There are thousands of people who cannot envisage the projected 40,000 gas wells planned for Queensland (Nancy Murphy, SFT June 16). It seems an obscenity to destroy productive food growing land, to balance a wasteful government’s budget. Earthquakes and underground pipes will argue, and we all know what that outcome would be. Just this year earthquakes have shaken the north, and most thinking people see opportunist governments as blind to the reality of anything other than the next election. A different mob will then have to clean up the mess, as those who allowed it all live on in luxury, supplied by the taxpayer. Recently in another place, the sum of $785.8 million were costs expected by 16 companies, as a result of a carbon tax priced at 26 dollars a tonne. How far will a pension rate increase go as companies increase prices to cover such massive losses? There was a time when the business of State, Local and Federal Government was thought safe in the hands of competent managers – no more. Remember the soldier settlements after the war, the immigration from Europe to build a new nation. Now the nation is leaving Australia in massive mining projects, and the farmers are in the way of gas miners. The live cattle export trade was too good for farmers, so was organised to death. Advance Australia Fair is our National Anthem, Advance Australia Where?
Melba Morris, Allora
