Wednesday, 13 August 2025 10:55

Wrong focus

Written by The Hound

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OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is now showing how underemployed she is as a minister by initiating an investigation into whether young children should be banned from collecting eggs on farms and feeding animals.

She fears it could be ‘working’, which is against the law.

This must rank as one of the most stupid, incomprehensible utterances of a Minister of the Crown in decades.

Kids love collecting eggs, feeding their pet lambs and rearing calves for school calf days.

This gets them away from screens, they see real life and have fun.

This mutt can hardly imagine what her parliamentary colleagues who have a rural background think.

Surely the focus should be on less trivial things like getting the economy right, hospital waiting lists down and finding more rural doctors!

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