Core ON policy crazy

PAULINE Hanson’s One Nation ( ON) and the Katter’s Australian Party ( KAP) are calling on Queenslanders to vote for them as a protest vote.

Locally, in Hinchinbrook and Burdekin, ON is preferencing Labor ahead of Dale Last and Andrew Cripps, who are both good strong local representatives. The voters in Hinchinbrook and Burdekin need to ask why Margaret Bell and Sam Cox are supporting Labor ahead of the LNP.

ON is controlled by Pauline Hanson and her chief- of- staff, James Ashby. The candidates themselves are irrelevant. ON’s preferences may return Labor. Three more years of no baseload power and out- of- control crime.

Pauline and Ashby are intent on preventing the LNP from winning a majority thereby giving ON the balance of power. This is unadulterated selfinterest.

The KAP and the Greens will always support a minority Labor government. It is highly probable that ON will do the same.

Before Saturday’s election, all the minor parties and independents should declare which party they will support to form a minority government.

ON is a populist’s party which will take Queensland into three years of chaos.

An example of a populist’s policy that is poorly conceived is ON’s Citizen Initiated Referendum ( CIR). Sam Cox, in a letter to the TB 16 June, championed this ON policy as being “government by the people”.

I thought Sam had more sense.

He says the CIR is a core belief of ON and it will happen.

CIR will result in chaos and anarchy. The policy is that without any legal or ethical limitations, if 5 per cent of Queensland voters sign a petition for a referendum on any matter, that matter must go to a referendum at the next state election.

The Greens could easily obtain the 5 per cent to force referendums on closing all coal mines and thermal power stations; imposing a sugar tax; a state- based carbon tax; ban petrol and diesel vehicles; no new dams; wealth taxes; death duties; open state borders for overseas immigration etc. The Greens alone could force hundreds of referendums at the next election. Every mad policy the Greens have would go to a referendum.

Unions would easily achieve the 5 per cent. We would have referendums on compulsory unionism; union officials having unrestricted access to all work sites, including farms; boycotts etc.

Think carefully about a protest vote for ON or the KAP.

If you do, give your second preference to the party you want to form government. BARRY LOWE,

Kirwan.