Poor Fi Nash – 2012 is overwhelming her early and she’s so fearful for
Regional Australians are fed up
THE year 2012 has just started and already the Labor Government's agenda will impact on regional communities.
The government again flagged its intention to try to means-test the private health insurance rebate, putting more pressure on the already stretched public health system in regional areas.
Volunteers will be subject to unreasonable work, health and safety laws.
Small business is drowning in red tape, and a leaked report proposes regional airlines at Sydney Airport be moved out to Bankstown.
The agriculture sector faces proposed water cuts in the Murray Darling Basin, increasing foreign ownership of prime land and assets, cuts to live animal export permits to Indonesia, and a worrying shortage of graduates and skilled workforce.
The manufacturing and retail sectors are struggling and jobs are going in regional areas.
All of this is made worse by a carbon tax that starts in July and mounting government debt.
Regional Australians are fed up with being treated like second-class citizens.
The Nationals will fight on their behalf for a fair go.
Senator Fiona Nash
The Nationals Senator for NSW
The year is also addling her brain, as in this letter to The Daily Examiner published on 3rd February shows she doesn’t realize that:
· in-patients with private health cover are already being treated in regional public hospitals
· proposed national harmonized health and safety laws which will codify existing common and compilate state law only apply to volunteer organizations which actually employ people and all volunteers have a right to be safe
· dog whistles about small business red tape and Sydney Airport have been blown so frequently that the sound is barely noticed these days
· few people have any sympathy for a live cattle industry which took its eye off the ball and allowed animal cruelty to become matter of course
· regional manufacturing and retail sectors were in decline on the Lib-Nats watch as well as under Labor - ditto for skills shortages and increased foreign ownership of agricultural land
· in crude terms Australia’s national ‘bank balance’ is still much larger than its debts, some of that debt is state government borrowings on which the federal government acts as guarantor, most of the foreign debt on the books is borrowings by the private sector, and the whole pile was at times much higher under the Howard Government than it is now
· most of us want to see something done about slowing climate change and protecting the Murray-Darling Basin
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