Letters to the Editor
Originally published by The Daily Telegraph.
29.08.2026
Freedom, future being destroyed by Labor
Gina Rinehart’s keynote address delivered at the National Bush Summit is about the clearest summary of where Australia stands at the moment and where it’s future lies that I’ve heard.
Ms Rinehart “pulls no punches” in identifying the crises surrounding us.
Record debt, record business failures, falling investment opportunities, falling standards of living, inflation, rising crime and an unsupportable immigration flood.
She sees the character of the Labor government and their coloured political mates as verging on socialism or communism.
Endangering our prosperity with regulation, taxing the productive to subsidise handouts to buy votes, and dangerously neglecting the defence of our nation.
Many media outlets, institutions, universities and schools are perpetuating cancel culture and “doom science”, inventing adversity to justify more funding and jobs.
Ms Rinehart suggests “we cannot simply afford to surrender our freedom and our future”.
No truer words spoken.
Peter Cattlin, Freshwater
Gina Rinehart’s speech at the Bush Summit (“The future freedom of Australia is on the line”, DT 28/8) was a masterful synopsis of what is wrong with this nation.
We are blessed with more bounty per head than arguably any other nation on Earth and yet we struggle it seems on everything from schooling to energy.
We struggle not because of natural disasters or by the intervention of other nations, we struggle because we are led by appallingly bad politicians who are obsessed with reckless
ideology and damaging policy settings.
In a nutshell we are a ship of fools easily bought off by the proverbial cakes and circuses confected by these fourth raters.
Hunter Ronald, Jerrabomberra
Treated with disdain
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told farmers at the News Corp National Bush Summit that he “gets it” when asked why his government is up-ending the lives of regional Australians with its renewable energy rollout.
I’ll tell the Prime Minister who really gets it: the farmers and regional communities who are being asked to carry the burden of his government’s green energy experiment.
They don’t see a “green transition” when they look across their farms. They see an industrial transformation of landscapes that have been farmed for generations – solar panels covering vast areas, wind turbines dominating skylines and transmission towers marching across productive agricultural land.
They see disruption to farming, concerns over property values, uncertainty about who carries the long-term liabilities, and a government seemingly determined to meet emissions targets regardless of the consequences imposed on the people who actually live there.
Regional Australians are not stupid, ignorant or opposed to progress. They understand perfectly well what is happening. They can see that governments are prioritising renewable projects and transmission infrastructure while treating the people who own and work the land as an inconvenient obstacle to be negotiated with. And that is the real disgrace.
Warren Cato, Manyana
Empowered by inert opposition parties still trying to find common ground or settling internal squabbles, PM Anthony Albanese apparently has a free pass to implement project decisions or delayed promises affecting the Bush Summit while still dumping more solar panels on prime grazing land (“Does the PM really ‘get it?”, Editorial, 28/8).
Could the Prime Minister also advise on how is that promise of $275 yearly electricity savings progressing?
We hope it is backdated.
Brian Whybrow, Wanniassa ACT
