shown it can deliver so why is it so hard for the LNP to accept that the voters come before their party? Or more to the point, does the LNP fear a parliament that they will have to deal or no deal to deliver for our state? Thank goodness voters decide.

DEBRA GIBSON, Pinnacles.

OUR time on this earth is limited – we all live and we all die.

It is a genuine aspiration of this writer to attempt one last time to squeeze a practical realisation out of those who believe climate change is responsible for the terrible bushfires experienced earlier this year.

Looking at the situation in an honest, down-to-earth manner, the following are the real facts.

First of all, fire will eventually happen, whatever the cause be it lightning strike or someone throwing down a match or cigarette butt. A question to those who implicitly know and understand that this fire will have to happen eventually. Do you want a big fire or a little one? To those who are willing to accept and understand in all honesty, that the little fire does the least damage, congratulations.

The little fire, called preventive burning, carried out (especially in forest regions) every one or two years, burns slowly along the ground. Doing the very least damage.

All animal life has the chance to escape. They usually run away or climb the trees to higher levels where flames do not reach.

In other words, they survive. An area or region that has been left to grow unchecked for years, finishes up with an accumulation of brown grass, leaves, sticks, branches, burnable debris etc that, (when it does finally burn) creates flames a hundred feet high, and more. All the koalas, lizards, snakes, birds in the nest, too young to fly all get burned to death. Another question. How many hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions of the aforementioned wildlife species in the big bushfires that took place earlier this year, died? Honest answer is a lot.

It all happened because sensible, necessary, preventive, slow burns were not allowed. If these hazardreduction burns are carried out at the right time of the year, and the right time of the day with no, or very little wind, by people who know what they are doing such as farmers and experienced bush people, then damage to homes, wildlife and people is limited to virtually nothing or very, very little. These are the common sense details – for those unable to comprehend this data you are sadly misguided people.

COLIN BAKER, Pentland.

I HAVE to take issue with last week’s editorial in the Townsville Bulletin headlined “Good to see pollies take on the big insurers.”

The line should have read “Good to see pollies take on stopping climate change.” What rock has the editor and Rob Katter been living under?

This century so far Queensland has had the seven-year Centenary Drought, the current drought that is still not over in parts, Cyclone Yasi, Cyclone Larry, Cyclone Debbie, two or three major reef bleaching events, major floods in Mackay,

Rockhampton (twice), Bundaberg, Brisbane, Toowoomba, Laidley, Ipswich. Recently we had unprecedented home-destroying bushfires as far north as Yeppoon and Townsville’s one in 1000-year flood in 2019.

Where will we find some new markets for a new coal mine to pay for this damage now that President Xi is using Chinese coal and intends to phase it out entirely in the next 40 years. Oh. By the way, accept an IOU for royalties from our latest thermal coal hole in the ground. That should pay for a bit of disaster relief.

GLENN WHITE,

Kelso.

I WAS encouraged to see the Queensland government release the Protected Area Strategy this week including some initial funding.

Along with my husband Jaimie, I own and manage a grazing property that includes a private protected area, or ‘nature refuge’.

I believe that encouraging biodiversity on our property is good for the soil, is good for the land, and is good for business.

I hope to see all the political parties support greater investment into protected areas.

I believe this will support landholders who want to see their natural assets protected, create new land management jobs in tackling weeds and pests, and encourage more tourists who are keen to see the amazing nature and wildlife we have to offer in regional Queensland. GARLONE MOULIN,

Bogie.