Good essay … and I can almost smell the molasses! 'Out on the patio ... we sit ...'

Although Brisbane born and bred, both my parents were from North Queensland and I’ve had an ongoing affectionate contact with the region since the seventies. Over that period, it’s moved with the times – as with anywhere else.

What is sad is that we even need to write and read essays like this. But they are a necessary reality check in a nation where metropolitan interests dominate our cultural debates and reduce our vibrant regional centres to the status of provincial ‘otherness’.

What I like most about Queensland as a state is that, unlike Victoria and New South Wales in particular, it has retained a healthy metropolitan-regional balance. I’d hate to see the rise of the mega-SEQ juggernaut put this balance under serious threat

Enjoyed this. Contrary to pop opinion, FF aren't serious contenders. It's people like Katter and the late Peter Andren who know that local issues over ride neo-lib agendas by the big two parties.

Good point about southern money and the gays, grey ghosts and the cornucopia of interest groups. Nth Queenslanders (espc on the coast) are a diverse lot but at the end of the day, they'll go with a candidate who is credible (there goes FF) and who will advocate for locals.

I believe both Nth Queensland and SA are prime states for independents to have a crack at both houses of Federal parliament.

Australia, as you reason your vote, remember us.

Regions like Cooktown and Cape York have but a tiny voice.

Consider why we ask for meaningful change.

Wilson’s article names the geo- complexities well.

On the positive side, Cook Shire is vast with a tremendous future. A small populace enthusiastic, a local enterprise wanting. Mixed agriculture begs for water. There is potential in cottage industry and the cultural arts, for life-style living and tourism.

However, we need thoughtfulness to counterpoise this rough rugged land. It is the crocodile-hunters cold-bred hunger and a puppets bias that holds back our sustainability in normal everyday things.

On a dark side, there is a shadow. Something explicable, dictative, unyielding and stern. Injustice shrouds a weary smile deep, worn against a reddening sky.

Our leadership is grass sour. Its energy resentful, fermenting, smoking, cheerless without due flame.

Regions like Sydney, Melbourne, or the NT are not the only areas experiencing cold-blooded callous cohesive breakdowns.

Rural regions suffer when a political climate becomes bankrupt of its true representation and need for balance.

Remember how democracy was battled in Orwell’s ‘Lord of the Flies?

Remember the leadership struggle for power, and how seriously one sides exploitation impeded the human state and survival of the other.

Are we but to remain like animals of the fringe to be slayed in the dead of night?

Populations starving of “fairness” is a sign of neglect, and in a democracy, this is ever serious.

It takes a political election, with all eyes watching, to instigate fairness, a trade for productive change.

‘If men alone define the situation as real, they are real in their consequences’. These oats sow desire, status, domination, a hunger for their own sense of self-righteousness on all matters to maintain a grip on their political security.

I am no crusader, and my blood is worth more than the raspberries the Liberals offer for pudding.

See Part Two of this miacat Paste Below
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Wake Up Australia, we have some dishonourable unclean Politico’s.

To contine a watchful gaze on the inhouse version of a story extended from above... and for the minds of just due citizenships, I continue sharing the connections through the following;

“Teddy Bears Hiding and Failing to Share the Picnic”.

http://www.miacat.com/Media_Pan_One/REGIONAL_Pacific_News/Local_Cape_York/Shire_Matters/Shire_Matters_1.htm

With an arrow of might, justified and with directive purpose, here’s the politics dressed in its subtleness. Give it ground level intricacy. The tad is mis-spelt for its discomfort as the idiosyncratic speaks NAIF of a Ms Elsie Phillips (ALIAS) to expose a public crime structural, seriously juxiposed in the repression of herstory.

“DO WE HAVE A PROBLEM?”

http://www.miacat.com/Media_Pan_One/REGIONAL_Pacific_News/Local_Cape_York/New_campaign/Do_We_Ck_Letter_Open.asp

Put fourth to rest argument, on what we already know, be it so placed on the sleeve of your responsibility. Described openly of a developing science, where knowledge can lead us forward;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_disorganization_theory

And as miacat plays for the citizen of the day, her motive for life is clearly on the desk of those whom we wish to steer;

“Open Letter to PM HOWARD AND MR KEVEN RUDD”

http://www.miacat.com/Open%20Letter_Sept_14th.htm

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Orwell wrote 1984. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies.

MLK and Cheryl - thanks. I agree that NQ is misrepresented in metropolitan outlets, and that it may well be fertile ground for independent and third party MPs if they get the politics right. Miacat - thanks, I think - best of luck with bringing attention to issues up in Cook shire. Jason .

Crime Prevention ? Who gets what protection and why Australia?

Crime prevention is a term describing techniques used for reducing victimization, to deter and reduce crime.

Howard's spent millions and millions of public well earned coins on propaganda. Through television, newspapers and direct junk mail.

This government ignores all calls for more to be spent to protect civilians from systematic crime.

Howards government pays others to bash unions. Points fingers, naming blaming, shaming, unjustly smearing Australia's National politics.

Public servants are paid to act as savage dogs hunting, sniffing, snaring teeth out on an enemies blood. The efforts spent cravenness, mission? To mule its prey.

A same federal party that detains, defames a foreign doctor, misusing our nations governance laws. A media bliz, serving its own-sake, mirrored historical. This act is pretensive, a characterized unconscionable maleness working, a structurally abusive power?

Violated is good Federal governance. Our principles of community justice, tilted conveniently, a reduced schoolyard, the person then locked into the scandalous . The burden on proof.

This costs the taxpayer. All livelihood ignored. As Liberals aim the targets, victimizing in cowardice, reproducing more chains of waste and uncalulated pain.

Be it the funds spent for anti-terror adds, or those used underhand ineradicable. These Liberals are unbridled, misusing sovereign powers.

Does it have our permission to wage us all into some kind of repression, tame us with this projective form of cold civic game?

If only Howards Team needs a focus on real crime prevention rather than terror.

Give us, the community the same access you give your dog like investigators, to uncover the structually based, community crimes.

Who is Ms Elsie Phillips (Alias) Mr Howard? . Is she not the same, who clones the methods of media, to sway cause for the public's eye to cause a dysfunction? (see miacat post above)

Why did your government not spent the dollars to investigate her?

And what about those behind Centerlink. Those nameless ones slackened behind the call centre's, who blacklist or refuse to transfer the equitable rights of citizens.

The justice hushed is a productive administration blind.

http://www.miacat.com
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Which brings me to my next point.

Dont do drugs.

Look if you want to sit up in Cooktown on the dole defending a bloody terrorist and dribbling on about god knows what then thats your perogative however.

Regional development north of the coal fields has been pretty grim for years. Roads and infrastructure in the north is a bloody joke as anyone who has driven a truck to Weipa will attest to.

We are second class citizens up here and should by rights have our own state with the capital in Coen so the pollies understand everytime they drive home how bad the roads are.

if Charlie Mac Killop loses in Leichhardt, it won’t be because of her gender or sexual orientation, but because she failed to negotiate the intricate process of convincing the seat that she has what it takes as a politician to represent them.

Not quite correct as the Liberal Party candidate was involved in some very smelly conduct with Mr Stench in order to get preselected and a good majority of the members of the local Liberal Party will not be voting for her and many have resigned in protest. It would appear that her time in Ruddocks office had more to do with why she was to be the person who shall be preselected at what ever cost.
If she gets elected she will end up a smelly as Stenchy as he had worn out his welcome long ago and was lucky to survive the Petition commenced in the High Court that had his election in the last Federal election put to the test in the private hearing conducted by one of the not so honourable justices, who was actually appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, in his own private court sitting in persona designata jurisdiction.
The decisions and orders made in this sham Tribunal by the referee, who cloaked his work in the neutral colours of a judicial action in the Federal Court of Australia with the IMPLIED CONSENT of the Petitioner, did not have to be obeyed and have no legal force or effect and the show trial was conducted at the expense of Stenchy, who could not even defend himself as he had no defence, as no costs have been paid, as directed by Mr John Alfred DOWSETT, by the Petitioner who is now standing as an independent just to rub salt into the $15,000.00 wound.