On the back of Senator Stephen Parry's possible dual citizenship admission, it's no surprise Senator George Brandis focuses on protecting politicians. He says section 44 (i), “sits oddly with the notion of a multicultural democracy”.
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So let's make multiple spouses, bearing arms, banning women from driving, facing Mecca five times a day and wearing a burqa part of our democracy then. I would imagine many Australians would like one or more of those to be law. Then suburbs would become gated communities with strict entrance requirements. Is this what multicultural democracy means?
We can be a multicultural society and respect the cultures of others but democracy applies to all so it needs to be uniform.
Senator Brandis believes the issue needs to be dealt with. How so? Remove it? I like section 44 (i) and it's always been there. The AEC makes it very clear the requirements for standing as a candidate. I'm not sure about all politicians but I learnt to read when I was 5. Responsibility is in such short supply these days.
Anthony Hoffmann
Baranduda
Missing the good old days
Stop and think what we had in the by-election of Murray.
Griffith has so many people from all walks of life.
The NSW politicians and young people who were employed by National and worked in parliament, who knew very little of the history of the MIA and how we had to fight the Liberal and National and our ex prime minister.
And Kay, who took aim at local lady and farmer, who has worked behind the scenes putting submission in regards to the Murray Darling Basin Plan, and in the future plans to take more water away from farming communities 450 gigalitres, which equals 40,500 megalitres.
What will happen in the next drought, will farming communities be left high and dry and the river will run?
The gun debate one has to say, to change the law in regards to guns, one has to be in government and Liberals and National are in government.
To own a gun one has to have a licence, farmers need a gun to protect their sheep from wild dogs, pigs, foxes and crows.
When a lamb is born, the crows pick their eyes and tongue out.
City people have no idea what farming is and how the farmers run their farms.
I had the pleasure of the company of a young man James, who said ‘that Griffith and Albury are prosperous towns and when one travels out to the small towns they are poor”, and I said did they have irrigation?
And James said no, and now you know how important irrigation is, with water we can grow take water away from the communities we will die, that is why we need more dams and the Burrinjuck Dam was built by a Labour government for irrigation for the MIA, very few people knew that.
My parents would travel to Bilbul with a horse and trailer to work.
They had 10 acres of rented land to produce veggies. My father was able to buy a rundown farm and paid cash for the farm and tractor.
The good old days people worked hard and did not have a credit card.
Fran Pietroboni, Griffith
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