PREMIER TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS ON HER POLITICAL FUTURE
I WAS in Townsville for the V8s recently and if there’s one thing they don’t want, it’s higher power prices.
Yet, that’s exactly what they’ll get from the Labor government in Brisbane. They, along with the SA, VIC and ACT ALP states have all locked into 50/50 renewable energy targets and promises of zero emissions in the coming years.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk must have a political death wish.
North Queensland is already paying through the nose.
You can bang on all you like about the benefits in 30 years, but real people only care about how they will make it through the next 30 days let alone 30 months.
Labor has well over a dozen seats outside of Brisbane. The government only hold two more seats than the LNP. Do the math.
This might play well on Twitter but these targets are concrete shoes in regional Australia. PUT THE PHONE DOWN A STORY from Sydney simultaneously broke my heart and gave me a kick in the backside this week.
An elderly couple, both in their eighties, were found dead in their home.
The man died of natural causes, but he was the carer of his blind and disabled wife. She died from a lack of care. Local police were clearly moved by the case and took to Facebook to send a message we all should heed.
Put your phones down and take 20 minutes to reach out to an older person who lives in your area. If they are in trouble it could save a life.
DIFFERENT PM, SAME MISTAKE THE bills keep rolling in from the mistakes of the Gillard and Rudd governments.
The latest is a $600 million claim lodged in the courts this week by farmers smashed by the live export ban.
Their entire industry was turned off after the Gillard government got spooked by a Four Corners report.
Sadly the current Liberal government was no different. They too got spooked after watching Four Corners and launched a Royal Commission into the NT youth justice system the next morning.
That commission is still going and has become a far wider witch hunt than the alleged ills that program showed.
We need leaders who can take a step back, see a situation for what it really is and take time to fix a problem.