Election thank you
I would like to thank the voters of the Electorate of Tamworth who put their number one in the box adjacent my name, more 8,000 and also to the many kind and willing volunteers who supported me at Early Voting centres at Gunnedah and Tamworth and at polling booths on Election Day.
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I would also like to congratulate the winning Member for Tamworth, Kevin Anderson who has also been appointed to the NSW Ministry as Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation albeit an unusual title but quirk of many of this Government's ministerial and departmental names.
I am looking forward to seeing the many election commitments made by the Government in this electorate come to fruition over the next few years.
Finally and certainly not least I would like to thank my other opponents and election colleagues specifically Jeff Bacon, Steve Mears and Robin Gunning and their volunteers who were always friendly and polite throughout the campaign as well as the local media. Best of luck to you all into the future.
Again thank you to my fellow electors who placed their trust in me at the NSW Election on Saturday 23/03/19.
Mark Rodda, Tamworth
Our natural resources
Australia is a Commonwealth, one nation, not a group of sovereign states like the EEC, which are bound together only by paper agreements on those interests which are common to all.
Australian resources are national, not state resources. The Commonwealth, for instance, demands that rivers are national resources to be managed in the interests of all Australians and not only for the states through which they run. Similarly, the underground waters of the Great Artesian Basin belong to all and must be conserved, recharged and used as determined by the Commonwealth not the states under which it lies. So with other natural resources - coal, natural gas, oil, minerals, forests, the sea around our island continent - all belongs to all. By agreement the states can manage resources according to Commonwealth rules but such rules should be made and enforced by the Commonwealth.
The untamed wilderness of south west Tasmania, the stark beauty of the Flinders Ranges, the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, the pre-history enshrined in the Kakadu National Park, the snows of the Australian Alps and similar intangible resources belong to the nation. The boundaries between the states were not drawn by nature but y man. We have managed to agree that the ultimate in matters of laws rests with the High Court.
Whether or not we want it, our government belongs to us. We have many responsibilities to perform in order to see that our country runs smoothly. We, the people, are required to watch over our elected officials and be sure they are doing the job we elected them to do. Why? Because that's the kind of nation our grandparents left us. We have inherited a free nation. It is our job to see it remains free. Think like a free man, not a slave.
Carmel Madirazza, Tamworth
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