On Saturday, August 10th in Sydney, the Moderator of the NSW.ACT Synod of the Uniting Church in Australia led a lament for what has been done recently to ban all boat people from settling in Australia.
The lament, "Were you there when they turned the boats away?" was movingly sung.
This banning of all these courageous boat people has been initiated and endorsed by both the parties competing for government in this forthcoming Federal election.
In recent days, both these parties have been bullying us into voting for either of them to form a majority government so they can have the numbers to implement this inhumane policy.
They have formed a duopolistic cartel in order to exclude from the Australian Parliament any Member who would vote from conscience and not follow the party line.
It is to our shame that we are allowing whatever Government we elect to continue to treat asylum seekers as human trash to be swept under the rug of neighbouring nations weaker than ourselves.
The election appears to be close enough for these major parties to buy their votes from swinging seats to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
My prayer is that the good people of NSW will vote this time with conscience rather than with expediency.
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Business drives congestion!
Dear Editor
Mr John Alexander, MHR for Bennelong, has nominated reduction of traffic congestion through tax incentives as one of his top five achievements (NDT 10 July 2013) since taking office in 2010.
However, if anything, traffic congestion has increased since the previous Federal election so we will need to know exactly what has been achieved on his watch.
The nub of the matter is that business itself drives congestion. Business thrives on consumer critical mass therefore employees are forced to travel along already congested routes to and from work. Hence congestion keeps feeding upon itself and all transport planning can do is try vainly to catch up.
We need to hear more about these tax incentives that our sitting member and his rival candidates propose.
It is inevitable that congestion taxes must come to greater Sydney with corresponding tax deductions for business to flourish in regional areas outside the metropolitan area.
The people of Bennelong need breathing space and some one who will stand up for us against this disease of urban over-development and those who profit from it.
Yours faithfully,
Mr John Alexander, MHR for Bennelong, has nominated reduction of traffic congestion through tax incentives as one of his top five achievements (NDT 10 July 2013) since taking office in 2010.
However, if anything, traffic congestion has increased since the previous Federal election so we will need to know exactly what has been achieved on his watch.
The nub of the matter is that business itself drives congestion. Business thrives on consumer critical mass therefore employees are forced to travel along already congested routes to and from work. Hence congestion keeps feeding upon itself and all transport planning can do is try vainly to catch up.
We need to hear more about these tax incentives that our sitting member and his rival candidates propose.
It is inevitable that congestion taxes must come to greater Sydney with corresponding tax deductions for business to flourish in regional areas outside the metropolitan area.
The people of Bennelong need breathing space and some one who will stand up for us against this disease of urban over-development and those who profit from it.
Yours faithfully,
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