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Greetings,
I write to
inform you that I, Joe Bryant, have nominated in the Ward Five, Blacktown City
Council Elections due to be held on March 27 next.
It is some time
since I have made contact due to the cost of postage involved in a large mail
list that exceeds six thousand addresses across Australia.
This
letter is only going to a few people on the mail list that are within a
reasonable distance of Blacktown in an effort to enlist their support, in
whatever way they see fit with this campaign.
A lot is happening
that can be brought to the attention of the public from the position of local
councillor, and in fact it is possible to stop some of the plans that
are not in the best interests of the people or
Australia.
Blacktown City Council is the largest City
Council in Australia, outside of Brisbane, which is an amalgamation of 27
Councils and as such holds sway within the family of councils, a fact your
attention will be drawn to later in this communication, at least this
was the case when I last represented ward five on
Council.
One example of what can be done, and was
accomplished last time I was an elected member of council, involves the long range establishment plan to change the way
government operates in Australia, of which you may or may not be
aware:
This plan involves a first major
step of altering the system of local government from what we have, to a system
of regional government, which is to establish 44 regional government areas
across Australia, to replace the 646 local
councils. The plan includes, not electing officials to run these regional bodies,
but appointment of officials as administrators, by
Federal government. The 1988
referendum seeking recognition of local government in the Constitution was a key
part of this plan, transferring control over local government from state to
federal. It is now history that this move
failed, but the plan has not changed and a campaign
is again building to accomplish this part of the
plan.
I am totally in favour of constitutional
recognition of local government, but not in the form
proposed in the 1988 referendum. Local governments desperately need to be
secured in the Constitution, but secured in their own
right with their own Constitution and a guaranteed share of
state and federal revenue.
What was planned in the 1988
referendum brought me to spend six weeks campaigning from South Australia to
Queensland for a NO vote, a campaign that was particularly successful because I secured supportive coverage in all but two regional
newspapers, the majority of radio stations and all regional TV
stations. Securing this massive coverage was in no small way
owing to the efforts of the man who accompanied me during the six week campaign,
Ian Johnston, from Hornsby, and the Trojan horse, Effie.
A
second example involves an organisation called WESROC, which is one of the NSW
Regional Organisations of Councils (ROCs), organisations put in place to
spearhead the move from local government as we know it to the planned 44
regional government authorities. WESROC
consisted of nine local councils, Blue Mountains to Parramatta and Prospect
County Council, the electricity supplier, before the state government demolished
it. This ten-council-body was well recognised as the
leading ROC in NSW, setting examples for other ROC-organisations to
follow.
It was no accident that WESROC was the leader;
this resulted from the fact that all but one of the 9
councils had long term Labor controlled councils, facilitating
Labor’s agenda, of which regional government is a key
part.
I, like most Australians, was not aware of these plans until I
was elected to council and became one of the two Blacktown Council delegates
sitting on WESROC.
During my stint on WESROC I found
that the plans to build a WESROC Council Chamber in Blacktown were almost
complete. It was not long before I realised that the planned
WESROC Council Chamber would in fact be the establishment of a totally new seat
of government, something that had not dawned on any of the councils, that is
apart from the few driving the plan along, the main one of which was Mark Latham, one of the two
Liverpool Council delegates (And now leader of the opposition party -
The Labor Party - Editor)
To cut a long story
short, I managed to convince sufficient of the twenty WESROC council members of
what was really going on and managed to defeat the proposal to build the new
council chamber.
The above are just two of the major
victories I all but single-handedly brought to foil the establishment’s plans, -
actions, together with similar actions that led to the Commonwealth Bank’s
(then State Owned - The Editor) attack on my
businesses and me personally, when we were never in default of
any arrangements with the bank, an attack that was
instrumental in removing me from council, in addition to doing massive financial
damage to my businesses and family. This
reveals the nature and power of the establishment and their control over banks
and political parties, including the ALP.
How does the
establishment cover up its activities? With the excuse
that council amalgamations bring cost benefits, of which
there is no evidence. But even if true, this is not the
real agenda. Centralisation, as Aquinas said,
defeats democracy: the more remote a
representative, the less he represents.
We should
also be aware of the potential for some councils to play the part of the bad
guy, with the objective of discrediting councils in general, thus promoting
distrust and calls to do away with them. The same potential exists at
state government level, promoting calls to do away with state
governments.
State governments going from one crisis to another is
probably more to do with building resentment and support to do away with state
governments than it has to do with incompetency. The ongoing
Hospital fiasco, the policing fiasco, public transport, education and many
others are allowed to fester for a purpose, not by
accident.
When you consider all these things,
against the establishment’s long term plan, which is also
published Labor policy, to restructure government across Australia
to a series of 44 regional authorities (ROCs) appointed from Canberra, where a single House of the Federal Parliament (The States House,
(the Senate, abolished on the basis that there are no
states) will administer One World Government for the world
establishment (MoneyPower), the jigsaw may become a little
clearer.
Given Labor party policy, and the
state government’s recent sacking of South Sydney Council
and the City of Sydney Council, followed by the sacking of three North
Coast Councils, sackings that involved a fax to the mayor, without any prior
consultation, shows the intent and arrogance of the
Labor controlled State Government.
Not only did these
sackings come as a shock to those councils but also to the residents and rate
payers who were not consulted. We can see from this arrogance
that the state government believes it owns local
councils and that the people are of no
consequence.
There is no doubt that
this arrogance has been reinforced by the yes men and
women making up Labor controlled councils. Arrogance, maybe too soft a word, maybe dictatorial is the correct
word, in any case, if it is not addressed more councils and
their communities will feel the dictator’s breath as Labor moves to implement
its regional government policy.
Some people have
reservations about the usefulness and/or the quality of local councils.
These factors are controlled by you, the elector and
if your local government is on the nose then it is your
fault for not taking sufficient
interest.
When forming opinions about
government, whether it is local, state or federal it is important to understand
that removing any level will only result in removing the elected
official. All the other
officials-bureaucrats and departments of government will
remain. In effect this means that we would be removing our
only chance of influencing the bureaucratic machine.
My
experience on Local Council is that it is the elected person’s primary job to
act as a brake on otherwise runaway bureaucracy. It is true that
few if any elected officials realise what his or her primary responsibility
is. Again it is my experience that once
elected most people become part of the bureaucratic machine, instead of the
brake on it.