A safe seat is no excuse for silence

By: darrenlh (Registered ) on 24-10-2007 20:27

Thanks for your kind comment. Martin Ferguson holds the safest federal ALP seat in Australia, and may feel unobliged to respond because of his margin. 
 
However, I am hoping he will be prompted by coverage on this site, and the inclusion in this week's edition of The Melbourne Times (a local, large circulation weekly) of my letter on this issue. 
 
I wrote the letter in response to Ferguson's earlier comments in the paper highlighting the low attendance at a recent Darebin forum on climate change. I find it difficult to believe that anyone would equate small numbers with low public concern about this issue. I wish Ferguson would forget such petty diversions and answer the questions that so obviously challenge him. 
 
Needless to say, the Coalition's policy is even worse on climate change, and they not only support uranium mining but are arguing for nuclear power in Australia. Unfortunately for Ferguson, to say that an opponent's policy is worse is no defence. His answers need to go beyond that to the fundamental problems of uranium mining and the export of nuclear risk overseas.

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