Category: Voters

Stop abuse of Australian children in Child Care

Stop abuse of Australian children 

The “somebody” who has to act is YOU! The time is right now!

Nobody else cares about your children or grandchildren like you do. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Jesus taught us to love our children, but some people see them as a means to their own sexual satisfaction.

That must stop. But it will not unless you get involved. Democracy is government “for the people” “by the people”, not by politicians or the media, by you!

Votergrams

Have your say the Votergram way on this vital issue. Tell each and every Member of Parliament what you want done NOW! Christ said “Ask and you will receive”. If you don’t ask there is not much chance of receiving. Votergrams help you knock on the door of each and every Member of parliament, 226 federal and about 100 in most states. That is power. It comes from the combined impact of your voice and your vote plus your power to influence the votes of others. Votergrams have helped voters move metaphorical mountains for nearly 40 years.

Politicians

They represent you and control government which controls child care. Politicians act on what voters ask them to act on. If you don’t tell them they will not know what you want. Don’t rely on the media alone.

Australian politicians, Members of Parliament, are extremely helpful when approached in the right way at the right time. The Honour Roll on the Votergrams website shows you how good they are. We are often misled by the daily media criticism of them designed to attract readers.

Profit-oriented child care operators will be telling politicians that it is all working well except for minor incidents. These are not minor incidents. They damage children’s lives!!

Votergrams have helped Australians to persuasively engage with their elected parliamentarians all over Australia on a multitude of issues for nearly 40 years. That is what makes democracy work.

Votergrams are the most effective way of parents influencing government.

Email team@votergrams.au or call us on 0428 417 496 or 02 9988 3312

Parable of the sower applied to politics

The Parable

You know the Parable of the Sower. The sower casts seeds in the paddock. Some of them grow and some don’t.

But did you know that it was the parable of the sower that enabled us to develop the Votergram concept for how democratic  governments can function far better for the citizens of their country.

Sowing seeds

It is all very well to elect a good team to govern, but elected representatives need voter feedback to do the job well. Often organisations form and seek donations to convey public opinion to the elected representatives. However, it is more effective if the voters use that money to send Votergrams to all their elected representatives, saying what they want done and explaining why. Organisations do not have any voting power with which to back up their requests. Votes are key in democracy.

The Votergram alternative

The reason it is more effective for voters to communicate with their whole body of elected representatives, is explained by the parable. When we developed Votergrams we were just doing our Christian duty to try to make government work better. Nobody was more surprised than we were. The concept was based on the Congregational Church concept of having to convince the church meeting if as Young Christians we wanted to arrange a dance or music evening in the church hall.

The Link

It was decades before we became to understand that one of the reasons Votergrams worked so well was that voters were sowing seeds of an idea in parliament and some of those seeds would bear fruit and have the idea adopted. Strategies, techniques and research play a part too.

The task is enormous but the workers are few

Different democratic countries have different bodies and systems, but the Votergram concept applies in any genuine democracy. It is about voters working with their elected representatives rather than sitting on the fringes, led by daily media judgement and criticism of the poor unfortunate politicians who are trying to do an extremely difficult job. In most democracies that is made more difficult by the bribery and bullying of big business to suck profit out of the public pockets and pay the very minimum of taxes, to create corporate billionaires. Politicians can best ignore such pressure when voters stand shoulder to shoulder with them in doing so. In Australia each politician represents around 100,000 people with quite different views on many topics. Putting those views directly into parliament enables the Members of Parliament to make better decisions.

There are other stories told by Christ on which Votergrams are also based. More of them another day.