Pavetto for Kennedy
We have an important decision to make on Saturday as to where we want our community, our region and our future to go. While I can tell you Mr Katter is not trying to get away with 'murder', he is still killing the investment, prosperity and vision for Kennedy.
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Mr Katter has been doing it for far too long. While Mr Katter claims it is all a joke, only he and the KAP are laughing. The joke has been on his constituents and their under-representation for the last five parliaments. Where serious issues need to be brought to the table and debated, they are overshadowed on Mr Katter’s delivery or the stunt he attempts to draw attention to them. The stunts are what gets talked about and his original message is lost, as we have seen over again.
On the policy front, the best Mr Katter can ever hope for is a hung parliament and even then he failed to deliver. Opportunity was lost in 2010 and it was a case of save Katter, not deliver for Kennedy. Mr Katter is out of step and, as the name suggests, is thinking of one thing; himself. It's called "KATTER'S" Australia Party as the only person he cared about as it appears in the title of the party. It seems the electorate is stuck on ceremony and sees him as the home grown son who has our backs. But he is a shadow of his former self. Mr Katter has had a good political life but is failing to get a real platform for implementation. Mr Katter is an analogue politician in a digital age however he's growing more into the two-bob watch you get on a beach in Bali that works for a week, not an elder statesman he should be. While I respect Mr Katter and acknowledge his long service, we have to asked what is good for Kennedy.
Jonathan Pavetto is a fifth generation northern Queenslander, an educated economist that's worked tirelessly for the agricultural sector. Committed to community, Mr Pavetto is the Renaissance man Kennedy needs. Jonathan has the right people in Canberra too. Jonathan has the vision and the voice to get the investment for infrastructure North Queensland needs. We do not need the tumultuous years of Gillard-Rudd that Bill "the invisible man" Shorten and Labor will bring back. This will only see a Katter saving exercise and no results for Kennedy.
I strongly urge you to look past the colloquialisms and the pseudo-bravado of Mr Katter and change your vote to LNP. Vote for vision, vote for investment, vote for prosperity.
Murray Lehmann
Mount Isa
Put the LNP last
Malcolm Turnbull is trying to frighten people into voting for the Coalition with terrifying visions of a chaotic minority government.
I remember the minority Liberal and National government of Nick Greiner in NSW. It certainly lurched from crisis to crisis.
First Terry Metherell forced it into even deeper minority by flouncing off to the cross-benches in a huff because he wasn't made a Minister.
Then Greiner himself was forced to resign after doing a shady deal with Metherell which amounted to the bribing of a sitting MP.
After that, his replacement John Fahey had to kowtow to three of his own backbenchers. They threatened to bring down the minority government altogether over the life-and-death issue of horse-riding in national parks. Liberal and National Party treachery reigned supreme.
Fast forward to 2016. Barnaby Joyce has already shown us he will make whatever decisions he likes, out of the blue, no matter what anyone else in a Coalition government may think. Malcolm Turnbull is therefore quite right to frighten us about what a Liberal and National minority government would be like.
The only way to vote against such chaos is to put the LNP last.
G.T.W. AGNEW
Coopers Plains