The Write Direction: It’s hard to be fair and reasonable

WHEN you live in a small community and basically know or are known by the majority of its population, then you express a strong opinion at your own peril.

If you seek to survive in this society, it is imperative that you are fair and reasonable to all sides of the political and social divide.

My choice is to detail an issue, say how we got here, and then offer a number of choices as to how the problem could be dealt with.

In relation to the issue of supply and the price of liquid fuel, I need to say that our government appears to be doing all within its power to source supply and distribute it rationally so all can have reasonable access.

Having said that, I will comment on Opposition Leader Angus Taylor’s recent speech where he provided thoughts on how our immigration scheme could be changed under a Liberal/National government.

In short, his vision is to move towards being a smaller Australia rather than the present government’s view of creating a much larger Australia through its immigration policy.

We now have two different directions by opposing political forces.

What I would like to see are many more policies that can be debated by the public, in order for governments to hear what the community really thinks.

What we have at the present time is different thoughts and preferences being used to divide the population into two groups of so-called socialist lefties, or right-wing capitalists.

And if you express a view contrary to those held by your neighbor, then you are branded for life as being in one

camp or the other.

There is a third alternative; the radical or difficult group of policy disciples who can never form government but seem to take comfort from being disrupters and confusers of the system.

As a nation, it is becoming harder to be governed in a rational and sensible way; proving that in our political system, it’s hard to be fair and reasonable.

By John BLACKBOURN