Voter Control
It is hard to understand why Australians would choose to protest https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/minns-might-have-lost-in-court-but-he-knew-failed-protest-laws-were-a-winner-20260416-p5zoil.html instead of persuading their elected politicians to do what they want. Since the introduction of Votergrams 40 years ago MPs in every parliament have shown themselves more than willing to consider and act upon good sensible, fair and just constructive suggestions from voters. Voters can absolutely control their governments because they absolutely control the careers of politicians! Parliament works for the people who drive it. But the silent majority can never be heard, by definition.
Confrontation should be the last resort
Protest is about confrontation. It makes politicians look stupid, negligent and incompetent. That is not the way to convince anyone to do anything. One can only imagine that protest is an ego trip for the protesters. It should be the last resort. The most effective form of confrontation is to go quietly into marginal electorates and campaign against the candidates of uncooperative governments.
Wasted Effort
In the case mentioned in today’s SMH, surely it would have been obvious to the protesters that the NSW Government could not do anything at all to stop the war in Palestine. Not only that but it set the government and many Australians against that cause, which many had up to then supported.
Futile protest
That the protesters went to court and beat the elected NSW government, delivers another message about social cohesion or the total lack of it. Those who elected that government and dislike violent protests were alienated. That might be the opposite of what the protesters wanted. They probably wanted support and that desire was probably well justified in the minds of many Aussies.
We are all entitled to ask
Jesus said “Ask and you will receive”. There is no reason why that would not work well with government. After all, if we don’t ask, how would our elected parliament know what we wanted. For 40 years now Australians have used Votergrams to ask their governments, via their elected parliaments to do what is wanted and needed. Mostly the government has done what was asked. There is no reason why it would not do what the voters want if they put forward a sensible and fair case.
Give Votergrams a go
Give Votergrams a go when you want it to tackle some topic of interest to you. It is case of sowing good ideas into parliament and seeing the ideas grow just like the seeds in the parable.