Dave Groves
This Hag: Dear Jeff sounds like another sound investment that will see the Tasmanian people through the hard times.
Why do we continue to always seek to pour money into the factory option on this tiny island as if it is our golden goose?
• The TT’s cattle transport, Spirit of Tasmania 1,2,3 …
• Generic MIS monoculture to feed the proposed forest abattoir.
• Various mines and smelters.
• Potatoes to multinational chip fryers.
• Interstate football teams.
I can only cringe at the thought of the next brainwave to befall Tassie.
Perhaps a plastic bumper bar factory or a production line tying shoelaces into $15 joggers … the mind boggles.
Tassie is a speck on the world deck, but for now its power is in the niche realm.
Trouble with that is the bevy of captains that fumble and stumble at the tiller are intent on running us aground on the rocky shores of any paradigm that is high volume, low return and involves as much unskilled labour as can be mustered.
As poisons cover our island and enter by stealth into our water catchments, partnered by silt washed from clear felled slopes of prime agricultural land, erosion of our options to reverse the retarded and blinkered objectives of the trough swillers looms large on the world radar.
All eyes on Tasmania, we are perched atop the last Regnans while the gaping jaws of the pulp mill salivate, the “naysayers” plead for sanity and the masses dressed flamboyantly in tribal garb have eyes averted from reality as they feverishly await the referee’s whistle.
Division by stealth, opium for the masses, fear of the road less travelled and curiously prevalent in a time of high employment and financial buoyancy the fabled catch cry from dark days long gone … ”jobs“ … are tools of the leaders who hypnotise and manipulate the population to keep innovation, lateral thought, true happiness and unity buried and locked far deeper than any mining operation will ever go.
Until mindset undergoes change in Tasmania, we will never be clever, clean or green, self supporting or even remotely sustainable. We will only try to piggy back a ride on these ideals, never embracing holistically the concept.
We will only ever be a state dependent on welfare, hand outs from the north rock, factories and football.
If I was the government — or the ineptly named opposition for that matter — I would be deeply embarrassed in this day and age, with all the potential this state has, to ever think of holding out my hand for crumbs to hold our now fragile infrastructure in place.
We can be and should be self supporting.
What is wrong with these imbeciles we trust our futures to?
Blinkered bureaucrats with no business acumen, social ineptitude and rigid community effacing ideology are the keepers of our future.
What good have they done?
What is their plan for our future?
Where are their thoughts? …
At the footy, the racetrack or the casino or the next big box jumble sale?
Tasmania on hold … can someone hit the play button?
