Voters Views
This week we asked our members what topics interested them enough to do something about them. Their priorities in order of popularity were as follows and some observations explain their choices :
1.Tackling Climate change is by far the most important challenge of our time.
2.Immigrants disadvantaging Australians in terms of jobs, housing, hospital beds, schooling & crime because the Federal Government has encouraged more far more migrants than our natural increase, but is unable or unwilling to provide the infrastructure and services that they need, particularly when they bring in aged relatives and produce more children. We all want migrants but we don’t want to ruin everything that made Australia appealing to them, in the process. Hasten slowly!
3.Aboriginal deaths in custody relate to the underlying causes of them being in gaol. Most of us can understand that if our homes and possessions were taken from us, our family killed, raped and enslaved by foreign invaders, life would be very difficult for us indeed. It would be tough for our children and grandchildren perhaps living in a tent in the local park dealing with invaders who did not speak English and regarded us as trash. We need to put the Aboriginal First Nation people on an equal footing with the rest of us, then give them some advantages to compensate for the disadvantages inflicted on them to date. If I had lost my home and lived in the local park it would be no consolation that some other invader may have treated me worse.
4.Corruption – the revelation of politicians using taxpayers’ money to gain financial advantages for themselves in terms of election and parliamentary salaries has opened a can of worms that requires attention even more than a Federal ICAC. It needs oversight by voters because an ICAC can easily be starved of funds to limit its effectiveness, as it may well be that ASIC was starved of funds not that long ago to protect dishonest directors sitting on public company boards. Poliwatch has been established to help facilitate that oversight or monitoring.
5.Upskilling Australians instead of employing foreign workers, in order to move more Australians from welfare into productive enjoyable work and lift their standard of living.
6.More even pay rates across corporations instead of the lowest paid receiving peanuts and the highest receiving millions of dollars a year. a ratio of between 10:1 and 20:1 to be the maximum gap between the highest and lowest paid in any organisation.
7.Harassment and abuse of women, reduction of which is well underway and on which FairGO has helped voters including groups like WEL to campaign for over a decade of improvements, particularly more recently in respect of domestic, family and sexual violence.
8.Corona virus management has not pleased everyone, particularly those with reasonable objections to vaccinations. It is hoped that we come up with solutions to keep us all well whilst satisfying everyone as to their safety.