Post by NFA on Jul 18, 2024 18:06:27 GMT 8
Re: Bridge centre of attention for political powerhouses
The Editor
The Express
Here’s what you need to know about the political powerhouses who are suddenly concerned about the beleaguered Barron River bridge in the run-up to October’s state election, (Bridge centre of attention for political powerhouses, 17/07).
In a recent media release, the Brisbane Labor government’s Transport Minister Bart Mellish said, “Micro stress fractures found in the bridge’s steel shortly after its construction in the 1960s meant that its lifespan was always limited.”
Let that sink in for a moment.
For six decades, every consecutive Brisbane government, Labor and Liberal, has known that this vital bridge would need early replacement.
If the Labor-Liberal UNiparty cared about us, they’d have been planning and saving for this bridge’s replacement for 60 years.
The plans would be there on a shelf, ready to be implemented.
The money would have been accumulating in an account, ready to spend.
Contracts would have been drawn up, ready for builders to sign.
Suppliers would have been short-listed, ready to start delivering materials.
But what were the Labor-Liberal UNiparty doing all this time?
They weren’t merely doing nothing - it’s far worse than that.
They abjectly abandoned their responsibility to govern Far North Queensland fairly, in accordance with the will of its people.
They spent our money on nice things for the sardine-tin electorates in the south-east while infrastructure crumbled up here.
They abused the trust of Far Northerners who helped get them onto comfortable ministerial leather and failed to deliver the bare minimum in return.
They failed every Far Northerner who ever voted for them.
They let us down – consistently – for most of a human lifetime.
Their record is one of failure and abandonment.
They’re like an abusive spouse, always promising that this time it will be different; but it never is, we just get abused again each time we elect them.
It’s time we moved on.
It’s time we made a new life without them.
This October when we vote, we need to put them where they’ve always put us – last.
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Express
Here’s what you need to know about the political powerhouses who are suddenly concerned about the beleaguered Barron River bridge in the run-up to October’s state election, (Bridge centre of attention for political powerhouses, 17/07).
In a recent media release, the Brisbane Labor government’s Transport Minister Bart Mellish said, “Micro stress fractures found in the bridge’s steel shortly after its construction in the 1960s meant that its lifespan was always limited.”
Let that sink in for a moment.
For six decades, every consecutive Brisbane government, Labor and Liberal, has known that this vital bridge would need early replacement.
If the Labor-Liberal UNiparty cared about us, they’d have been planning and saving for this bridge’s replacement for 60 years.
The plans would be there on a shelf, ready to be implemented.
The money would have been accumulating in an account, ready to spend.
Contracts would have been drawn up, ready for builders to sign.
Suppliers would have been short-listed, ready to start delivering materials.
But what were the Labor-Liberal UNiparty doing all this time?
They weren’t merely doing nothing - it’s far worse than that.
They abjectly abandoned their responsibility to govern Far North Queensland fairly, in accordance with the will of its people.
They spent our money on nice things for the sardine-tin electorates in the south-east while infrastructure crumbled up here.
They abused the trust of Far Northerners who helped get them onto comfortable ministerial leather and failed to deliver the bare minimum in return.
They failed every Far Northerner who ever voted for them.
They let us down – consistently – for most of a human lifetime.
Their record is one of failure and abandonment.
They’re like an abusive spouse, always promising that this time it will be different; but it never is, we just get abused again each time we elect them.
It’s time we moved on.
It’s time we made a new life without them.
This October when we vote, we need to put them where they’ve always put us – last.
Peter Campion
Tolga