Fair dinkum, they’re a weird mob around Grafton way. They like nothing better in the idle hours than thinking up ways to do away with democracy or wreck the lower Clarence River.
Here’s a few recent samples from the-poor-are-scum & build-it-and-be-b*ggered brigade….
The government keeps telling us how good our economy is while businesses close their doors so lets see what you think of these ideas.
1/ Voting should be limited to those that are working and paying taxes.If you are unemployed there is no right to vote. The exception being returned service men and aged pensioners. They have earned that right and have the life experiences to sit in judgement.
2/ All welfare payments be conditional to drug testing ............. if you can afford to do drugs you dont need government funding.
3/ Changes in Prime Minister shall come out of THAT politicians pocket. Why should we the tax payer pay for removalsits to and from the lodge? Why should we pay for all the reprinting of stationary? Same for ministers when they change portfolio let THEM pay for their stationary out of their ever swelling pay packet. It is a tax deduction after all!!
So, are the NIMBYS going to form an action group against the proposed More to Goodwood Island rail link or is it something that we will at least take the time to investigate? Goodwood Is. could have been expanded years ago and provided growth for the Clarence with both export and coastal shipping , but the river mouth MUST finally be allowed to be cleared!
LG Olen in a letter to the editor in The Daily Examiner:
"Access from the proposed dual railway line to the foreshores of Lake Wooloweyah {which has no access to the sea that is over a kilometre and a half distant as the crow flies} could well reduce the cost of this {coal port} project by hundreds of millions of dollars. Lake Wooloweyah could well become a major port for international shipping and a doorway for international tourism."
March 24
3 comments:
Love the Lake Wooloweyah coal port plan. To get shipping into the lake a wide, deep canal would have to be created which cuts across Angourie Road - isolating Angourie & Wooloweyah villages and finally turning Yamba into an island attached to the Australian mainland by a single two-lane bridge!
Of all the hare-brained schemes I've ever come across, the plan for a Lake Wooloweyah coal port takes the cake. It's as feasible as turning Susan Island into a container terminal!
Lake Wooloweyah as an international industrial port - I almost expired with mirth when I read Saturday's DEX.
Has no-one told LG Olen that the lake has an average depth of 1.3m and a width of only 1km to 4.5km at its widest point? An international shipping and tourism terminal- what a laugh. A bathtub could cope better!
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