AFTER I stopped applauding and laughing at Peter Langston’s letter re “Barnaby reviving cultural cringe” in The NDL on Saturday, May 16, I thought it timely to add some additional (but by no means exhaustive) comments by the same good old boy, that may have slipped under the radar.
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The Minister for Cow Pats was the one and the same who, some years back, advocated mining Antarctica before someone else did.
He is also the very one who (The NDL, May 4) wanted a debate here in Australia about the death sentence. Perhaps we could reinvent the wheel at the same time.
As well, he was associated with gravely unpleasant comments about the death of former prime minister Gough Whitlam, choosing this occasion to fan the fires of sainthood for Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
During the last federal election, when the Nationals were plastering the area with publicity for our local bloke, Barnaby, in his politically choreographed (and all the very, very similar) speeches, said that his contribution to global warming would be to clean up the Peel River bank with the Green Army, and to poison wild dogs.
Then there was a great headline that Barnaby “would go to war” if Tamworth looked like losing the BAE contract. It could be time to take up arms. Or were you just going to sling cow pats?
Recently I saw a tweet on social media from, one suspects, someone in Queensland, and I quote: “Sorry, New England – some of us tried to warn you. He is all yours now, we won’t accept any returns.”
They knew him, too.
D Wasson
Tamworth
