NO REGARD FOR CONSEQUENCES
LAST year I wrote to federal Opposition leader Anthony Albanese to inquire why buyers from overseas were encouraged to purchase properties in Australia without any regard or consequences for our own people in search of a home of their own.
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I also included a large ad placed in the Domain by a well known real estate agency seeking prospective sellers to contact them, as they were proposing to send agents to Asia to entice buyers of such.
I ask why these unfair practices were allowed to occur when people have no intention of ever becoming Australian citizens, their main aim is to make money.
Not only do the hopeful home owners have to contend with this, but here in Tasmania we have the very greedy mainlanders purchasing property as fast as they can. They then charge exorbitant rents, where most cannot afford so is it any wonder that there is much homeless - and the government just refuses to take notice.
We are now in a tragic situation of homelessness and of many not knowing the reality of ever owning their own slice of heaven, and having a home of their own.
I would have appreciated a reply from Mr Albanese, but it wasn't to be, as I have long come to the conclusion that most pollies do not appreciate being put on notice.
Jo Ford, Legana.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
JOHN Coulson complains that Aborigines have the same rights as private property owners to keep deciding who comes onto our returned lands.
He thinks that Aborigines getting stolen lands back is a privilege that others don't receive, even though they did not have their lands stolen. How did we lose our lands?
Well, typical was how Teebelongeter was abducted as a girl from Little Swanport and had both legs broken at time of her abduction. She died after being exiled to Wybalenna in 1834.
VDL workers killed 12 Peerapper while they slept at a camp in 1827 and then, on February 9, 1828, killed men, women and children at slaughter bay, Cape Grim, when they massacred them all and threw their bodies down the precipice, many of them perhaps, but slightly wounded.
When Aborigines petitioned the government in 1883 for land rights all we got was the racially discriminatory Cape Barren Reserve Act.
Ray Groom, Jim Bacon and Paul Lennon have been exceptional leaders on the point, but since their time successive governments have been pretty well aligned with Mr Coulsen's view because no stolen lands have been returned for 15 years.
I wonder if they would show the same disinterest if their lands had been stolen?
Michael Mansell, Aboriginal Land Council.
POLITICAL STUNT BLOW UP
LIKE him or loathe him, columnist Andrew Bolt has summed up the "no case" against Attorney General Christian Porter superbly. A copy of his statement should be sent to the Opposition leader Anthony Albanese and the entire federal Labor party. Maybe they would then perhaps realise how absurd their call for an independent inquiry is.
Bolt has obviously done his homework on the case, as have the police investigators who found no admissible evidence to proceed with a prosecution. A gross waste of time and money that could be used to clean up the Tamar. This political stunt has well and truly blown up in Albanese's face and if he has any sense he and his party would shut their mouth and find something more constructive to devote their time too.
Bruce Webb, Launceston.
QUESTIONS OVER POSTAGE
I WOULD like Australia Post to explain this to me. On Monday, March 8 I posted a letter from the Exeter Post office to Patersonia. It finally arrived on March 17. We deserve better.
Ella Miller, Lanena.
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