Hello Barnaby,

Thank you so much for your committed concern for our country and the issues our Australia is presently confronted with. This Gillard government appears more occupied with the NBN. How and why a PM can continue down that wasteful road is beyond comprehension when Queensland will need every resources known since I can recall.

Talk is rife with people commenting if Indonesia or similar countries we often give very generous aid, will help us...I very much doubt that. Oh no, we have Rudd, Gillard and others spending money like confetti and they have the hide to us tax payers to dig deep. We already do ! But when prices of everything goes us, how much more can they bleed the general tax payer?

Angry, you bet. I have never been more disgusted by a government than I presently am. There are many more like minded and we all talk to each other. Somewhere, ther will be a groundswell of support Barnaby that you would not have imagined.

Please keep up the good work you are doing.

Kind regards,
Glenda Harington

And still the rains are falling, with mass evacuations occurring throughout southern parts of Queensland.

This is what happens when The Greens candidate, Larissa Waters, gets elected to the Senate. She is drowning our state 6 months before she even takes up her seat in the parliament. Heaven only knows what she will inflict on us after that.

Let us hope that the continuing monsoonal conditions will at least water down the power base of those pushing an evil communist agenda.

Dear Mr. Joyce,

I have been horrified at the disasters occurring in Queensland as a result of the floods. I am giving a big box of bed linen to the Red Cross today and hope it will be of assistance to some of our dear people in need up in QLD.

Mr. Joyce I would like to air a big personal concern and that is in regard to our Government's attitude to food production in Australia. We realise that virtually all crops have now been destroyed in Qld. which is a disaster for not only Queenslanders but for all Australians who depend on their crops. To add to this we have a situation in the River Murray region of South Australia which is a very large producer of food crops, where growers have to pay millions of dollars each month for an allocation of water which is not sufficient for them to grow their crops. Right now, which is at a time in Australia when the necessity to protect the growing of food products must be at its highest level, the Federal Government is denying the SA food growers access to extra flood water to ensure the production of their food products. They have to sit there and watch the water that they desperately need flowing down the river and out to sea. This is criminal and totally irresponsible. The Government needs to declare the present situation in Queensland as a national disaster and then take whatever action is needed to protect the protection of food growing around the country. Food prices here and around the world are sky rocketing and we have a Government who do not understand the serious situation our country is in. Gillard will probably need at least six months to have it sink in and then another six months to devise a plan to make sure it is the correct action to take. The Gillard Government has no idea how to handle an emergency and it is scary. Australia just cannot afford to have a Labor Government in power.

I appreciate your good work Mr. Joyce and hope you will fight to have the Government take responsible action.

Yours sincerely,
Ann Wright.

How wise people are after the event. We have witnessed many years of drought throughout much of Australia when new reservoirs and dams should have been built and current ones made larger but nothing was done, and comments are now being made of what needs to be done, a bit of shutting the door after the horse has bolted don't you think.

I have just been in Western Australia and I question where the water is going to come from to fulfill the obvious needs of the massive housing boom in that state. Do they have to wait for floods also.

HI Senator Barnaby Joyce,

Hope you make the most of helping people during the floods. Great to read of your interest in engineer Bradfields irrigation plans. in Victoria we havent had a new dam for atleast twenty years.

HI Senator Barnaby Joyce,

Respectfully suggest this can be your time to shine.
If you are all over this flood issue it will resonate with rural an regional people all over Australia.
Here in Victoria the Nationals have had a modest resurge. This can be your issue , especially as your St George is one of the towns threatened. Hope you can be everywhere on the TV and Radio.

Now the monsoonal conditions are cutting roads in and around Brisbane for at least the second time in recent weeks.

When I returned from visiting relatives in Canberra on 28 December, I was unsure whether or not I would be able to get home from the airport, due to road conditions.

When we have a private company running rail services such as Airtrain, they make most of the money from public transport during periods of torrential rain, leaving cabbies without much income.

How do I know this? Even though there were thousands of people returning by air to Brisbane, the cab driver told me he had been waiting for 3 hours for a job.

Lots of people hopped onto the Airtrain, because they probably hadn't bothered to check whether or not Brisbane and surrounding roads had been cut. I got my son to check it out before I left Canberra.

Maybe quite a lot of people also got a relative or friend to pick them up from the airport, because the economic conditions of most families have continued to slide down a very slippery slope under the Labor government.

On the positive side, at least I had the chance to educate the cab driver, a young man who came here from a country with high social values, regarding the true legislative agendas of Labor and The Greens e.g. homosexuality, abortion and euthanasia.

He was completely horrified to learn that they are NOT the saviours of our planet. No doubt he will now spread the message throughout the ethnic and cabbie communities, along with passengers.

And now we haveall heard in the news that Anna Bligh's plane has been struck by lightning, a sure and certain message to all of us that the wrath of God will descend upon all recidivist communists, including Marxists such as herself.

Mr. Joyce I would like to air a big personal concern and that is in regard to our Government's attitude to food production in Australia. We realise that virtually all crops have now been destroyed in Qld. which is a disaster for not only Queenslanders but for all Australians who depend on their crops. To add to this we have a situation in the River Murray region of South Australia which is a very large producer of food crops, where growers have to pay millions of dollars each month for an allocation of water which is not sufficient for them to grow their crops. Right now, which is at a time in Australia when the necessity to protect the growing of food products must be at its highest level, the Federal Government is denying the SA food growers access to extra flood water to ensure the production of their food products. They have to sit there and watch the water that they desperately need flowing down the river and out to sea. This is criminal and totally irresponsible. The Government needs to declare the present situation in Queensland as a national disaster and then take whatever action is needed to protect the protection of food growing around the country. Food prices here and around the world are sky rocketing and we have a Government who do not understand the serious situation our country is in. Gillard will probably need at least six months to have it sink in and then another six months to devise a plan to make sure it is the correct action to take. The Gillard Government has no idea how to handle an emergency and it is scary. Australia just cannot afford to have a Labor Government in power.