Dear Pauline,

You have been derided on social media and in the mainstream media as a fact-free redneck from Queensland on just about everything you espouse.

However, I ask that you could just take a little time and consider what I feel, as you ask of others to consider how you feel.

But before I do that, I took the time to read through some of your policies and to my surprise I agree with most of them.

Instead of giving voice to some of your positive policies all I hear on the tube and read in the MSM and social media is that Muslims are a threat, and as such we can’t walk down street without fear, and the country will succumb to Sharia Law.

This is what I feel: your ramblings on Muslims detract from the real threats to our society.

The main villain who is the threat to our society and way of life is big business. The players in big business are no better than common thieves who contrive their tax arrangements to ensure they pay no tax. Murdoch has got away avoiding $4.5 billion in taxes, then add the others who take advantage of the ‘Australian tax haven’ like QANTAS, Apple, Google, Amex, Facebook, plus many more, and every year the government is starved of tens of billions in tax. And how long has this been going on for? Many, many years.

If big business paid their fair share of taxes we would have a first class health care system, a first class education system (without $100k uni degrees), more money for public housing, more money for pensioners, more money to help the homeless, more money to help the unemployed, more money for important infrastructure, and so on and so on. And all this could probably be achieved without going into a budget deficit.

As for the radical Muslim threat you want us to tremble over, well I have faith in our police force and ASIO to keep our streets safe. And as for Sharia Law, the Muslim population is only 2% of our country and I really can’t see them over-throwing the government just to install Sharia Law. Let’s be real here, it will never happen!

So if you want your positive policies to come to fruition then it would be more productive for you to use your ‘parliamentary platform’ to go after big business to pay their taxes and that way you can deliver prosperity to your followers as well as to other Australians who have been affected by the major ‘tax avoidance’ of big business.

The reality, Pauline, is that big business must be enjoying your Muslim ramblings as it takes away the spotlight from where it should be shining. On them.

Dear Pauline – Let Me Explain