I agree with the viewpoints expressed so decisively by David Spong of Tamworth in Saturday, October 18’s NDL. I have similar thoughts about what is going to happen to Tamworth, and for that matter, what is happening to Australia for the almighty dollar. Our minerals are a finite source of income, which will sometime in the future be exhausted.
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It is only our trading with overseas countries that keep us afloat as our manufacturing base has gone overseas. We supply the raw product and then buy it back all nicely processed and packaged. Even our Australian flag is made in China. Is nothing sacred? What are we leaving for future generations?
My father and brother went to war in WWII to help save Australia from Japan invading Australia. Isn’t it a paradox that we are now proposing to get our new submarines made in Japan. It was said after their surrender: “You may have beaten us militarily, but we will in time do you economically”. And isn’t that the truth.
Today a Chinese consortium name of Everich – an apt name if ever I heard one (rich at our expense) – is to buy or buying land in Tamworth’s CBD, and possibly surrounding areas of Tamworth. I ask why? Or is it to expand their mining interests in the years ahead.
It would seem Australians cannot buy land in Japan or China, but we are prepared to sell our land to China. At best we should only lease the land but still retain ownership. If they don’t like it, they don’t proceed.
It does make you ponder about those who gave their lives to save Australia. What would they be thinking today. “We fought to save this country with bayonets and lead, and today we are selling it to China instead; and to think we gave our lives to save this land”. What a sad state of affairs is this world today.
Wayne Bearup
Manilla
