From: "Andrew McGlashan" <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>
Feel free to ask your local MP what that was worth.
There is no point, they couldn't give a rats ... not until they lose their seats will they even think twice about anything that counts, and even then, they'll just say we're idiots for voting them out.
Well, the next election is here in the State, and the Federal Budget, no money for Victorian railways, ca. $20 billion dollar cuts most felt in schools and hospitals set the scene. In this environment to lock in $16 billion on the East West Link is obscene. I wrote to Terry Mulder, see below. feel free to do similar things. http://www.terrymulder.com.au/contact Regards Peter Dear Terry, the last Federal budget is cutting support for education and health to Victoria by est. ca. 20 billion dollars. Please axe the East West Link. The Link was never the best next transport project for Melbourne, is poorly planned and is destroying park land that is there as long as the Colac Botanical Garden next to your home. It is a dude, the business plan so weak that you not even dare to publish it, and not even in sync with your own proposals before the last election. I also have a problem to understand why $50 billion for National Broadband is a waste while $16 billion for one local road is money well spent. Please start to work in the interest of Victorians, not in the interest of construction companies and financial institutions. My wife started economics in New Zealand. She gets utterly confused these days. She learnt that the GDP is only part of our well-being, looking after the young, the sick and the elderly is important too. I think that is in our interest too. Thank you Peter