Get the latest news to your email inbox FREE!

REGISTER

Get the latest news to your email inbox FREE!

REGISTER
HomeYour LettersA new ‘F’ word?

A new ‘F’ word?

Dare one think the unpopular thought of a creeping and masked Fascism could be rearing its ugly head – at a noticeably marked pace? It’s the combined and speedy timing that is both telling and revealing. In Australia, we didn’t want poisonous fluoride but that was forced on us anyway.  Amalgamation followed, thereby ‘centralising power’ with better control and less councils. Then carbon tax quickly followed, whereby polluters can simply purchase carbon credits and pollute as much as they like, all around the world.
‘What if’ they control, influence or manage the places who forfeit the carbon credits, making possible the massive dollars could end up back in their own pockets, for example, “give me your carbon credit instead of company X, and I’ll invest in your country to create much needed employment, whereby I’ll reap dollar benefit as well”. Does this not sound feasible? And quite legal. Meanwhile we keep paying our carbon taxes while the polluters pollute all over again? What a fruitless scenario.
Who really pays are middle class working Australians. Wipe us out through weakening taxes (flood, fire and carbon just for starters) and we are left with a two-tier society – rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. Hence by supporting (endless) carbon taxes, could we be supporting our own demise? With so much money involved in world carbon taxes, and Emissions “Trading” Schemes, it could be regarded as foolhardy not to even consider the possibility of an ulterior motive hidden profit agenda difficult, if not impossible, to trace once it leaves a country’s shores. We couldn’t follow our cows, let alone money wired around the globe.
What we need in Australia (and interestingly are never offered, which makes sense when we think why) is a Bill of Rights for the citizens so we have some say in our governance whoever is in power, supplying us with a right to challenge that which we do not want or want to become, for example, weakened targets for ambitious Fascist control. Fifty ‘billion’ dollars was wiped off the Australian Sharemarket last Friday and don’t think further – could there be a connection in an all-over troubled world, and a simultaneous ‘world’ carbon tax? The few well-informed have little doubt.
Whoever is really behind the big carbon push continues to remain well hidden even from the leaders used as world pawns to promote its huge power. It would be difficult and surely mistaken to applaud their compliance.

Moya Cahill, Stanthorpe

Digital Edition
Subscribe

Get an all ACCESS PASS to the News and your Digital Edition with an online subscription

Good numbers back on the Croquet lawn

Warwick Croquet is back in full swing with good numbers for both the Association Play and Golf Play this past week. On Tuesday 13 January...
More News

Film exploring trauma and parenthood set for free Warwick screening

A groundbreaking documentary exploring the emotional journey of parenthood is set to be screened by BUSHkids in Warwick next month. The not-for-profit rural health organisation...

East titles up for grabs

Warwick East Bowls Club is set to hold their Champion of Club Champions men’s fours competition, with play starting at 9am. The finals will...

Gearing up for Championship Pairs

The Summit Bowls Club will hold its Men’s Championship Pairs titles this weekend as bowlers return in full force to the greens across the...

Survival day event to focus on positives

A "survival day" gathering east of Warwick will unpack some of the positive things happening in First Nations groups. Hosted annually by Brenda and David...

Major PALM scheme labour hire firm collapses

Liquidators have been appointed to wind up a prominent labour hire contractor that employed Pacific workers to work on Granite Belt farms. According to a...

Cattle prices firm despite softer lamb market

The new selling season opened up in the sale arenas of Warwick this week for our first sale of 2026. The season has not...

Lamb market softens

The new selling season for the sheep and lambs has arrived and saw Agents and vendors combine to present a total of 2708 head...

Retro team a family affair

When the phrase “the family that plays together, stays together” was coined they might just have had Stanthorpe’s Harslett family in mind. During the...

50+ Southern Downs bus stops slated for revamp

More than 50 bus stops in the Southern Downs are slated for a revamp in the coming months as part of a region-wide push...

Schmidt and House snag first win

Dealer: S Vul: E/W NORTH ♠ K63 ♥ 93 ♦ J8643 ♣ K73 WEST EAST ♠ AQJ107 ♠ 982 ♥ AK74 ♥ 865 ♦ Q95 ♦ 10 ♣ Q ♣ A96542 SOUTH ♠ 54 ♥ QJ102 ♦ AK72 ♣...