Catalogue of woes for prime minister
As a proud Victorian, I feel like an outcast compared to the rest of Australia, so lets reveal the chain of events that have happened this year, NOT concerning Victoria.
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The Ruby Princess debacle, 2700 people wandered all over Australia from an infected ship, a non event according to Scott Morrison.
Aged care disaster, 'not my fault' according to Morrison, refused to let two officials testify at the aged care enquiry, no castigation of Minister Colbeck over his mishandling of the aged care disaster, blame Victoria.
Morrison's gold star performer, the NSW premier, caught up in the alleged dodgy dealings of her boyfriend of five years but nothing to see here.
The witch hunt of Australia Post's chief executive regarding her "watches" gift.
There was $33 million dollars paid to Liberal party donors for airport land valued at just $3 million, nothing to see here.
ASIC chairman and deputy caught out using excessive taxpayer funds and we would not have known only for the Auditor general sticking his nose in - what a bugger Scomo, caught out again.
But back to Victoria - the savage reply to any " pause" was entirely predictable, predictable as Morrison's flippant replies to the above alleged " dodgy events" that directly effect him.
The chief health officer said the opening dates were not effected, so for God's sake can we just move forward and embrace the opportunities we have, instead of waking up every day being castigated by a pretend Prime Minister.
Ken Price, Eaglehawk
Common sense needed on fire preparation
I refer to the article published on October 24, "Cultural Burning Plan Set to Fire Up". For decades now our forestry services have been hamstrung with policies about burning off.
Most of these have been led by the Greens and Conservationists targeted at saving wildlife, trees, etc.
What they fail to remember is that lightning and build up of deadfall has been happening for centuries, a part of nature.
Fires actually trigger new growth and animals can normally find their way to safety. When the local people turned up 40,000 years ago they soon worked out if they did their burning off regularly in the right areas, it negated the massive build up and provided some safety for the fauna and the people that had moved into those areas.
It's just my opinion, but I think we should listen to the Indigenous people, have them advise of safe burn off plan and let the farmers graze their cattle in state forests.
No fuel, no massive fires.
James Howden, Ascot
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