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Bligh's 'Green Army' : Comments
By Jessica Brown, published 17/3/2009Anna Bligh's 'Green Army' won't help Queensland's unemployed during the downturn.
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• Depending on the project some real benefits could be achieved. Consider the Vic fires then consider some of the near residential bush in Qld. Much can’t be burn for many practical reasons. Councils often can’t put enough money into ‘environmental’ employment because of residents’ often misguided priorities. Now there will be both albeit not enough.
• Even if councils have the money it’s not the best use of their funds training the untrained. (capitalist theory)
• Try asking these ‘traineeships’ if they appreciate the opportunity?
• At least it’s money for yakka not a hand out for nix.
• Then there’s the indirect flow on.
• If the projects as one is a tourist walking track at Cape York may be it will earn tourist money.
• Then there’s the environment benefits (plural ask people who work/volunteer or concerned) Koala habitat regen etc. Oops more tourist $.
• (people do not live by exploitation and profit alone)
And these benefits are off the top of my head.
This plan isn’t perfect by any stretch of even my imagination but it’s better than now. By the way where’s the CIS’s mind blowing suggestions. Only a myopic out of touch motive would suggest, intimate that all that ails us can be fixed with a single golden bullet… there is no such a thing as the perfect solution.
I am not a Greenie, Green or ALP voter or even anti conservative I just can’t see the point/value in the miss named CIS’s negative carping…how about some practical improvements to what is proposed on anything.
One other point get out there in the real world and experience what these people experience.
Your grade mark for this at 1st year Uni? Would be “See me later.”