So little regard for local government ?

December 10, 2025

A thought provoking article. Sadly local government was like a tacked on afterthought. If you look around your local area through local eyes without the bias promoted by self interests in state governments you can’t help but see what a good job local governments do with limited resources – in general the parks and gardens etc are a credit to your local council. Parks, playgrounds etc are an indicator as to what a good job they do for local interest. Take the time to regularly visit your local park to see who is doing the maintenance and restoring the area just in time for the next state government environment destroying self promoting political photo opportunity festival.

It is obvious that state governments are the superfluous level of government – responsibility should rest locally. Imagine how long you would wait if your rubbish bin was not collected and you had to ring Canberra?

Furthermore in this time of phones and Zoom meetings etc consider how much cheeper more efficient the system would be if your local federal member stayed at home and and represented locally, perhaps with an office at the council chambers.

FATCHANCE