Protest or persuasion
It is hard to understand why groups would choose to protest https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/minns-might-have-lost-in-court-but-he-knew-failed-protest-laws-were-a-winner-20260416-p5zoil.html instead of persuading their elected politicians to do what they want. Protest is unnecessary in Australia. Since the introduction of Votergrams 40 years ago and our Voters Network over 25 years ago, MPs in every parliament have shown themselves happy to help. They have been more than willing to consider and act upon good sensible, fair and just constructive suggestions from voters. Why wouldn’t they? Voters absolutely control the careers of politicians!
She’ll be right, Mate
The laid back attitude of Aussies is well justified. Take it quietly. Let the politicians know what you want done. Give a bit of a flick of the whip by going into a marginal electorate if they ignore you. Nothing radical. Just chat to the local voters. That will get the MPs thinking. After all, they work for us. It is not the other way around. Protest is about confrontation. Skip that! It makes politicians look stupid, negligent and incompetent. That is not the way to convince anyone to do anything. One can only imagine that protest is an ego trip for the protesters. We Aussie just gently push them in the right direction and off they go.
Fix Australia first
That the protesters took on our elected government and beat it, sets them apart a bit. Don’t know if that’s what they wanted. Does that mean we are going to have a whole lot more protests on the streets of our capital cities about people who are upset at foreign governments. What we need is a bit of this “social cohesion” we hear about. Let’s tackle the problems of the least well-off, least advantaged and most neglected segments of our Australian society. It might be good if those protesters considered the well-being of Australians. That can far more realistically be fixed by Australian governments than what the Israeli or American governments do overseas.
Ask and receive
There is an old saying, “Ask and you will receive”. For 40 years now Australians have used Votergrams and conferred in Voters Network to have their elected parliaments do or stop doing things. In about 90% of cases the government has done what was asked. Domestic Family and Sexual violence, Road safety and pregnancy warnings on alcohol containers all testify to that.
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When you want to influence Australian society, do it the Aussie way. The swagman may have taken his own life as the best way out then. Today we can dump the government in the billabong if we don’t like what it is doing! But we usually don’t have to. Elected governments always want to be re-elected and that is up to the voters.
