Does Leanne Atkinson blandly assume that I, and all other voters, do not have the education and intelligence to understand the difference between leasing and selling of assets? 

As a small business owner herself, I would have assumed that she, herself, had the intelligence to understand that by leasing 49 per cent of the electricity poles and wires, as the present Government plans to do, we, the public would still retain ownership of 100 per cent and control of the remaining 51 per cent (or the majority) - but apparently she does not.

One would think - from the barrage of union sponsored TV ads and letters from Labor candidates - that they consider we are happy to be taken for mugs. 

Do they also blithely imagine that we have forgotten that it was the previous Labor government which privatised the retail section of the electricity industry and the consequent soaring prices for power?

Please Ms Atkinson, try to be honest in your advertising.

Elvie Preo

Bega