Why do the rich and powerful control government??

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Because controlling government makes them rich and powerful!

You can do that, to a greater or lesser extent, no matter how rich or poor you are now. Voters Network helps you with first steps.

Our governments in Australia are run by politicians who represent you in parliament. Contrary to popular belief, many of those politicians will be keen to help you, if you ask enough of them in the right way.

I started the Votergram service in 1986 to give every Australian an effective voice to government. It does that very well. What surprised me was how willing so many MPs were to help the community members and bodies who asked them for assistance via Votergrams. Of course Votergrams were never just a messaging service. They were a finely tuned political persuasion package.

Power blossomed and barriers fell
After that I formed FairGO to help people run political persuasion campaigns. It was so easy to protect the Australian chicken, apple and pear industries once we found valid reasons. I enjoyed the chicken growers’ conferences and visiting the sheds, but the apple and pear campaigns were all done by phone. It was the small number of Votergrams it took for a health group to have smoking on commercial planes banned that lifted my sights. Then we won the campaign to keep the snowfields available for community lodges and I began to see how much power ordinary people could have by influencing their politicians. It took just one Votergram to win victim’s impact statements in court cases, just one to have pharmacies dispending generic medicines and just one to give safe drivers a 50% discount on their licence renewals. We don’t make a profit but as a former FCA I believe that we run a very successful business in FairGO.

Personal needs were as easy to solve as community ones
It did not matter whether it was getting people with mental illnesses treated, a young man with cerebral palsy government funded care in another state or school facilities for children. The politicians waved magic wands for us. Many are champions of the first order and that is why their names appear in the Politicians Honour Roll The highly successful road safety campaign was the clincher. I knew then that with the right research, strategies, tactics and engagement, any Australian could exert amazing power for good.

In the last two weeks I have seen two long drawn out problems salved almost overnight by a single Votergram. From the 1970s where Government treated me like dirt, I had moved to an unimaginable position of power. But I have never wanted power. I just enjoy giving it to other people. The parents of runaway children enticed away by big fortnightly payments, were overjoyed at the Senate inquiry we secured and the changes in how Docs and police changed tack to build families up rather than tearing them apart.

Voters Network provides an essential ingredient for making improvements to your country or state. It enables discussion groups to cover topics on which voters want action. Then it can use FairGO to make it happen. It provides an objective record to voters to check, at election time, how well they have been represented by their local MPs and the parties of those MPs, as a voting guide.  They can, through the rating system provide valuable feedback to politicians. It is by engaging fully with all politicians that voters develop such amazing power to improve their own lot or society in general.

You can generally achieve what you want if you are prepared to do what it takes.

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