Non-Fiction (Political Parties, Practical Politics, Government)
A book in the collection: Ku-ring-gai Council, 2021 to 2024
A book in the series: Mayoralty
The West has lost faith in our elected governments for good reasons. Those reasons include elected officials like the proudly longest-sitting mayor in the history of Ku-ring-gai.
This is her story, told by councillors, residents, and others experiencing her and by her own words. She is not unique.
Political parties do not make people good or bad. They are means of good people doing good deeds and of bad people taking advantage.
Bendigo Bank is the same. She chairs the Community Bank Lindfield.
Classic liberalism depends upon nationalism or other tribalism because morality depends upon it. Without it, there is only individualism, whereby personal liberty and reward give way to greed and other immorality.
Elected officials used to be better because we used to be better. For our governments to serve us, we need to revive our sense of being more than individuals with our meagre self-interests. We are peoples too.
Fellow members of our political parties ought to be our friends. So should elected and unelected officials with whom we serve. Our elected and unelected officials ought to feel like our friends, however much we disagree. That is especially the case in local government.
Contents
Preface
Chapters:
- Political Individualism
- A Supreme Manipulator
- Buying the Mayoralty
- A Political Protection Racket
- Supporting Jennifer
- Vanity
- Palm Beach
- No Friends in Local Government
- Emeritus Mayor
- Not Letting Go
- Smearing the Council
- Changing Everything
- Nastiness
- Secrets and Deceit
- Political Cannibalism
- Lying to Voters’ Faces
- Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment
- Bendigo Bank
- Jennifer, Again
- Bendigo Bank, Again
- Hypothetically
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