SIR JOH SET BENCHMARKS
By way of reply to Bob Aitkenvale’s text TB Mon. 4/7. Yes, very true Bob, David Crissafulli may’ve been in kindy during the “Joh years”. However, if you think that the Fitzgerald Inquiry had any positive outcome, I for one beg to differ. Joh Bjelke Petersen and the National Party were saints in comparison to the train wreck that masquerades as our State Government. You say the current government has a long way to go to reach the standards outlined by the Fitzgerald Inquiry? Let me say to Bob and other dear readers, when it comes to graft and corruption, they are probably light years ahead! First and foremost, the State Government that Joh Bjelke-petersel led established some benchmark standards that were the envy of every state and territory in the country. The movers and shakers in government and big business worked together to build, and bring Queensland to a level of achievement and prosperity never to be surpassed by their predecessors.
In base terms Bob, everyone played the game, including the unions, and the important thing to remember Bob, that if you were around at the time, and by your text my guess is that you were, and if you were in the workforce as I was, we didn’t have too much to whinge about.
Jobs were in abundance, we could afford to save for a home, take our kids on holiday and not come home broke; well, most times … The government of the day got things done; without doubt there was graft and corruption - unfortunately it is said that it makes the world go around.
One could bet London to a brick that the graft and corruption wheel within our Queensland
State Government has been replaced a few times; spinning so fast the bearings are stuffed. And so are we, the long suffering average citizens of our oncebeautiful state.
On the royal commission thing,
I seriously doubt “royal commission” would roll easily from the tongue of David Crissafulli, he’s way too smart for that. Journo’s don’t make him eat his words too often, as it appears he thinks carefully before he opens his mouth; pity we can’t say the same for our incumbent State Leader and her mates. In closing let me say for my two cents worth, nothing good came out of the Fitzgerald Disaster, it rang the death knell for any effective form of social justice and law and order and effectively neutered our Police Force, and flooded us out with a tsunami of bull**it rules and overregulation. So folks, here endeth the epistle.
ROSS SMITH, Gulliver.