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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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

24! I have a choice of 4. I too am a little * cough * disillusioned with the candidates. They either think too big or too small and dont seem to understand the capabilities of a local government. Thankfully most understand that Australia's strength is our diverse peoples. Ok i do live in a very 'woke' area. I am proud of you for wanting to get involved in the local governmemt elections and i wish more people did.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, like you said in the other post, we need to start thinking about ways of engaging the general populace in local elections more effectively. Whether ots compulsory voting, or something else. Probably multiple things will be needed being realistic.

    U/joshi@aussie.zone and i had an interesting chat along these lines on their Post about some council issues a few weeks back.

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