The sight of the Prime Minister walking through a boggy paddock strewn with dead cattle was heart wrenching.
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The tragedy that is Queensland is really emerging and when the final figures are finally tallied up, this will be a disaster of unprecedented proportions.
It is hard to comprehend half a million cattle have perished along with 30,000 sheep.
Facing such devastating losses, farmers must wonder how they are going to survive.
Beyond the stock losses, homes, sheds, vehicles are all going to require costly repairs or replacement.
The rural sector has been savagely hit, the urban sector too faces the same predicament to repair or replace property, whether it be residential or business.
Hundreds of millions of dollars will be the cost of restoring some semblance of normality.
This is a financial, emotional and ultimately far reaching disaster.
Australia races to the aid of countries suffering disastrous events.
Annually millions of dollars of aid goes overseas to countries like Indonesia.
It is time to look more carefully at financing recovery here at home.
One politician has come out and said all aid going overseas should be stopped immediately and redirected to support the Australian people suffering so severely from our own tragedy.
Who was that politician you ask?
Pauline Hanson.
One can only hope her words don’t fall on deaf ears.
WITS
Australia faces this huge tragedy and all our politicians do is play politics.
Dr Kerryn Phelps suggests the refugees (illegal immigrants) on Nauru are suffering and should be medivaced to Australia on somewhat suspect advice.
Labor, the Greens and independents jump on the Phelps bandwagon seeing a way to embarrass the government.
This was a crazy result potentially having catastrophic effect on our security.
Stupidly, nothing needed fixing.
The Government was handling the situation more than satisfactorily.
There are sixty medical professionals on Nauru (a ratio of 1 to 7 refugees), there are no longer any children and the adult population has been much reduced.
Then there is the claim there had been deaths.
True, twelve.
Two drowned swimming, two in vehicle accidents, one found dead the morning he was to face court charged with the statutory rape of an eighteen year old.
One died in a violent riot, one heart attack and three suicides.
That’s ten, leaving two who both died in a Brisbane hospital – that’s right, a Brisbane hospital.
Nauru was being well catered for and I feel the parliamentarians who supported the Phelps’ proposal could end up with egg on their face.
It might just hide their embarrassment.
WITS
Politicians could almost drive one to drink, then again, an old woman was sipping on a glass of wine while sitting on her patio with her husband.
She says, “I love you so much, I don’t know how I could ever live without you.”
Her husband asks, “Is that you or the wine talking?”
She replies. “It’s me talking to the wine.”
WITS
After twenty-two years of excellent service Barry Coble has relinquished his position as groundsman/maintenance person at Carinya Court.
Barry leaves huge shoes to fill, but filled they must be.
If at all interested in a possible part time job, please have a chat to Trish Riles, they will be looking for someone.
WITS
Harking back to my first piece, politicians should heed the words of Roman lawyer/politician Cicero in 55BC, “Curtail assistance to foreign lands.”
Pauline in 2019AD says the same.
Remember: “Charity begins at home.”
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