At today’s Council meeting it was revealed in public that at Town Hall there are “special protocols”that apply to all my correspondence to Councillors and Council more generally.
I have been aware of what a reasonable person would regard as discriminatory behaviour for some time and that it now revealed to be knowingly invoked by Council management and endorsed by Councillors is extraordinary.
What is also extraordinary is that the Director of Local Government appears to sanction all this and apparently against the backgrounding of SECTION 62/2 of the Local Government Act 1993.
Interestingly ex-Premier Gutwein reportedly was disinclined to read the Examiner and now Launceston Councillors have formally determined that a ratepayer cannot openly communicate with them.
It seems that sadly the sharing of information and the critical assessment of an issue is beyond ‘the pale’ .
It was Voltaire who told us that you do not need be a part of the majority to be right … or to have rights perhaps.
However, “I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
Ray Norman
Launceston
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