Is nothing sacred at Christmas?

Supermarkets have used this time of year to raise the price of milk products 10 per cent

BOWSER PAIN: Price hikes hit the pocket over the holidays. Picture: Trevor Veale

IT'S BACK to work for the Queensland Labor Government, with smiles all around, backed by unionists, without whom they wouldn't have crossed the line.

For the past three years, they have been a disaster, with the deficit climbing to a historical $81billion, with no hope of receding.

Three million Australians are living below the poverty line. Children, with parents under financial stress, go without life's basics, while the fuel industry exploits every household dollar, making it impossible to break from the daily grind.

Supermarkets have used this time of year to raise the price of milk products 10 per cent without compensation to farmers or shoppers. Good timing.

We have been warned future household water bills are next to be hit, with rise after rise. Is there nothing sacred at Christmas?

Where do we go, while large corporations and successive governments reap with impunity what we have sown year after year? So much for equity and social justice rhetoric.

The cost of living horse has bolted.

E. ROWE

Marcoola

Originally published as Is nothing sacred at Christmas?