Trumped
Could my Federal representative for the seat of Kennedy please speak up and declare that Donald Trump is a dangerous,delusional, unhinged narcissist.
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Or will Bob join the insane clown posse that thinks he has the right ideas?
George Harley
Mount Isa
Dob in a Dealer an LNP policy
Yet again the Palaszczuk Government has stolen another LNP policy and claimed credit for it in a desperate attempt to look like Labor’s doing something for Queenslanders.
In July last year, I stood with LNP leader Tim Nicholls and Crime Stoppers chief Trevor O’Hara to announce a future LNP government would fund a Dob in a Dealer campaign so that everyday Queenslanders could play their part in protecting our kids by getting ice off our streets.
Surprise surprise, this week, some six months later, Labor’s Police Minister Mark Ryan ‘announced’ a Dob in a Dealer campaign that he claims to have allocated $20 million to.
Read the fine print though and you’ll see that money will be used to ‘develop strategies, expand capabilities and form systems’ – doesn’t sound much like action to me.
Remember this is the same soft on crime Labor government that scrapped Australia’s strongest criminal gang laws, threw away the LNP’s laws that named and shamed young offenders and made breach of bail a crime.
Let me be clear the LNP welcomes Labor’s support of our Dob in a Dealer policy but why has it taken them two years to act?
Tim Mander
LNP Shadow Police Minister
Changes to the part-pension asset test
The new changes are to the financial detriment of all part pension retirees. They are now in fact being penalised after their retirement has commenced.
An analogy is a sporting team winning an event and gaining their rewards, then somewhere in the future the rules of the game are changed and the rewards are taken off them, even though they won under the rules in place at the time.
These changes should apply to future retirement plans, not plans in existence. In fact, with the ever spiralling costs there should not be any reductions but increases.
I strongly disagree with cars in the asset test. In Mount Isa there is no public transport so a car is a necessity for pensioners to do shopping and attending medical facilities.
The Gifting Allowance allowed in the guidelines has not been changed for 40 years. In today’s value it should be at least four times the value that it is, if it was kept up with inflation.
Regardless of who is in government, when ever monetary problems arise, the lower income earners always have to shoulder the lion’s share of the burden.
It is time they start at the top and lead by example and forego their entitlements and perks. They can retire from Parliament collect their pension and work or have a business and none of this affects their pension, unlike the every day pensioner, if they work and earn a specific amount their pension is reduced. This a double standard, their pension scheme should be the same as all other pension schemes both schemes should be standardised.
It would be very interesting to know how much it is costing the tax payers to fund all the current retired politicians. Both State and Federal, I am aware their superannuation (which the taxpayer actually pays) far exceeds what the ordinary worker gets. Once again Standardisation should apply to Superannuation.
It is no mystery why people are turning away from the major parties and politicians.
Kevin Kenna
Mount Isa