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Labor, how do I loathe thee?

By John Mikkelsen - posted Tuesday, 7 May 2024


Again, they have found an unusual ally in the ABC's usually left-wing Media Watch, where presenter Paul Barry actually agrees with Musk, the Bishop and even right-wing commentator Andrew Bolt (shock horror!)

More recently, we had the horrific attack and robbery of an elderly woman, Ninette Simons, in her own home allegedly by one of the 154 former detainees released into the community, including 37 sex offenders and 72 violent offenders including an assasin, following a High Court ruling last year.

Your ministers originally claimed your government had opposed his release on bail but that was subsequently found to have been a lie - he had been arrested and released back into the community no less than three times including a few days before the alleged attack, with no opposition to bail.

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He had also not been required to wear an ankle bracelet but you blamed your so-called independent Community Protection Board for that decision even though your minister has the ultimate say and responsibility for board decisions.

For days after the attack, Ministers Giles and O'Neil ducked for cover, prompting a quip from Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie, "It's easier to find the ex-detainees than the responsible ministers…"

As if all the above isn't enough to turn a large percentage of the public off, we also now have the spectacle of how you splash taxpayer funds by the industrial skip load to support highly questionable, virtue signalling private business start-ups.

These include $1billion for the Quantum Computer facility in Brisbane proposed by a company based in the US (PsiQuantum), pushed by Labor-mate lobbyists, and with the Queensland Labor Government of grinning Steven Miles also on board.

This follows $1 billion for the solar panel manufacturing business in the NSW Hunter Valley that billionaire shareholders Mike Cannon- Brookes and ex- PM Malcolm Turnbull apparently couldn't risk with their own funds to launch, the green hydrogen pipe dreams in Gladstone, Townsville and elsewhere - you name it, if it's claimed to help get us to "net zero" you and Chris 'Blackout' Bowen will back anything; except reliable and safe modern nuclear power. This still remains on the banned list despite growing public support here, and its proliferation in many other overseas states and nations which recognise "renewables" don't align with reality and reliability.

But it's ok to purchase three nuclear submarines under the Aukus deal, which will be berthed and serviced in Australian ports. Go figure..

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Finally, to plagiarize Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous poem, How do I Love Thee, to sum up your government's performance, just change one crucial word :

How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.
I loathe thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I loathe thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light

 

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John Mikkelsen is a long term journalist, former regional newspaper editor, now freelance writer formerly of Gladstone in CQ, but now in Noosa. He is also the author of Amazon Books memoir Don't Call Me Nev.

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