The people of NSW are not completely happy with the treatment they get from the Baird government; it’s not what was hoped for after the betrayal of the Labor years.
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Placing privatisation and profits before people is a recipe for corruption, job losses and growing disadvantage amongst our communities.
I’ve been campaigning for a few weeks now and I know people are very concerned about the decline they see happening in their towns. Public services and thriving local businesses are vital to community prosperity, but both are ebbing away as the current Liberal-National government, following in the footsteps of an equally visionless Labor government, tries to keep spending down and to sell off what public assets they can.
This abdication of responsibility flies in the face of what democratic government is all about. A government’s highest priority is the people it serves.
The moral of the story leading up to this election is: don’t entrust the future of Yass, or the Goulburn electorate for that matter, to Liberal or Labor.
While the big parties are quite happy to pursue the dirty, damaging, dead-end coal and gas mining around the State, the Greens see investment in community based clean, renewable energy projects as bringing empowerment, new technology skills, jobs and income to a community.
The Greens have a long record in slowly but surely bringing the big parties around to clean up politics. Everyone would agree democracy is about delivering the government the people vote for, not some rabble influenced by vested interests or compromised through accepting brown paper bags full of cash. I think the bad smell caused by Campbell Newman’s courtship of big business prior to the Queensland election helped bring about his demise. Ordinary people find it distasteful.
The Greens would like to bring more decision making down to local governments and fund them to improve and maintain service levels, transparency and accountability. Another thing I am seeing as I visit places is the constant battle to get good consistent planning decisions that respect local sentiments and heritage.
The regional and rural areas are, as usual, missing out to a large extent because money is poured into that black hole of NSW city mega projects and private corporations. We want to change that, reversing regional funding cuts and privatisation that aggravate suffering, homelessness and unemployment.
As the election campaign gets going, it’s gets clearer to me that the Greens are the only party with the guts to put people first.
Our campaign launch is on this coming Saturday with Lee Rhiannon, Greens Senator for NSW, as our guest. If you are interested in coming along, please feel free to google and get in contact with me, Iain Fyfe, your Greens candidate for Goulburn.