Southern Cross Party Ltd

Traveston Crossing: I'm a real suspicious dude who happens to know the area well. I wondered why Beattie was so set on putting a dam in a totally unsuitable place when there far better sites even in the Gympie area. Then I remembered that Beattie started talking about buying up Cubby Station, useing water as the excuse, when the arse fell out of Cotton and Cubby looked like it might go under. When the cotton price came back he dropped the idea like a hot brick. I figgured, his mates didn't need to sell then.

The only farmer I know of in Australia, who's done real well out of Dairy deregulation has his whole show, farm, dairy, processing plant, the works, smack, bang, in the middle of the new lake. That's if they can ever get the Mary Valley to hold water!

The Multinational companies controling the dairy industry, don't want more cockeys following his example and ultamety putting them out of buisness, in the true spirit of capatilism, do they?

Climate change: I've resigned from The Greens after about 17 years to join Southern Cross. That doesn't mean shit, because most of the genuine people wanting action on the environment, generally get stood over, in the nicest possible way, by a coalition of, the extreme left, animal libbers, feminists, rabid vegatarians and any of that ilk, I've forgotten. However, some of u may have read my greenie letters, in the last 30 odd years in Letters to the Editor. I was published in most daily, weeklie, and a heap of local newspapers in Australia. I stopped writing a few years ago. As soon as the Major media picked up on climate change. They could get the message across far better then I.

I havn't read Flannery, but from what I've heard him and others say his oppion basically agrees with my own.

However, climate change is only an effect. The cause of all environmental degredation is Human Beings. Quite simply; to many of us scurrying after too few resourses.

Frank Brown (no relation to Bob)

PS No spell check, so spelling will be atrocious.