SECESSION NEEDED FOR FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY
The people in the electorate of Murray have been in an ongoing water disaster since the passage of the Water Act in 2007. This disaster is destroying irrigation and associated industries and ensuring the continual loss of employment and removal of people from this area in search of work.
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This disaster has been fully formed and maintained by National, Liberal, Labor and Green politicians. They have all voted for the Water Act and repeatedly declared that the ruinous Basin Plan will be delivered in-full and on-time. A vote for the National, Liberal, Labor or Greens parties is a vote to continue devastating the livelihoods of the people in the electorate of Murray.
The flow of water in productive use out of the Murray Darling Basin must be stopped.
Instead, the quantity of water in productive use must be vastly increased.
However, NSW is so dominated by the population and number of politicians in Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong that even if the National Party is replaced in Murray, this by itself will not improve anything. Politics is numbers, and the numbers are by far and away in Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong, and not here.
The only hope for a prosperous future for the people of Murray is to form the Riverina into a state separate from NSW. A Riverina state will interact with the Commonwealth and other state governments as a state in its own right. This will infinitely increase the capabilities of the people in Murray and the wider Riverina. This state will serve the interests of its own citizens and not the misconceptions of green orientated metropolitan voters.
A referendum of the people of Murray and the wider Riverina on whether to form a state separate from NSW will most likely succeed. The NSW Parliament can be expected to defer to the will of the people and consent to this separation. The consent of the NSW Parliament is the only constitutional requirement of achieving statehood.
A Riverina state is the only guarantee of the survival and prosperity of the people in the Riverina.
David Landini, independent candidate for Murray
HUGE RESPONSIBILITY TO SIT IN JUDGEMENT OF ANOTHER
What a week it has been of upheaval for the Church.
Many say the Cardinal was framed, others feel the result was inevitable.
However the crowd attack on Pell's lawyer was totally out of order but never the less typical angry behaviour by people who were upset, colourful in its language.
The victory was gained, he is now in jail but an appeal will be pursued in the hope of an overturning of the result and although rare, could still happen.
Meanwhile there are no winners.
The victims were stripped of their innocence and this violation is a memory they can't erase.
The Church has been shaken to its very core, shamed out of its complacency, its reputation in tatters and at last made accountable for its actions and lack of them to act upon what was known to it.
The Cardinal is no more able to utilise his material and status achievements both in the church and society.
Instead he is confined to ponder the outcome of this whole sordid mess. The Church's image was allowed to take priority over doing what was right. In the past and even as of late the clergy were considered as incapable of doing any wrong.
They were kept on a pedestal of being purity itself, the congregations worshipped the ground they walked on.
This was the reality of the past and was why back then that these representatives of God were something special to be revered, not questioned.
This week has been a rude awakening for the naive faithful to learn these priests from the past (and others since) are not the angels in disguise after all.
However there is always hope of recovery if the will to attain it still exists. Last week's revelations can be fully accepted and addressed for what they are, sheer treachery of trust.
However, out of bad must come good and this Church must seize the opportunity of a second chance to prove its worth.
It can swallow its pride, reform, regroup and regain its parishioners trust and move forward afresh with a faith that is the substance of things hoped for the very evidence of things unseen.
As the text goes He works in mysterious ways and uses the most unlikely circumstances to bring about what is needed in His sight.
Meanwhile the Cardinal's appeal is not altogether unexpected for he has vigorously maintained his innocence and may well prevail should the appeal uncover evidence that was missed, construed or unavailable.
Juries have on very rare occasions been known to unwittingly get their verdict wrong. This is no fault of their own for they determine their decisions on the evidence placed before them which is all they have to go on.
It's a tremendous responsibility to find oneself sitting in judgement of another. Meanwhile relief has come to those who were abused to see justice being seen to be being done, a rare occurrence these days.
In this case long winded in eventuating for all whom it concerned but nevertheless fruitful in its perseverance.