Toowoomba North Campaign Email: 4 July 2011
BEWARE GREENS ON MINING, PYKE SAYS
Toowoomba North candidate for The Queensland Party, former-MP Peter Pyke, today responded to comments published today in The Chronicle attributed to Lock the Gate Alliance spokesperson, Drew Hutton, who said ‘his organisation was currently having discussions with the Greens, the Queensland Party and Katter’s Australian Party about adopting policies to protect good agricultural land, closely settled areas, underground water systems and sensitive environmental areas’.
Peter Pyke says Hutton’s involvement in the Lock The Gate Alliance is not transparent since he is a founding member of the Queensland Greens.
“Hutton’s wife, Libby Connors, who teaches at the Toowoomba Campus of the University of Southern Queensland is a perennial candidate for the Greens who will stand in the next State Election, likely to be held later this year,” Pyke says. “My tip is that Connors will stand in Toowoomba North for the Greens and her preferences will determine who will win that seat.”
Pyke says he has history with Hutton, Connors and the Greens and says that it has been his observation that in the past, in Queensland the Greens have been nothing more than an ALP front.
Pyke also says Hutton is being untruthful when he says he is in discussion with The Queensland Party. “That’s just not true. What is true is that Queensland Party leader Aidan McLindon, a sitting MP who can make a difference has moved Heaven and Earth to get to local events staged by the Lock The Gate Alliance only to be shut out by Hutton. Now there’s a clue to what might really be happening here.”
Pyke says Hutton and the lock The Gate Alliance might be talking the talk, but are they walking the walk?
“At the end of the day, out of the three parliamentary parties in Queensland, only The Queensland Party has promised a moratorium on all new mining and gas wells, only The Queensland Party have promised a complete ban on all fracking, only The Queensland Party have promised a modern new Mining Act to address all of these critical matters and only The Queensland Party can deliver these urgent reforms. If the Bligh Government is returned, their attitude to mining in regional areas is set in stone. The LNP are no different,” Pyke says.
Pyke says he is troubled that Queenslanders who are putting their trust in the Lock The Gate Alliance might be being taken advantage of by a clever ALP-Green scheme to siphon their votes back to the ALP in marginal seats, particularly Toowoomba North.
“To be fair to Hutton and Connors, though. let them answer the following questions: Is Hutton still a member of the Queensland Greens? If so, what influence does he still wield? – he used to run the Party as if it was his own personal fiefdom. Will Libby Connors stand for the very marginal ALP-held Toowoomba North seat? If so, has Libby Connors promised her preferences to the ALP? If so, what is the deal between the Greens and the ALP?”
Pyke says if the Lock The Gate Alliance is fair dinkum, it will ask voters to support The Queensland Party’s candidates above all others, including the Greens, whose preferences traditionally favour the ALP.
“The Greens are an alarming political force whose policies will destroy rural and regional Australia and are simply not to be trusted at any level,” says Pyke.
CONTACT: PETER PYKE 0427 388 598 www.twitter.com/PeterPyke peterpyke@optusnet.com.au
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