MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE

IT IS vital that some comfort be given to CW Bushland Beach

(Text “again” T/B 10/11/2020).

CW uses the wonderful freedom of speech, (that our Bulletin depends) to, moan and groan about an election result.

The text section of the Bulletin is fairly designed to allow those who do not want to make themselves known to fairly participate in our freedom of speech.

The inability of CW “Bushland Beach”, to put a name to the texts printed in our beloved Bully should not deter anyone from reading or even acknowledging the importance of any kind of freedom of speech. If CW believes that a few letters by citizens of Townsville can actually change the course of an election, then therein lies the problem.

To demand that unless people in only government-held electorates get any attention from a government is not embracing the true meaning of the word “fairness”. Does the now famous CW really screech that if the LNP ruled Queensland, then only those electorates won by the LNP would receive “attention?”

To condemn voters in Katter’s Australian Party-held seats to the wilderness, identifies just how frustrated CW must be, that the

LNP ran a totally southeast-corner campaign. Businesses down in the southeast are hurting and it won’t be long until we see a lot of them close.

This is heartbreaking as some tourist-based business in Townsville are suffering as well. Labor said they would keep us safe, Liberal listened to the south and said they would open borders.

Considering about 20 to 25 per cent of voters usually decide who wins government, (being swing voters), the people spoke.

Elections are won on fear, and we have all seen this done by Labor and Liberal for a few elections now.

Fear drove that 20-25 per cent of voters to Labor. They did not want to see their elderly parents, grandparents or sick, die of COVID.

The traumatised CW appears to have no real answers as to the rationale of the Labor Party to “be prepared to lose an election, to keep us safe”. Queenslanders are not stupid, CW, they vote for who will give them what it is that they require the most.

To blame the freedom of speech and freedom to vote for wellbeing and safety on a letter writer in our Bulletin cannot be the rationale of the LNP. Because if it is, then we are destined to another decade of Labor.

What will it take for the LNP to look at the principles they currently have, and overhaul their approach? The conservative voters will not return to the LNP while they cannot show voters what are their core values and principles. Something that is easy to do, because we have the Townsville Bulletin, who unlike our CW, is fair and espouses the freedom that CW seems to dislike so much.

DEBRA GIBSON, Pinnacles.