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Albany's Local Govt Election is Over Run with Nutters (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/perth@aussie.zone
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I'm feeling a bit despairing filling out my ballot, because there seems to be so few candidates who have even a vague idea of what governance is supposed to be.

You can see the candidates here:

https://www.albany.wa.gov.au/council/council-business/candidate-profiles.aspx

I haven't studied them in detail, but of the 24 I would say less than a third have "reasonable" platforms (even if I disagree with them).

There's about 8 who are mask-off anti-trans anti-woke anti-dei MAGA dickheads, (and I suspect several more who haven't been as forthright about their views).

The remainder are just hapless idiots who very clearly don't understand governance.

Hopefully, the candidates aren't indicative of the opinions generally held by the populace.

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[โ€“] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nope, not any more.

We had an indie paper but it was pretty pathetic and the inevitable insolvency happened several years ago.

There is southerly magazine but its only published as a pdf.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bah, these bloody pdfs, i'm gona have to email one of these papers one day and ask what the deal is with these. I'd love to be able to refer to papers like Post but they're done the same way.

    I had a brief discussion with the Perth Voice editor when that site went down earlier this year, apparently they reached a maximum on memory they could store for that website? I don't really understand that explanation though. But if they're going offline like they have then maybe its too expensive for these papers to have their articles accessible in a more online friendly format. I don't know, as i say, i'm gona have to contact one of these people one of these days and understand the issue.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'll have a stab at an answer. I think there's a range of reasons.

    These magazines are produced by people will the skills, knowledge, resources, and contacts to produce a physical magazine. The southerly is produced by someone who was at the last indie paper to shut down here in Albany.

    It's a side hustle. Get some advertisers to pay you to put their ad in a magazine at cafes and wherever else.

    The online distribution just isn't relevant to these producers. They won't ever get any revenue from it. They're not interested in increasing their online readership. They don't know how to produce websites, because their skills and experience are in print.

    In some ways, making their content available in a shareable way, like a blog post, makes it ripe for posting to facebook, which will ultimately reduce their readership.

    Allowing you to see their production in a pdf viewer is a concession that allows you to show someone else some article you read at the cafe or whatever.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago

    In some ways, making their content available in a shareable way, like a blog post, makes it ripe for posting to facebook, which will ultimately reduce their readership

    This is an interesting thought, i can understand the logic, might not agree that its sound, but i can see the way they'd put together that line of thinking.

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