From a team dynamics point of view, these people have to getvised to and become effective again every two years. An effective team can take a while to spin up,

I think this is an argument in favor of a 2 year half spill. At any given moment, a minimum of half the team has been there for a minimum of half the time.

Oh yeah, that interview earlier this year was a wild affair! Got in the car and listened to the replay of it morning after and i's just gobsmacked how off the charts she progressivley got!

@Gorgritch_umie_killa It's fascinating reading abc.net.au/news/2025-07-09/fioPure hearsay from people I know that know people that worked there, but yep, she was as completely unhinged as she appears to be.

Oh wow! I mean, i can't really comment because i don't understand the history in that situation. But a rogue, and unaccountable public service can't be a good thing.

@Gorgritch_umie_killa yeah, Nedlands, before they got dissolved, abolished, or whatever the word is, I believe.For me, the impression I continually get from my local council is that they may be good people with good intentions and set good policy, but the Operations side of the town just go about doing whatever they want anyway. It doesn't seem to matter who gets voted onto it, not a lot of visible change.

Eh, i'm a bit the opposite. Government is about representation of a people in a location, as the land changes the needs of the different sets of people change.

A popular view is that it seems silly to have a few councillors representing only a few hundred people. I don't, per se, agree with that. Placing an equal weighting on place as well as people seems important to me.

I think it seems silly to call a few councillors representing thousands, or even tens of thousands of people any sort of Local Government as can happen in metro areas. I think thats a fairly popular view, but just like 'people' i also think it seems silly for a few councillors to represent larger and larger tracts of variable lands. Somewhere between those pillars is where well sized LGA's live in my view.

I've forgotten the '3 degrees' bit, was that that nutty Nedlans Mayor? 😂

@Gorgritch_umie_killa the sooner huge chunks of them are amalgamated, the better.And obvs need some way to weed out people with "nearly 3 degrees"

A previous One Nation candidate got up in my area. To be fair, he had a crackin good corflute, and he made himself sound David Pocock-esque in his blurb. A well put together campaign in general i think, plus he's from the semi rural area of the ward, so i'm sure everyone around that part voted for him because they personally know him. Hopefully he's better and wiser than his previous choices in politics indicate. ^Past performance should not be used as an indicator of future performance.^

Unfathomly based.

Based.

NSN just can't stop taking L's after their March for Australia events.

Only just remembered in time myself. We had a surprising amount of corflutes about the place. One candidate even sent round a leaflet, full colour, glossy paper, well designed, impressive material for a local election.

WAEC could do more about the vote, maybe the switch proposed makes WAEC election promotion a more manageable prospect, one campaign every four years, instead of two.

It does feel pretty good down under at the moment. Feels like we're keeping our heads while a lot of the world are starting to lose theirs. If we use this tumutuous time to bed down and develop democratic practices in this country, i'll be happy as a clam.

So they should, well done them!

Stirling Arms in Guildford. They are being quite public about it.

I normally vote. This time, I forgot.

We get one letter in the mail, and that's it. The occasional candidate poster in the suburb.

Yes, it's on me for not putting it in my calendar. But at the same time - I feel like there needs to be more advertising or something to prompt us.

Between this and SA's new election funding rules, Australia's democracy can't stop winning right now.

TIL, since it's already mandatory for Victorians, as far as I'm aware.

Can you not even hint at the pub so we may frequent it and support them with our patronage?

And to the direct competition as well! :)

I'd noticed this community a few weeks back, its kinda a shame those users/mods/admins haven't jumped into c/rage, they'd be very welcome for my part. Seems a shame to split such a niche community like this, and i can't see the point of differwnce they're aiming for over there.

Anyway if you're ever looking for something to post, on c/rage, c/australianmusic or both take a look at the spoiler list in the side bar for c/rage. I've gone through abd found a fairly wide range of publishers. Its mainly street-press and the like.

Admittedly I didn't bother voting this round.

There was only one challenger to the current representative in my area.

They hardly said anything different in their blurbs anyway.

Don't get blinded by the lights.

Oh sick, love those guys. I hope you don't mind that I cross posted this.

Good.

This way extremists won't corner the vote.

I didn't realise it was only WA and SA that don't have compulsory voting for LG elections.