DEAR News Of The Area,

I KNOW it is politics, but even so, two recent announcements by Peter Dutton and the LNP exhibit a fundamental lack of logic and poor decision making.

On this occasion I am not discussing the detail per se but rather the logic and decision making aspects of the announcements.

Firstly the costing announcement for the nuclear power proposal.

Surely if you are making an argument, and you believe that one system is more cost effective than another, then you base your argument on the same parameters and compare apples with apples and not apples with oranges. For the exercise of comparing the renewables pathway with the nuclear option this should have been a given as the parameters projected over a 20 year period have questionable accuracy anyway, so to claim a cost advantage after changing the base parameters is both illogical and deceptive.

The second announcement relates to the logic behind not intending to display the Indigenous flag.

This raises the question as to why it is acceptable to stand in front of a flag which includes the flag of another nation that relates to our history i.e. the Union Jack as part of our Australian flag, but then deeming it unacceptable to acknowledge and accept a flag which represents a much longer period of our history.

If the backstory to this initiative was that there was an agenda to work toward a flag that represented the immense diversity of Australians and was accepted universally by the population then that could be offered as a reason but I doubt that is the case.

Unfortunately both announcements appear to be an ongoing campaign to promote division and uncertainty.

Regards,
Trevor HARRAGON,
Boambee East.