Sold down the river
FIRSTLY, having just stayed at Broken Hill and visiting Menindee, I wonder why the word Darling is in the title, because it has been used and abused by idiotic narrow-minded people for their own agenda.
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The result is a dry river and lake system, which is all caused by the premature draining of the lakes in 2013.
Let there be no mistake, the communities and farmers living on the Darling River have been extremely badly let down by current and prior so-called leaders of our country.
So we have another inquiry called.
I pray and hope that after all the cost, the recommendations are acted on.
Farmers and communities in the basin are in survival mode when at this time they should be relishing in the income from irrigated agriculture.
The federal government is crowing about developing Northern Queensland into an irrigated food bowl.
That has about as much chance of eventuating as me flying to the moon.
Most politicians can’t see past the next election and their nice, fat superannuation.
Hang on – what happened to the irrigated food bowl we already have – the Murray Darling Basin?
Well, it has been decimated so it can somehow impossibly have 4000 gigalitres per year flow down it to flush the Lower Lakes, which are well documented as having once being a salt water and fresh water estuary.
The Greens reckon they are all for the environment.
There is hardly any environment on the Darling River because of the destruction they helped cause.
So we look like having a double dissolution. Make your votes count, remembering it was Malcolm Turnbull and the Coalition who began this Murray Darling Basin scam.
Vote for Australia’s future as a massive food producer.
We do not want our future generations’ food choice to only be frozen or out of a can from developing countries still using chemicals banned here for decades.
Peter Gilmour
Cobram
Gay marriage ‘not natural’
DON’T open the door to strangers.
One doesn't know the consequences.
Don't declare two equal to any other number, as well as two, because equal means identical.
Don't declare green equal to red unless traffic chaos is intended.
Before emperors, monarchs and religions, a man left his father and mother and clung to his wife and the two became one.
A marriage ceremony is "a family in waiting" for the two have become "one flesh" and from which shall come the child, who is indeed "flesh of their flesh".
The older generation passes on, and leaves children, grandchildren and perhaps great-grandchildren to be the future, and whose existence came from the receding elders.
This alone is the truth of marriage.
Homosexuals must be allowed to live together and enjoy a variety of benefits – they love, respect and care for each other.
Their quest is to have esteem and recognition, as do married couples.
Their same gender attraction precludes them bearing children (without the input of a third party – surrogate or sperm donor).
Like a number or colour having no other equal, the gay couple union is different to any marriage union, which, of fertility age, does have the potential for motherhood and fatherhood – a natural and basic function of marriage.
To want the state of marriage available to any two persons, regardless of gender, is tampering with truth.
Those who play with matches will get burnt and cause untold destruction.
Prudence warns us, don't tamper with marriage.