Local democracy laid bare

Forum –

Democracy died on the Central Coast at approximately 8pm on Tuesday, October 29.

There had been an attempt an hour earlier by Councillor McWaide to paint a picture of a consensus Council in which the future of the Coast would serve all people.

The picture looked bright; (it was) a speech which was remarkable in its integrity and honesty.

It was not to be as it became obvious that there was a coalition of the Liberal Party and the Team (Central Coast) members and they are going to run the Council to the disenfranchisement of the 50 per cent of the Coast that does not share their aspirations.

Committees will be stacked by Liberal Party and business ideologies and any thought of a Council which thinks for the good of the whole is a dream not to be realised in this Council.

There is also the elephant in the room; the Hunter Development Corporation, which will have Councillor Eaton on its Committee to further give a boost to the “development at all costs” lobby to the detriment of the wider populace.

Email, Oct 30
Geoff Mitchell, Kariong