A man of conviction

I do so enjoy Barnaby Joyce who, even with his all to frequent foot-in-mouth disease, is still able to communicate truth like very few other politicians.

He is one of the few not scared to be a straight shooter! (All the mixed metaphors!!!)
His take on the incompetence of this current government and its satellite administrations is perspicacious. This small excerpt is a case in point.

There is nothing quite as frustrating as confronting the same problem over and over again without a plan that, if it cannot remove the concern, alleviates the problem. A brilliant metaphor for this ineptness at the expense of reality was delivered by the National Parks and Wildlife Service at a bushfire at Gwabegar, near Coonabarabran in NSW. A fire started in a national park from a lightning strike. The local bushfire brigades with the aid of a bulldozer put the fire out and the National Parks officers were nowhere in sight.

The next day, however, the National Parks officers turned up and rather than a thank you, complained bitterly about the damage of the track the bulldozer made, demanding that it “be regenerated to its native state”. Maybe if the locals had let the forest burn out, National Parks would have been happier. It was not rainforest it was part of tens of thousands of acres that would generally be known as the Pilliga Scrub. Did the National Parks officer have even the slightest idea how incongruous his attitude was to the disastrous problem that was imminent if the fire got out of control?
 

I look forward to his soon to be elevation into a position of political power. I only hope that his abilities are not curtailed by the bureaucrats that stay irrespective of the ruling elite.