Dear Editor,

With so many critical issues ignored or mismanaged over the past two terms of federal government, I fail to see how David Gillespie MP can afford to run a smear campaign against the opposition. What a legacy from this government at this point – no action on climate change or energy policy, no increases to wages and pensions to keep up with rising costs or to the miserable New Start Allowance, the Murray-Darling Basin debacle, the Manning Base Hospital situation, no implementation of needs-based education funding, and the desperate asylum seekers still stuck on Manaus and Nauru after all this time.

Sue Baker

Dunbogan