Don't worry, Our polys know best and need to do these things .

This protest at Lakeside Bowls Club turned very nasty last Friday with serious personal threats and actual physical contact from protesters. The group felt strongly enough to come from across the State to tell our local member that he's backing the wrong horse; .... but why did it get out of control?

While there is clearly no excuse for such behaviour, Labor would do well to examine why so many people in the country are either depressed or very angry BOTH about the things they do , and the way they do them - the "get your back up Kings" ?.

It is not sufficient to say all the protesters are bad or mad. Many will dismiss all protest as NIMBY driven (often can be) - but that's part of the reason for anger and depression- the re only victims and no reasoning ; without a credible planning process the government is not credible and the council are a rubber stamp ; The leader throws a party and only those who want to clap him and are paid to clap are invited. Where is the governments wind policy? where is the government water recycling policy ? - up in the air somewhere !.
If the governement insists on imposing their best intentions in your backyard on some of these issues, you too would be mad. Since when was it sound for Sir Humphrey to celebrate "Yes minister" in Public ? . Great win for Darren if he can get away with it ?
Is there a planned policy of where these things " have to go ", or does the industry and its incenetives set the pace, and the place? - it seems that way ( and that in itself is bad) Is labor now just like the libs, leaving things to the market and leaving our local governemnet planners to just sit there and say Yes? - sort of ?According to the reports, everyone was nodding nicely inside the building ?

A lot more people would have come to protest , I think ,but they either have no horsefeed of their own to offer ( not paid to sit there) or they feel that Don Quixote Cheeseman will just keep riding on, like the plantation industry did , (incentives that created an artificial bubble )till the bubble bursts. Then the Party's all over till there is more money in the kitty!


What we all know is that the pocket liners love their hobby horses, and they are happy to back them at ours, and the investors expense . City people solving environment problems ! Don't dare use your own money , when they don't!
This is only the tip of a huge iceberg of slow moving taxation drift that will eventually sink yet another ship (that should have a life beyond quickfiz politics ); and their own?

Labor's totally inconsistent picture of engagement with planning and industry makes a lot of us think that planning in the long term public interest is , on their part ,just plain hypocrisy . If it "looks good , do it" seems to be their version of "it feels good,it must be right" ?Sorry, mature governments live beyond such short term gain wins.

Maybe I'm wrong about some aspects , and the meeting moved the planning agenda on - Well if that actually happened ,and it wasn't just hard sell from the saddle , why didn't someone say so?

More meddling by those in charge ?

Whichever place the council are committed too ( the Beechy precinct ) (or the Bureaucratic precinct ) its very questionable whether the councillors are in charge of either .
They got given some money, so they went there . It's one thing to be poor, quite another to allow yourselves to be patronised .

All councilors are on Notice : Why is the building at the back of COPAC not available for ARTS as it was intended and funded?
If the future of the existing arts precinct is to be a home for all things Council ( instead of the Arts as i think most people would prefer) then the PUBLIC are entitled to know - right now !

Otherwise planning is a joke and any more calls for more room for them will also be treated as a sad joke .