23 November

Somebody wrote a very smart pushback to the populist political surge in local government, in Bathurst. The Facebook invasion. The only thing I’d add to this is that General Managers implement the decisions of elected councillors. They have very little discretion to do anything, except implement what the elected councillors want. Bathurst is like every other local government area in the country. Growing demands on its services, zero new income. Why everybody is getting big rate rises. The incompetence and corruption that plays well with the social media crowd is just about always amongst those elected to run towns, not those who are paid full-time to administer their decisions.