This is the personal blog of Ian Ker, who was Councillor for the South Ward of the Town of Vincent from 1995 to 2009. I have been a resident of this area since 1985. This blog was originally conceived as a way of letting residents of Vincent know what I have been doing and sharing thoughts on important issues. I can now use it to sound off about things that concern me.

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Saturday, May 17, 2014

The Devil Is In The (Lack Of) Detail

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/17
I have previously drawn attention on this blog to the extraordinary lack of information and justification in the Minister for Local Government's proposals for local government changes. It seems that this is fast becoming a characteristic of right-wing governments in Australia.

 The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has criticised the Abbott government's proposed removal of 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest from world heritage protection for providing 'relatively scant information' to support its case and said the way the boundaries had been drawn for the proposed excision appeared 'somewhat arbitrary'.

 Does that sound familiar?

 If governments of whatever political flavour don't do the hard work to present logical proposals and provide substantial justification for them, are they lazy, incompetent or simply ideologues in pursuit of their own agendas? 

 Or all three?
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