A war with China over Taiwan would be a disaster of unimaginable proportions that would transform the Bundaberg region.
The Imperial Japanese Fleet got as far south as Bundaberg during the Second World War, and China is much more formidable than Imperial Japan ever was.
China now boasts the largest naval fleet in the world.
Its army is huge and its economy rivals or even surpasses that of the United States.
Young men and, yes, young women from Bundaberg would be conscripted into the Australian armed forces to fight and kill Chinese.
Bundaberg would face a calamity far greater than Covid-19 as our freedom of speech would be shut down in aid of the war effort, just as it was in both world wars.
We would also likely have to ration food and consumables.
Bundaberg would also be caught in a nuclear fallout if the Chinese struck the military centres of Brisbane or Townsville with their nuclear arsenal.
The threat to peace and ordinary life to the people of Bundaberg is incalculable.
This would truly be a war to end all wars.
Despite this our politicians, including local MP David Batt, support the nuclear submarine deal with the United States and continue to antagonise China.
Beijing is closer to Berlin than it is to Sydney, there’s no reason for Australia to get involved in Trump’s war.
