What an interesting thing to happen so close to an Australian election.

I encourage my fellow Australians to vote just as they would have if it didn’t happen.

This is Australia.

The country is large enough and old enough to not be affected by what happens in other parts of the world.

NATIONALS MP Michael McCormack’s recent newsletter states the Coalition spent $2.1 billion in this electorate over the past three years.

If this expenditure is average for the 150 electorates within Australia, then this government over the past few years would have spent/wasted some $300 billion.

Add to this, we are already paying $1 billion a month on our national debt – that equates to $36 billion over the last three years.

I feel some of this money is wasted just to ensure politicians can be re-elected with little thought for the country and our children’s future.

Some time ago, Mr McCormack lamented he was forced to spend a night in a caravan in Cloncurry.

Michael, unless you and other politicians stop wasting our money and think more about the future of this great country, a lot of us will be spending a lot of our days living in caravans.

I WAS somewhat puzzled by the comments attributed to the independent candidate for Riverina (DA, June 28).

He commented that consumers do not know if a product is genetically modified or religiously blessed. 

Is he suggesting that the blessing of food somehow changes its composition?

Does he think that invitations to occasions where a grace may be said should include that information in the invitation? 

After all, grace is a blessing of sorts but I have never heard that grace changes food.

Non-believers extend a respectful courtesy on those occasions, just as everyone should to the dietary rules of any religion.

MOST of our recent PMs have been telling the world how good we are because of our multiculturalism. Not sure if they all believed it. 

It is a bit rough to just blame Malcolm Turnbull. 

If the Labor/Greens coalition were still in power, we would have at least another 50,000 Muslim boat people in Australia. 

I agree our political masters have been short sighted. That is why we are so far in debt. I wish someone would tell Labor/Greens that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was fiction and not a documentary. 

I don’t care if same sex marriage is in or out. As long as they don’t make it compulsory, it is not a problem to me. As far as trust goes, all governments will do what the people want or they get voted out.

Proof of that is the most untrustworthy government in memory was the one that said “there will be no carbon tax in the government I lead”. They were thrown out at the very next election. 

Based on that, I think a plebiscite will carry a bit of weight.

I hope the politician who knifed a PM to install a very untrustworthy politician as PM before he realised his mistake and knifed her as well can be trusted, because somewhere between 48 per cent and 52 per cent of the people are going to vote for his party and that is a worry. I live in hope.