Get the latest news to your email inbox FREE!

REGISTER

Get the latest news to your email inbox FREE!

REGISTER
HomeYour LettersCarbon tax debate

Carbon tax debate

The promised carbon tax is to be made respectable by a few dollars going into the pockets of the poorest in the country, the Government announces. However, the poorest learnt maths when they went to school, not propaganda. All the baits being laid out have been seen through by those who do not need a calculator to balance their budgets.
This writer impolitely declined the pink bats offers, along with the set top boxes and, with practised care, has electricity use within budget. A pattern appears to be emerging of the arranging of gifts to sweeten election results.
All of this is approved by the Member for New England apparently and is puzzling to those who are aware of his enormous power within the Parliament. So I ask Mr Windsor, what if his around 1000 big polluters check out. What if they decide to turn off the lights, or whatever industry Mr Windsor finds so offensive, or the coal miners go fishing?
This writer would be far more impressed if Mr Windsor was as busy with the frightening selling off of Australia, and looking at who is flying in workers to work the mines, and the gasbags who are wrecking prime agricultural land. What about the changing face of Australia, with broken borders and broken hearts? Recently in a northern city in Queensland on a hot summer’s day, a line-up of Australians sympathised with a lady covered from head to toe, saying “Aren’t you hot?” She replied “Soon all of you will be wearing this!” Mr Windsor, it is up to you to decide the future of this country. I doubt the children of the west who recently lost their School of the Air for a period, thanks to the NBN’s botched digging job, think you are on their side!
Melba Morris, Allora

Previous article
Next article
Digital Edition
Subscribe

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

Staged pipeline build branded ‘disappointing outcome’

Southern Down councillors have been left wondering when full delivery of the Toowoomba to Warwick pipeline will occur after revelations the Queensland government planned...
More News

Anzac Day 2026 on the Southern Downs

Anzac Day traces its origins to the events of 25 April 1915, when troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on...

Rising building costs pause Sunlife housing project

Plans for a major new over 50s housing estate in Warwick have been delayed by developers due to surging construction costs. SunLife Australia founder and...

Tin Tops storm Morgan Park

Drivers started their engines and the roar of Tin Top racing retuned to Morgan Park, Warwick on Sunday as the Replica Tourers Trophy Series...

GALLERY: Warwick’s unique 81-year-old pre-Anzac Day tradition

Warwick war veterans and active service members have been sharing in a longstanding pre-Anzac Day tradition for more than eight decades and it shows...

Woolworths avoids fine after Stanthorpe biosecurity scare

Stanthorpe Woolworths avoided penalties from Australia’s federal agriculture authority last September after exposing a shipment of nappies potentially infested with an invasive grain pest...

Water Rats score second draw

Warwick Water Rats Men’s side have snatched a draw in their second round Darling Downs Rugby competition game in Dalby on Saturday afternoon –...

Wolves solidify top six spot

Warwick Wolves have solidified their spot in the top six of the men’s Darling Downs Premier League Three competition with a 2-1 win over...

Dry times push native nursery into closing after 34 years

Sarah and David Caldwell have run the Mole Station Native Nursery for 34 years but dry conditions and disrupted freight operations have forced the...

Free mobile flu clinic heading to Warwick and other regional hubs

As the weather starts to get colder, the risk of the flu starts to creep back into people’s minds, and with this, Darling Downs...

Exciting times for Warwick Cowboys

The Warwick Cowboys are yet to be beaten in any grade two weeks into their 40th Toowoomba Rugby League season and are set to...