JOB HUNT DISHEARTENING
I HAVE said it before and I will say it again, I do not understand the attitude of our two major political parties. Democracy is the voice of the people and if the people vote for other candidates, it is the moral duty of the potentially incumbent government to work with them. As per Dr Colette Harmsen's letter on climate change (The Examiner, April 16), young people are terrified for their future due to the global desecration created by previous generations.
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Smaller parties and independents would not be so prevalent if voters were satisfied with the party lines of LNP and ALP who both blatantly pander to the fossil fuel industry.
It is now, as it has been for decades, time to stop this bat and ball mentality by the major parties; stop behaving like toddlers refusing to work with minor parties, if are getting votes it's for a reason. Teamwork, collaboration and compromise are ideal workplace commitments and should be aimed for in all areas. Young people need to be listened to and respected, it is their future you are voting for whether it be terrifying weather conditions, a devastated, impossible to enter the housing market, a crumbling health system or a blatantly inequitable education system. We are failing young people and they are the future, things need to change.
Joe Stevens, Beauty Point.
POLITICAL PRIORITIES
WITH homelessness on the rise and tent villages appearing in ever-increasing numbers under our city's bridges, have any of the major parties given thought to funding some facilities wherein those in need can have a warm shower and toilets available to them on a 24-hour basis? Perhaps even have the safety of patrons monitored by enlisting a security firm acting in some sort of caretaker-supervisory role? With both a federal election and winter looming, surely money promised in this space would be well spent? I understand the social issues relating to affordable housing and housing availability are complex and let's face it, it does not have any quick fix on the horizon anytime soon.
Funding commitments prioritised to projects like this would definitely get my vote and I am sure the votes of many others who have any sort of social conscience.
Todd Lambert, Devon Hills.
LIBERAL PARTY
HERE is clear evidence of how the Liberal political mind works. Labor going into debt to steer us successfully through the global financial crisis are guilty of a "phenomenal debt" according to Don Davey (The Examiner, April 9). While the Liberals in choosing exactly the same policy to steer us through the COVID crisis in general have done better than almost every other country worldwide.
Mr Davey's hypocrisy continues unbounded in accusing Anthony Albanese of empty promises and character assassination, while ignoring the major broken promise of them all by the coalition: the promise of an integrity commission. The ABC also cops it while ignoring the fact that this government has been in power nine years and is subject to fair criticism much of which of late is coming from its ranks. As for Mr Albanese being an unknown quantity, this is complete rubbish. He has among other things been a parliamentarian for 25 years, a Minister for Infrastructure, a Deputy Prime Minister and an acting Prime Minister. The incumbent Scott Morrison has a headline every day.
This gives him a much higher profile.
However, n no way does it justify his or Mr Davey's barefaced inference that he is too inexperienced for the top job.
Tony Newport, Hillwood.
REVERSING GLOBAL WARMING
THE scientists and the United Nations tell us we are in a global warming emergency. We need to decrease the CO2 emissions in the world by about seventy per cent by 2030.
The best plan that I've come across so far to do this is that of Jeremy Rifkin in his book The Third Industrial Revolution. He plans to convert the buildings in the cities of the world into mini power plants, collecting power from solar and wind energy and from treatment of waste. The electricity produced is stored in hydrogen fuel cells and batteries.
A smart grid is built using internet communication technology which taps into power from the buildings so it can be shifted wherever it is needed 24/7. The global transport fleet of cars, trucks, trains and so on can transition to low CO2 emissions by using the power from these buildings for plug-in or fuel cell vehicles. This plan will lead to very low CO2 emissions and needs to be carried out over the next few years. It is the big emitters, China and the USA, and some lesser emitters that need to act as they are causing the biggest disruption. Also, they need to act because their emissions determine how severe our fire and floods are here in Australia.