Minister for Illawarra 'surprised' re local democracy
Posted by reformwcc on August 15, 2009
As i heard him, in an interview on ABC 97.3FM radio on Friday 14 August, the Member for Keira and Minister for the Illawarra was “suprised’ to learn that local people regard the return of elected Councillors as very important for the Wollongong and Shellhabour Council area.
The former WCC Lord Mayor learnt this at a talkfest on the NSW State Plan at the Shellharbour Workers Club on Thursday 13 Aug. Things must have been clearly different in the early 1990s, when he was at the centre of local government here.
The NSW ALP has recently been described as a Shakespearean tragedy.
Not so – the lack of real commitment to local democracy by the NSW ALP is the tragedy for NSW people generally, and us in the Illawarra in particular.
The NSW ALP, by contrast, is more akin to a Monty Python farce – as we shall continue to see between here and the end of the year when the wheels will probably fall off the NSW ALP.
That may be a good time for Mr Campbell to retire, and allow space for a new 21st Century spirit of democracy to emerge in the Illawarra.
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