LtE's 18/12 - Monday Afternoon/Evening Edition

The first 17 years of my life were without electricity.

Kerosene fridges and 'coolgardie safes' were all the go.

But access to water is the primary need.

I would no longer live in a city even if you paid me!

The Editor
The Courier Mail

It’s incredibly patronising to imply that mainstream Australians are responsible for lower life expectancy and higher incarceration rates amongst indigenous Australians, (Gap ambitions in doubt, 18/12).

It suggests that indigenous Australians have no personal agency and cannot make their own lifestyle decisions.

The reality of European settlement on this continent is a doubling of life expectancy and a reduction in violence amongst indigenous Australians.

If you read genuine contemporaneous accounts from the early years of European exploration, such as ethnographer Carl Lumholtz’ 1889 book “Among Cannibals: an Account of Four Years’ Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland,” you’ll understand just how much things have improved for indigenous Australians, particularly indigenous women.

Modern Australia has given indigenous Australians all the tools they need to live longer and to stay out of jail – and that’s all we can do.

The rest is up to them.

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Peter Campion
Tolga

The Editor
The Courier Mail

As a retired firefighter who attended far too many fatal road crashes; I feel the pain of those who have lost loved ones, (Driven to death, 18/12).

However, blaming speed, or more precisely, exceeding the posted speed limit, is counterproductive.

Most fatal incidents occur at or below the speed limit: exceeding it can be a contributing factor but is not usually the causal factor.

The overwhelming majority of collisions are the result of driver error, often exacerbated by alcohol, drug, or phone use and sometimes by health issues – including Covid injection side-effects.

Authorities like to blame speed as that justifies revenue raising with speed cameras and it’s much easier than attributing fault to drivers.

Speed cameras can’t detect drunk, drug-affected, distracted, or jab-injured drivers, which is why blaming speed is counterproductive: it diverts attention from the real cause – impaired and distracted drivers.

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Peter Campion
Tolga

The Editor
The Daily Telegraph

Gotta love Tim Blair’s insightful and witty analysis of the US presidential election cycle, but it’s telling that there’s a subject even he mustn’t discuss, (Don brings the laughs and may win the vote, 18/12).

Nobody in legacy media is allowed to talk about the widespread election fraud the US has suffered in the electronic voting machine and ballot drop box era, particularly in 2020.

This is odd, because when Trump beat Hillary in 2016 the Democrats went on about election fraud for months, as they did most times they lost.

Those of us watching the 2020 results being tallied saw evidence of fraud on live feeds: Trump’s tally went down at times and Biden’s went up by the same amounts.

In any election, vote tallies never go down, they only go up – but the legacy media is on strict instructions not to discuss that happening in 2020.

Legacy media corporations are controlled by hedge funds like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, which are ultimately controlled by the Davos-class globalist billionaires.

It’s those globalists who won’t let Tim Blair critically examine what really happened in the 2020 election.

Now, what other mainstream narratives might that overly powerful unelected group of foreigners be shaping here in Australia?

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Peter Campion
Tolga