THE desperate pork-barrelling (which I call political blackmail) in which Barnaby Joyce is engaging is disgraceful and should be against the law.
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Politicians should have to stand on their record and not things promised immediately before an election.
In an article in The Sydney Morning Herald regarding the move of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to Armidale, the journalist Noel Towell, said that Barnaby Joyce had told the scientists of the APVMA that it’s Armidale or find new jobs.
He certainly has a kind and sensitive way of speaking to people. Apparently the majority have chosen the latter option.
Most of these scientists would have partners who have careers in Canberra, which may have taken years to establish.
Their children may be in schools that they enjoy, and obviously if they are in the important years 11 and 12 they would not want to move.
Public servants are not some sort of low order of human beings to be used as pawns by politicians.
S Taylor
Tamworth
