I NOTE the rather disturbing photograph published of the happy pair, Andrew Gee and Barnaby Joyce (Western Advocate, February 15).
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Of course, Mr Gee, the “humble backbencher”, is offering Mr Joyce his full and complete support.
That Barnaby Joyce has found himself with two families is in itself a minor matter. For Kings and Popes throughout history, this was commonplace.
It is the list of other embarrassments and incompetencies that are so much more damning of this person.
His failure to proceed against alleged water theft in the northern reaches of the Murray-Darling Basin stands out.
His loud and constant support for coal mining as a priority over the public interest and the natural environment says a lot about his judgement, as he boasts about “fighting the Greenies”.
A question: why does a man on a salary of $400,000 plus (not counting a raft of other financial “entitlements”) need an allocation of $50,000 from the National Party for his by-election campaign?
The concept of paying his own way appears completely foreign to him.
Meanwhile, Centrelink expects unemployed people, no matter how desperate their circumstances, to wait for weeks on end before being permitted to receive the dole.
But as Mark Antony declared in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (and Andrew Gee is obviously in full agreement), “Caesar is an honourable man”.