(Letter to the Editor - from Bruce Devereaux, Gympie Regional Council Division 4 Councillor).
I wanted to vote for a Gympie councillor I thought would do a good job, but I was not allowed to because he did not live in my division. To make things worse, voting is compulsory, so I had to vote for someone who was definitely not my first choice.
Compulsory Donkey Voting - that is what this divisional voting creates. It is unfair. I canât say it is undemocratic, you still get to vote, but the value of your vote is diminished.
The person I thought would be best as a councillor does live in the Gympie region - and I was voting for a Gympie councillor - so why canât I vote for him? I donât really care where my mayor or councillor lives - as long he or she is within a commutable distance to Gympie. I should be allowed to vote for who I think is best for the job.
It used to be the âLucky Countryâ - the land of the âfair goâ.
And yesterday our Prime Minister gave himself (and the rest of us in this wonderful âLiberal Democracyâ) a pat on the back for not shooting any of the thousands of women who marched peacefully against the shamefully pervasive culture of sexual and domestic violence towards women.
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Gympie Australia Day celebrations Barbara, Ayla, Madelyne, Cameron, Reece and Sabre Armstrong
Business 28th Jan 2021 1:05 PM
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Congratulations to the Gympie Regional Council on its staging ( with State Government support) of an excellent, family-oriented celebration of Australia Day at the Showgrounds on January 26.
As promised, it was a festive smorgasbord of food and music ; but there was much else to be enjoyed.
There was certainly a wide variety of culinary offerings ranging from the traditional Aussie fare of pies and fish and chips to exotic dishes from Spain, Brazil and Japan to name just a few of the more representative of the multicultural Australia of today.
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