Government is failing jobseekers
No amount of spin can cover the fact Annastacia Palaszczuk is failing jobseekers in Regional Queensland.
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The latest figures revealed this week showed a decline of 28,800 jobs in Regional Queensland last year.
Despite that, Employment Minister Grace Grace has the audacity to champion a program that has created only 1500 jobs – and parts of Regional Queensland such as Toowoomba are excluded from the program.
Don’t forget this is a Minister who claimed youth unemployment was “not new” and “not much you can change” just one month after being sworn into her $330,000-a- year job.
Annastacia Palaszczuk should stop treating Regional Queenslanders like mugs.
After two years of inaction, people aren’t fooled by a sudden burst of political activity in Regional Queensland months before a state election.
What else would you expect from a Brisbane-centric government that doesn’t care about our regions?
It’s obvious the only job Annastacia Palaszczuk cares about is her own.
Jarrod Bleijie
Shadow Employment Minister
Eight line poem
I've done some pretty stupid things
Since I've been on the planet.
I used to smoke, and drink too much
And ate food like a gannet.
I fought with mates, upset my wife
But one thing really matters
I never ever ever ever
Voted for the Katters.
George Harley
Mount Isa
Experience of Domestic Violence
I am writing regarding what is a very emotional divisive issue, the horror that is Domestic Violence.
What most people may not be aware of is that Domestic Violence is not only physical harm but also includes emotional abuse and other non physical means of harming another person.
I have experienced firsthand the damage that Domestic Violence can bring to peoples lives.
My father lived in a relationship that included emotional abuse on a daily basis and occasionally included physical attacks.
This went on for as long as I can remember as a child until I couldn’t handle what my mother was doing and left home.
I often asked dad why he tolerated what mum did to him, why he didn’t leave or report it to the police.
His response was that he still loved mum and hoped she would change, that there was no point reporting it as the police would never take a man’s side in Domestic Violence incidents- and anyway, what could they do?
To be honest I tend to agree with him, mum was very manipulative and would have no doubt played the part of a victim very well. I am still very angry with my mother and no doubt always will be.
I think I have a right.
Ultimately the torment that dad was subjected to became too much for him and he took his own life.
I wish he had left mum instead but for reasons known only to him he couldn’t.
Obviously the blame for what happened lays at the feet of my mother but also the legal system that doesn’t seem to recognise that females are equally capable of committing Domestic Violence and do so on a regular basis (friends I have confided in have told me of similar situations in their homes) and that males will rarely report it as they don’t want to be seen as weak and they probably don’t think they will be believed.
I pray for balance in the legal system and that males are provided with more support so that other dads aren’t taken from their children. I pray for an end to DV.
Name and address withheld