Labor’s coal hypocrisy
The Queensland Labor Party showed its true colours in Canberra this week, when its four Queensland Senators voted with the Greens to shut down Queensland’s coal industry and kill the tens of thousands of jobs it supports.
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Mine workers, their families and the thousands of small business owners the coal industry supports deserve to know that Queensland Labor Senators Murray Watt, Anthony Chisholm, Chris Ketter and Claire Moore voted to torpedo their livelihoods.
While we expect this type of lunacy from the Greens, every one of these Labor Senators should be condemned for supporting this motion calling for the earliest possible end to the thermal coal sector because “it is in structural decline and has no long-term future in Australia”.
Clearly these Labor Senators are disconnected from the world outside of their air-conditioned south-east Queensland offices.
If they cared, they would understand how important the coal sector is, not only to our state’s economy, but to local communities in the regions.
Make no mistake - State and Federal Labor politicians are like wolves in sheep’s clothing when it comes to support for our coal industry.
They’ll say one thing when they’re in your town, and then do the opposite in State or Federal Parliament.
When Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pops a hard hat and high vis on at a mine near you and pretends to care about your jobs remember this.
Her Labor comrades in Brisbane and Canberra will be sticking the knife into an industry that is a cornerstone of the Queensland economy.
ANDREW CRIPPS
LNP Shadow Mines Minister and Member for Hinchinbrook.
Katter Thought Bubbles
I did promise to stop picking on the Katter Space Cadet Party, but they have to stop being stupid first.
So what thought bubble have they pushed out now?
They want to start a yippee shoot on crocodiles because there are billions of them crawling into the suburbs, rampantly killing.
And Bob wants weapons in vehicles to shoot those psycho killer reptiles.
Fact: crocs kill, on average, one person per year.
Horses kill, on average, 10 people a year.
When are the Katter, Katter, Knuth Party ( The KKK) going to start shooting horses?
And if every visitor to outback Queensland had to carry a firearm and ammunition in their car, the death toll would be astronomical.
Seriously Bob, who advises you?
George Harley
Mount Isa
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Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
