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Fair enough!

Gina Rinehart writingin the Australian Spectator - article worth reading Jan 24

Gina Rinehart has written an excellentarticle (“Blind Freddy can see what politicians cannot” in the AustralianSpectator. i I have posted it here & I hope the editor doesn’t mind.
I still puzzle as to why the leftist medialoves to call me an ‘heiress’. My dad’s estate was bankrupt and he’d sold mostof his shares in our company and spent almost all the proceeds while stillalive. Even more puzzling is how the leftist media seem to think that once thegovernment awards tenements to a mining company, it’s easy pickings – afterdoing nothing much but digging a few holes, they seem to think that the moneyflows in. The reality is that the vast majority of tenements never make it tobecome mines. As Blind Freddie knows, that means no cash flowing anywhere butout.
Last year was a challenging one for ourprimary industries, with more and more interventions from the government, andmany of those living in the city not understanding the import or cost of theseinterventions.
In agriculture, it’s no longer dangerousfires, droughts and floods that are the main problem, it is the man-madeproblems. Government-made ones.
Onerous regulations restrict farmers frombeing able to protect their families, staff, pets, homes and investment frombushfires because governments dictate firebreaks of inadequate dimensions.
Governments also dictate the building ofvast tracts of solar panels, wind farms, and transmission lines to traversefarming land. It is estimated by the IPA that one-third of prime agriculturalland could be at risk. What do governments and the media think this will do tothe price and availability of fresh food? Perhaps some of these renewableeyesores could be placed in city parks, rivers and on city beaches to giveinner-city folk a better idea of their visual and physical impact; but ofcourse there’s no chance of that happening because that’s where the majority ofvoters live.
And although farmers are upset, andfrightened by the fire risks posed by solar panels, and don’t like thebird-killing wind turbines being placed on their properties, this is just theprelude to the impossible financial burden awaiting them under net-zeropolicies. For a typical outback station to replace, for instance, all itsexisting vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs) will cost the owner betweenapproximately $10.4 and $11.5 million, not to mention whatever compliance finesmay be levied. Some of the EVs required haven’t even been produced yet.
But there’s more. If your station has,say, fifty windmills, which are essential to get the daily water that stockneed to survive, and you are required to change those to solar pumps at $70,000a pop, that’s another $3.5 million.
And it doesn’t stop there. Stations run ondiesel-fuelled generators, so if you change them to solar panels you will alsorequire expensive giant batteries. And as farmers well know, the sun doesn’tshine at night.
How many farms and stations will be ableto pay for all this? How many farmers and pastoralists could afford net-zeropolicies, without a mining company in their back pocket?
Blind Freddie can see, all such costs andmore of net zero would need to be passed onto city folk.
Will inner-city voters still be happy whenforced to eat inferior quality food coming from overseas that is not as freshas they have long been used to, and not produced with our clean air and water,nor to our high environmental and health standards?
When primary industries are forced tocarry onerous government burdens, Blind Freddie knows the costs must be passedon to consumers. In the case of local councils, higher costs ultimately meanhigher rents and fewer services.
Then there’s payroll tax. If you think itdoesn’t affect you, that it’s just something businesses pay, well guess what?As Blind Freddie knows, that cost is also passed on to you.
And even if you don’t own a car, theexcise on fuel adds to inner-city costs because everything consumed requirestransportation, and that requires fuel. It’s hard to think of anything thatisn’t touched by the government’s fuel excise. Committing to abolishing this‘nasty tax’ would help immensely with the rising costs of living.
Australians are dealing with the risingcost of food, energy, fuel, housing and so much more. Yet too often, ratherthan helping to alleviate these pressures, government policies add to them.
Take our pensioners, the vast majority ofwhom are sadly going through distressing times. How we can do this to ourelderly is beyond me. They should be allowed to work if they want to, and asoften as they want to, without upper limits on hours, and without onerous,complicated paperwork, and discriminatory rates of tax imposed on them simplyfor trying to improve their living standards.
My blood boils that our veterans, who haveserved our country, many risking their lives, are also faced with complicatedpaperwork, and unfair discriminatory taxes if they work hours beyond what isokayed by the Canberra bureaucracy. It means that many live in poverty, evenhomelessness, thanks to government restrictions on how long they can work.
As for our uni students, they need realwork to build up experience and so they can save money to buy a safer car, orput towards a home. Students should also be permitted to work as many hours asthey wish.
Why, with a worker shortage crisis, recorddebt, and rising living costs, can Blind Freddie see what should be permitted,but our government cannot?
We need policies that help Australians. Weneed policies that make investment in our country worthwhile. If we have anyinterest in maintaining our living standards we should be doing what othercountries do and roll out the red carpet for investment. Expensive government-fundedtrade trips and trade personnel located overseas are a waste of money unlessgovernments cut the costs and delays caused by government red tape. And BlindFreddie can see that the forcing the overburdened taxpayer to fund lawfare doesnothing to encourage investment.
The old but true law of supply and demand stillapplies; if you decrease the supply of a commodity, such as gas, while demandremains the same or increases, it’s inevitable that prices will increase. Theway to reverse this is not by government intervention, but in fact the opposite– by removing red tape and negative policies and encouraging the investmentneeded to bring on more supply. It’s time for common sense.

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She is right.
Which is why the left hate her. Like they hate anything successful.
Blind Freddie seems to get a bit of a bashing though
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