The Northern Rivers Times
March 17, 2022
12 LETTERS & OPINIONS
LETTERS, FEEDBACK AND OPINION
DIFFERING VIEWS It looks like Putin and Russia are the
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HELICOPTER NO 027 I watched helicopter No 027 from the ADF make a rescue at Bungawalbin on Tuesday 1st March 2022. What a great bit of perseverance and bravery. The rescuers deserve some recognition. After being dumped chopper the lineman was elevated and attached himself to the patient then promptly took out the TV antennae on the roof of the home the operation was centred upon. The patient and the rescuer were lowered to try again and it was then a successful operation. Great work and appreciation to ADF copter 027 crew in overcoming these
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Australians are now realizing just what an incompetent Govt and a mendacious monster they elected in 2019. We now are bedevilled with an unworkable parliament now in complete chaos; a Deputy PM who openly accuses Morrison of being a hypocrite
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(sprung holidaying in Hawaii instead); he failed to deliver promised adequate supplies of COVID vaccines and RAT tests; he failed to deliver effective quarantine facilities; he failed to deliver strong economic management and tight
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CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change is here and nature telling us it’s time to act now It’s time to start planting trees and not houses from Cairns to Melbourne replacing big scrub country with the red cedar taken out will go a long way to slowing big rain events in the northern Rivers. Our area and that in Queensland can no longer sustain continued clear felling for houses and farming mining etc more storage dams must be built in areas already cleared to have water that would otherwise run into houses and roads stored to be released later into rivers. In addition, a pipeline from some of our rivers to areas out west that always dry could another way of ridding excess water
FAILURE TO DELIVER What will be Scott Morrison’s legacy? (good question). He failed to deliver a Federal ICAC.; he failed to deliver religious protection from discrimination; he failed to deliver LGBTQI school kids protection from discrimination; he failed to deliver strong stable united Govt; he failed to deliver a safe workplace for female workers in the Federal Parliament; he monumentally failed to deliver protection for vulnerable welfare recipients against his own “illegal” Robodebt scheme. He failed to deliver a strong response to Australia’s
the face of massively increasing Govt debt. This failing government deludes itself that popular anger at its failures will dissolve into waves of gratitude under
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and a liar; a previous Liberal treasurer, (Peter Costello) pleading with the Govt to demonstrate
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leadership, a move that Putin describes as
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baddies at the moment but here are some differing comments: - ‘As is being widely reported across the media today, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed on to Russia’s recognition of the individual states of two breakaway regions wishing to leave Ukraine: Donetsk and Luhansk. These regions, with literally centuries of history existing as part of Russia, have reportedly signed a mutual defence treaty with Russia and are asking Russia for assistance in defending themselves against Ukraine, which doesn’t want the regions to separate from Ukraine.’ ‘Putin is not a Globalist and won’t be dictated to by them. He is more interested in re- building the former Russian Empire. Therefore he didn’t bother Trump who isn’t a Globalist either hence the slogan ‘Make America Great Again.’ After the fall of the Soviet Empire Putin was ruthless in eliminating his political opponents by having them murdered. He has also made Russia virtually independent from the rest of the world. He can therefore afford to thumb his nose at the Globalist elite and does little to hide his contempt for whom he sees as the pathetically weak leaders of the West especially Biden.’ ‘The Russian assault on Ukraine was carried out with “surprising” scale and coordination. The effort looks directed at taking out the entire Ukrainian
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LA NINA La Nina takes a back seat while Eastern lows play havoc on the Northern Rivers. Those of us who have experienced major the resulting devastation, understand the trauma many residents of Lismore and surrounding towns are going through at this time. Help, both
through their murderous reigns. Luxury Villas scattered about, palaces
should be at the fore. The people of Ukraine are experiencing a different kind of trauma, one brought to their doors by Vladimir Putin, the megalomaniac from next door, who forced his weigh in with batteries of tanks and rockets, missile launchers by the hundreds plus 200,000foot soldiers armed to the teeth. Within hours Ukraine cities were under siege, missiles, shells and rockets civilian infrastructure causing massive damage, Ukrainian
is certainly not your nicest neighbour, he is a would-be dictator and a wannabe Czar following in the role of countless others, including Stalin, Mao Zedong, Adolph Hitler to name a few who were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and
and billions tucked away in Swiss Banks. We can’t forget Idi Amin who ravaged his country of Uganda of its riches and took refuge in a palace in France leaving behind a freezer containing the frozen heads of some of his opposition. Money in enough quantity will unlock any door. Putin puts on his tough man suit to strut the world stage, he is the MAN in his own mind, he has no empathy, he has no shame, he has no conscience, and he seems to glory in being
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