While a father waits and worries for the safety of his little girl travelling to Australia on one of Scott Morrison's 'ghost vessels', which he won't comment on, the government's representative in Hume gives us a "boy's own description" of his younger days in his column "Hume Happenings" as if nothing was wrong.

We know the government wants to make higher education less accessible, why not just tell all our young folk that they will have to take a life-long gap-year? Don't just hint at it.

The Anglican Parish in Gosford has left the rest of the Christian population of Australia in its wake with its hard hitting notice board messages to the government over asylum seeker policy and a slew of other moral issues. If ever there was a time for Christians to show evidence why they should be called by that name, the time is now.

I cannot remember a time when the religious credentials of a government have been so widely touted, yet the actions of the government have been so grossly out of step with the basic tenants of Christianity.

The situation the LNP finds itself in federally is based on lies and misinformation (or no information in Scott Morrison's case). The Murdoch press is talking-up jihadists and anything else it can get is grippy hands on to swing the dreadful poll-numbers back towards the Abbott camp and Clive Palmer is making a mockery of Abbott's negotiating skills. The "Carbon Tax" will be a millstone around Abbot's neck for a long time to come and the shame of the asylum  seeker actions a stain on the reputation of our great country for ever.

Philip Armour

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