Your lead story last week headed, Council responds to the "bullies", seemed to promise that serious directions were to be taken by our Council on certain important social matters.  

Good on you, Council, I thought, for having rightly taken up cudgels against one of the most unpleasant practices that blights the daily life of many in our community - in schools, in the work place, in places of business and on the roads   but, when I read the article, I was astounded to find that it was the Council itself claiming that it was it being bullied, with the bullying allegedly focussing on the Mayor and the General Manager, who together provided most of the material contained in the story.

On closer examination, however, I realised that this was a story that wasn't really meant be taken seriously and that the writer of the report was giving us a clue to help us judge its credibility  by very cleverly describing the situation as "council bulling", thus warning your readers that the whole thing was actually a great big joke. A Freudian slip, no less!

So, with this in mind, I read the article again and it certainly fulfilled the prophecy of the reporter's earlier words of "council bulling", meaning that what the article contained were the rather paltry complaints of some rather insecure individuals, who really need to take a reality check on their roles and get on with the important task for which they've been appointed/elected in providing sound administration in the service of our Yass community.

Obviously, there continues to be much that Council has to do to re-establish broad community confidence in it again and the best way for it to do this is to leave the egos behind and, as the Mayor rightly says at the conclusion of the article, to get "on with the job of serving the Yass community"  - and, without the bulling!

Clarification: Brian Millett's comments about the reporter’s intent are unfounded.