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School relocation
THE RELOCATION of the Riverland Special School has been ongoing since 2004 when the governments wanted to redevelop the existing site when there was around 40 plus students.
Embellished headline
IN REFERENCE to the police report headed 'Teen bashed at fundraiser' in a recent edition of The Murray Pioneer (30/3/10), I would like to express my disappointment in your reporting of the incident.
Opposition Leader Abbott has affirmed his tendency toward double-speak.
"In the heat of discussion, you go a little bit further," Abbott asserted. Only “carefully prepared scripted remarks” should be “taken absolutely as gospel truth”.
I emphatically do not want a leader, a negotiator, a figurehead, a Prime Minister who says one thing “in the heat of discussion”, which Abbott affirms cannot be trusted and says something different when “carefully prepared (and) scripted”.
I want a PM who doesn't back-flip depending on the venue, who doesn’t need a stable of script writers to choreograph every word.
I’m extremely dismayed by many of the Labor Government’s policy changes and priority inversions, but at least Labor don’t fob it off to excesses of “verbal combat,” nor do Labor try to legitimise such untrustworthy practice.
I won’t support a potential leader whose every word I’d have to check whether it were scripted or not.
Moreover, I don’t trust a potential leader who appears content to “go a little bit further” than the truth unless “carefully prepared and scripted”.
This sets an appalling example for Australians of all ages, and makes us a veritable laughing stock.
JUDY BAMBERGER
O’Connor, ACT
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