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West Byron
I note with ‘grave’ enthusiasm the full-page advert in last week’s Echo stating that Labor stands with our community on West Byron, backed by the earth-toned socialist (very warming) red of the once-great reformist party of our democracy. While our community should welcome support from all quarters it was the state ALP under the newby planning minister Kristina Keneally, later progressing to premier (wasn’t the now discredited and jailed Eddie Obeid her strong supporter?) who called in the
West Byron development, thus removing the decision from the hands of Byron Shire Council at the time. The impact of her decision is still reverberating. So Justine, where were you standing and what did you do as a senior party member and local elected representative when the ‘community robbing’ decisions were made and what did you do to wind back such a developer-friendly action? I’ll let the readers ponder that one as the advert-heralded election comes our way. Ian Cohen Broken Head
Coal-fired coalition
Well done, Ms Aslan Shand, acting Echo editor, on your great editorial (July 4 Nats fail farmers). At last a local newspaper has the balls to call this betrayal by conservative elements in this country for what it is. But let’s not stop with just the Nationals; everyone knows they’re hopeless, half of the Liberal Party are just as bad. What a travesty that we’ve been burdened by a federal government that for the last decade has done everything within its power to totally ignore the science
on global warming and on coming to power totally wrecked all existing policy on limiting CO2 emissions and an emerging renewableenergy industry. Even more disgusting is the fact that ‘our’ coal-fired coalition government has been accepting millions of dollars in donations from the fossil-fuel industry to stop or severely disrupt the transition to a low-carbon future. It is political bastardry at its worst. We long-suffering consumers have paid dearly in electricity prices because of the inability of the energy sector to adequately plan for the future, and doesn’t it make a mockery of the government’s claim to have a ‘responsible economic plan for the future’? Now even the dumbest of climate-change deniers are starting to begrudgingly admit what most intelligent people have known for 30 years or more – that the world is heating up. The past five years have been the hottest on record, and 17 of the 18 hottest years on record all occurred this century. There is only one way to fix this mess: GET RID OF THEM. Keith Duncan Pimlico
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