Cardboard for the homeless

The enormous amount of money wasted by the Liberal Party in advertising in the recent federal elections was an utter disgrace.

This was money which could have been much better spent in other areas, for example through donations to charitable or not-for-profit organisations, which have felt the brunt of the almost forgotten GST.

On the Woy Woy Peninsula, there were numerous surplus yellow cardboard placards promoting the Liberal Party candidate, which were not even displayed on polling day.

Just as well as there was hardly any space left for workers representing various political parties to hand out how-to-vote material as it was.

New A-frames depicting a grinning little Johnnie Howard and the local Liberal candidate were everywhere.

Now that the Liberals, who are not renowned for their compassion, have been returned to the Government benches with an increased majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, we can expect an upsurge in the number of homeless persons in our society.

Perhaps people, who do not get a fair share of our Nation's wealth, could make good use of the surplus cardboard.

Bev Thompson, Woy Woy