It is not easy. Wins have been had and mistakes have been made. Governments of all persuasions have taken different tracks and the political spin has been on full cycle.
One day in the future, hopefully when the battle has been won, we will look back on our leaders and judge who made the best call.
I think it is time to call one aspect now for what it is — punishment and social isolation continuing to be inflicted on those in our community who choose not to be vaccinated.
I get that it was a tactic to lift national vaccination rates, I understand they may be effective but to continue to discriminate against individuals on the basis of their choice not to be vaccinated must stop.
I have a selfish agenda; my industry, fruit growing, is desperately short on workers. There are at least five per cent of the population over 16 and unvaccinated that might consider work mostly outdoors and help us.
The stubbornness of the state government is stopping them from participating — even in work places where infection is minimised by virtue of the conditions of the workplace — outside in orchards.
The fruit industry was one of the first group of sectors where vaccination was made mandatory and overnight many people were prohibited from seeking employment in an outdoor, low-contact industry.
Surely this can now be relaxed?
It’s a very bad state to be in, plenty of work but desperate people shut out from helping.
I would call on the Andrews Government to have some humility, review their approach and allow people presently prohibited from basic labouring to join our community again.
Peter Hall, Mooroopna
Change or changeable?
I am deeply concerned that many of us are being brainwashed into believing that we are in a disastrous climate change.
Despite what the activists are trying to tell you, quoting computer models, science tells us that climate is relatively stable; just reliably unreliable and very changeable as it has always been.
I recommend you read books by Professor Ian Plimer (University of Adelaide), Australia’s best known geologist. His books help us understand how much deceit, misinformation and outright lies are being fed in the name of saving the planet, and how much it will eventually cost the nation and the taxpayer.
Closing Australian power stations will have no effect on global carbon dioxide emissions but will have a severe negative effect on the economy of Australia.
As we continue to venture down the path of green energy that is continually costing the end user, let these companies finance their own structures and not have our government spending billions helping them to make money. For instance, in Queensland there is a huge wind farm about to be constructed and it is claimed the government is subsidising each tower to the tune of $500,000.
I would far sooner my government spend that money building modular nuclear power plants that supplied reliable power 24/7 so that industry could confidently build manufacturing businesses producing products for home consumption and export and providing long-term jobs.
Climate change is not a scientific or environmental issue, it is a political movement, that it driven by the so-called green movement that is really a worldwide socialist movement looking to distract the Western world from the rise of socialism and overthrow of democracy.
Our family has been farming in Australia since the late 1800s. My son and I will continue to farm in a no-till sustainable way and our sheep will graze our pastures in an environmentally friendly manner, and leave our country in better shape than when my Grandfather Blyth took it over.
Donald J. Douglas, Barham, NSW
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