Vikki Campion: ‘We are losing the family farm to a countryside of corporations’
The Green apostles will be preaching at the polling booth chanting the end is nigh. If we stop farming and mining then our exports plummet, our dollar is smashed, and the opportunity for young families is taken away, Vikki Campion writes.
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They present as the genteel botanist but behind a pseudonym act more like the officious socialist, kneeling on the pew at the chapel of Twitter wailing for salvation.
They have traded in their belief in God with a belief in government because that’s the deity that delivers for them. Faith has never been so blind. They demand deliverance from bushfires and climate change and coronavirus.
The verses of their bible are regulations and thou shalt nots include owning property, making money and being a free private individual.
Their children are taught that the grand cathedral is Parliament House and all good and bad emanates from there. Its purpose is not to be released from the circle of life but to get comfort from the blanket of bureaucracy.
They have faith in their government to provide for them when times are lean. JobKeeper is more righteous than jobs that are actually available and not filled such as fruit picking, gardening and cleaning.
Instead of the deadly sins of lust, pride, sloth, avarice and envy we have the sins of capitalism, fishing, farming and mining.
They tell the government, the mortal sin is the farmer losing fertiliser and topsoil on the reef and they froth into rage at the injustice — until the senate inquiry reveals that is not the case.
They tell the government, the apostasy is the landholder who takes too much water, who cuts down too many trees, who grazes too many cattle, which emits the evil emissions, and that’s why the bushfires burn so wildly — until experts show it was excessive fuel-load caused by lack of back burning.
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A thousand small guilts can be absolved by blaming a farmer.
In their faith, if it doesn’t rain — they caused it. It rains too little — they caused it. It’s too hot — they caused it.
Opposing views are “triggers” and they want no civil discourse but to cancel a difference in opinion so they broaden their minds listening to themselves on the ABC — another government-owned entity. They don’t try to win the people they try to gain influence at the highest echelons of government.
Cows are killing koalas. Farmers are killing the reef. Coal is killing the planet.
All these evils can be absolved by regulation.
Simply, stop mining. Simply, stop farming. Or bring in the regulations, the paperwork, so onerous the mum and dad farmer is forced off the land.
Of course, then you invite big foreign-owned pension funds in.
We are losing the family farm to a countryside of corporations because they are the only ones who can cope with the excessive green tape.
But the corporation won’t protect the family of plovers nesting in the cane paddock in North Queensland like Green Shirt Movement founder Marty Bella does.
Dressed in green at the polling booth, Marty, who played for Queensland in State of Origin and Australia in Rugby League, is approached by a young woman in a tatty green slip.
“Why are you wearing green?” she asks, “What have you ever done for the environment?”
A crowd gathers to watch.
“How many kangaroos live in your street?” he asks her. “How many reptiles live in your garden?
“Because all of mine are full and fat — so who is the true environmentalist here?”
If you look around your home and don’t see a koala, then don’t judge. Nobody is forcing you to live somewhere denuded of all environment.
As we brace for another by-election at Groom and a state election in Queensland the weeping and wailing will begin.
The Green apostles will be preaching at the polling booth chanting the end is nigh.
If we stop farming and mining then our exports plummet, our dollar is smashed, and the opportunity for young families carving a life out for themselves is taken away.
And if we continue on this trajectory of debt to pay for this new perverse cult of government, the day will come where not only will we not have any money but we can’t borrow any more.