29th of June 2023
The apathy of citizens, in general, has always been a problem in every democracy.
There is nowhere that this is more evident than in politics in Victoria.
Governments of every political persuasion have a duty to act ethically, be accountable to the electorate and be competent.
The Community Advocacy Alliance Inc. (CAA) has no political affiliations. If the Government of the day is failing to meet the required standards, we will be highly critical regardless of the political party in power, be that Labor, Liberal, Greens or any other Party or Coalition.
This is a fundamental principle in our determination to try to give a voice to the largely unheard people of this State. Those of us who do care.
We certainly have been and will continue to be, highly critical of the current Labor Government led by Premier Daniel Andrews.
Our criticism is not about Labor’s politics but solely about their behaviour.
Examples of incompetence and misconduct abound.
At the top of the list is the 800+ deaths in the Quarantine debacle. The waste of about $1.2 million on the cancellation of the Eastlink Freeway extension. The “Red Shirts Rort”, which saw Labor pay back just under $400,000, the Lawyer X fiasco, “Slug Gate”, and Ministers rorting their travelling allowances, just to name a few.
Politicians ferrying pets or using a Govermremt vehicle for their private business; this type of behaviour is unacceptable.
Every major project undertaken by Labor has cost overruns of not millions but billions of dollars. Victoria’s debt is greater than three other Australian States. Does this seem like a competent Government? Your money, taxpayers.
The North-South Pipeline that cost billions is a classic act of budgetary vandalism and never has been and is not likely to be ever used. Not being prepared to accept the error of this project, we are paying for expensive maintenance – for what benefit? The Desal plant was built at the same time to drought-proof the State, so why a North-South Pipeline was ever a viable or necessary project is seriously questionable.
No Political party has the ticker or competence to accept reality and stop wasting money on maintenance and recycle what is recoverable from the project. If, at some future time, the Pipeline is required, the savings achieved will comfortably pay for the reestablishment. The most expensive part, the pipes, will remain serviceable.
It is strange that none of this seems to resonate with electors.
All of these matters cost taxpayers millions of dollars annually, and yet most of us do nothing.
Apathy reigns supreme.
The CAA implores every voter to get involved and demand the highest standards of behaviour from whichever political party is in power.
Unless this happens, anarchy will remain a grave danger to our democracy.
It does really concern and sadden me that tbe Victorian electorate just accept this arrogant inept government . This attitude has given Dan Andrews the confidence to arrogantly treat the electorate as fools.
We really need to wake up , but I really fear it is too late.
What can we do ? I sit back and watch those who voted for the current Government knowing full well just how corrupt they were, those voters are suffering just as much as those that did not vote the Government in, and yet they will vote them in again.
Nothing short of an insurrection will sort this long term problem out, but we are not brought up that way and will have to suffer the consequences of dyed in the wool labor voters for years, if not decades to come. Maybe in time the younger generations will see the folly of their parents and vote for a change.
The issue that I have with holding government accountable is knowing where to take my complaint/issue. How do people know where is the most appropriate place to submit these complaints and feel confident that it will be investigated and acted upon?
Unfortunately it appears that many politicians regardless of party, follow “headline politics” principles. In which case is this acting within the principles that their electorate expect of them?
A interview by our ex Deputy PM John Anderson the talk was around truth. Paraphrasing the discussion. ….. Truth has become a right wing concept. The new truth cannot be questioned with reason and facts, it is absolute and the right wing truth that suggests the use of reason and facts, must ridiculed, eliminated.
If there is no true truth, is there no principles? Is it only about power?
Daryl Cochrane CAA rural member.
Victorian voters are no better than those they have ignorantly elected to run their state.
And the MSM is even worse
Until the criminals in public office are properly called out by mass co-ordinated “public” action and physically brought to justice by mass demands in very public gatherings and operations, nothing is going to change. The mass psychosis woven by the spin doctors for criminal cover-ups can only be pulled down with shock tactics to ‘wake’ the sleeping and disconnected public as to what social rape they are being subjected to. The general public have been numbed and dumbed via stupification through politispeak. Time to turn up the volume on revision, to drown out the white noise these criminals generate for camouflage. We older generations have to set the example and force back the walls erected by those writing the rules to suit their own coverups and call deflection on any evidence of their wrong doings. When the criminals run the system, nothing is wrong that counters it. We have hit critical mass.