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Wattle Hills Station is hard to access in the dry season, let alone the wet season. Directors of the company that leases the property say that fuel from the generator that services the Wattle Hills radio tower has never been stolen, despite claims from Warren Entsch.
Wattle Hills hurt by Entsch claims
IT seems that the Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch, in the shadow of a looming election, will now say anything to deflect attention away from his long standing failure in providing the Lockhart River community with the safety of essential telecommunication services. Not only has he blamed the Lockhart River mayor Wayne Butcher for his own inability to provide the community with reliable phone/internet services over the course of the last 10 years, but he is now also slandering private Cape York landholders for his failures in telecommunication provision on Cape York more broadly (Cape York Weekly, May 9). Mr Entsch is quoted as saying in a recent interview with ABC Brisbane journalist Steve Austin, “we are trying to by-pass Wattle Hills because we have had problems with fuel disappearing from the generators, there are people helping themselves”. Mr Entsch has deliberately mislead the people of Cape York in this statement. No theft of fuel from the radio tower generator has occurred. To quote Telstra correspondence to Wattle Hills on May 10: “I am not aware of any
fuel theft from Pascoe River Radio Tower in the last 10 years that I have been Manager of NQ Remote for Telstra Global Business Services”. Mr Entsch would know the truth of this matter but has decided to abandon truth for the sake of self-serving political scapegoating. Wattle Hills has disappointedly been used as an unsuspecting target in Mr Entsch’s desperate attempt to distract from his responsibilities. Rather than attempting to divide the Cape York community by spreading falsehoods, he would better serve Cape York residents by representing them honestly, and working constructively and cooperatively with all to provide the services that the rest of Australia takes for granted. State Minister Mark Bailey may have expressed it best in last week’s article, describing Mr Entsch’s outrageous slurs and lies as “a dog act ... and he should be ashamed of himself”. The leaseholder of Wattle Hills, Scudo Pty Ltd eagerly awaits an equally public apology from Mr Entsch. – The Directors, Scudo Pty Ltd