LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
IT is rank hypocrisy for Senator Bridget McKenzie (‘Senator wants cattle in national parks’, Gippsland Times 26/5) to accuse Labor of pandering to sectional interests purely to capture Green city votes when her party did exactly the same in the 2010 state election.
In their case, to capture country National votes by offering public assets for private gain in return for a few hundred votes.
She is also grossly off the mark on the heritage aspect with her kilt comparison.
Kilt wearers might offend some people’s sense of decorum or style, but at least they are not out there damaging national assets for private gain.
It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the heritage that she seeks to protect is the “heritage right” to agist cattle on public land at one twentieth the commercial rate.
One thing you can depend on rent-seekers to do is put all sorts of arguments as to why what they do is in everyone’s interest when, in reality, it is purely about their back pockets.
In her case, she is rent-seeking votes.
