How impertinent!

Certainly, we have noticed a lot of projects funded just over the past few months - a disability playground here, a Catholic school there, here a bridge, there a bridge, everywhere a, well, you know how it goes.

But surely, not pork-barrelling!

Perhaps we just haven’t been keeping up with the government’s largesse over a longer time?

Fortunately, I stand ready to help Andrew Constance refute your harsh critique.

Even if I say so myself, I’m really quite good with graphs.

If Andrew can just provide me with a list of projects funded since the Liberal’s election, and the dates they were funded, I’ll put it all into a clearly understandable graph that will blow the editor’s wild assertions quite clear of the water.

Andrew and I will be able to show that project funding has been generous and uniform since the start of his tenure, and hasn’t just kicked in during the run-up to the election, as she so mischievously infers.

Andrew is a bashful man, and he won’t have wanted to create a fuss.

You’ll find most of the funding to our shire has slipped in, unannounced, when no-one expected it.

Vacuum-packed bacon, if you will.

And of course, Andrew will have no problem finding those figures, because he’s state Treasurer.

Better than that, he’ll be able to give us all the figures for the whole period for all the electorates, and we’ll be able to put to bed that other malicious inference, that marginal seats get a better grade of pork in better quality barrels than safe seats do.

Terry McGee

Malua Bay