Councils have been so involved in trying to fix society they haven’t notice all the pot holes. We never paid Councils to do anything more than dump our rubbish, fix roads, parks and maintain some basic infrastructure and look after clubs and libraries.
Nevertheless there are more social justice warriors in council than road workers and they insist they have an entitlement to spend our money on the things they want.
At this point in time the agenda of many councils is not to follow the lead of the majority of residents and ratepayers. This country seems to follow the rule of the minority.
Case in point is the stand on Australia Day.
At the time of Australia Day 2023 there were 85 councils that did not support the Australia Day celebrations on the pretext of not wanting to sow division within the community against Aboriginals and some immigrants. Many people would find this quite shocking but there are 537 councils in Australia so all is not lost just yet.
The fact is that many of these councils are taking these controversial steps without the approval or even supposed consultation with residents. Adelaide Hills Council voted not to consult the community on how they want to celebrate the day, if at all, because they believed it would ‘provide a platform to racism’.
When John and Edna Tate of Birdwood found out the Adelaide Hills Council had cancelled Australia Day celebrations on 26 January 2024 they were deeply shocked so they decided to take them to task.
John made a deputation at the Adelaide Hills Council meeting of 26 March 2023 but it was not just a simple protest that celebrations had been cancelled but it aimed to ‘call-out’ what they saw as a wider undermining of the sovereignty of Australia in exchange for a global sovereignty. Nevertheless he was stopped from ‘calling out’ these groups because the council felt it was getting off the subject of Australia Day.
John’s deputation had planned to name groups like the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) European Union (E.U.) World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) and United Nations (U.N.) which many commentators see as trying to impose their globalist agendas onto local people in contravention of local and even international laws. Some older Australians would remember that Australia went to war to fight against powerful European forces that were trying to subvert our sovereignty.
To read the PDF of the full unedited Deputation CLICK HERE
The video has been deleted from Council records but If you would like to listen to the audio please click on the Adelaide Hills Council photo below.
You will need to go to the meeting of 26 March 2024, Click on arrow next to ‘4 documents available’ and on the Minute slider go to 12.45 minutes.
On 23 January 2023 the Institute of Public Affairs commissioned a survey on attitudes toward Australia Day and found 62% of Australians support Australia Day being celebrated on January 26
https://ipa.org.au/ipa-today/new-poll-majority-of-australians-support-26-january-as-australia-day
At about the same time as these events the Onkaparinga Council set up a review of the 4 Australia Day events they plan annually and asked the public to submit their opinions on how they say the day was received.
The broad judgment was that the Council’s four Australia Day events will continue unchanged at this point in time.
“Feedback was captured from 531 people. Sentiment in the survey was split, with around half of respondents wanting to keep all four events on Australia Day,
and slightly less than half wanting to see some sort of change, such as moving the date of the event or ceasing the event.
At the 12 December 2023 meeting Onkaparinga Council a report (refer agenda item 9.2) was presented to Council to share the full community engagement
outcomes, including activities held to capture feedback of First Nations people. The report also shared the advantages/disadvantages of holding a
citizenship ceremony within three days either side of Australia Day, as is now permitted by the Federal Government.
Council noted the report and community engagement outcomes, and council’s four Australia Day events will continue unchanged.”
No doubt if bigger samplings than 531 had been taken the results may have been different but they should not have been vastly different and maybe that should be explained.
“Both broad and targeted promotion was undertaken to promote the engagement opportunity.
Our main feedback tool was an online survey on a dedicated Your Say Onkaparinga page, however we also accepted feedback through letters, emails and
phone calls.
In line with the Council resolution targeted activities were undertaken to capture the feedback from First Nations groups and individuals. Promotion of the
engagement included social media, roadside banners and emails to Your Say Onkaparinga members, community groups on the Community Group Register,
and First Nations led groups/organisations. Engagement opportunities included an online survey, a stall at a NAIDOC event, and activities with First Nations
groups.”
There is nothing wrong with targeting a particular ethnic or racial group provided it is made clear and it’s declared there will be a bias in the final results that needs to be adjusted. In other words the results of the 531 opinions sampled by the Onkaparinga Australia Day Review can not be compared alongside those of the 1,000 people sampled by the Institute of Public Affairs without considerable clarification.
The obvious question remains, were the surveyors aiming their survey at a group within the population that was too narrow?
I don’t want distorted surveys and distorted facts just to fit my own bias. Anyone that wants that is not being completely honest. I must know the facts.
In all of my door knocking during my campaign for Councillor of Pimpala, and that could be many hundreds of homes, I have only ever found a couple of people, at best, who might actively reject the celebration of Australia Day. I understand that selective questioning will draw out the answers we want so we need to be on guard.
We can’t be ruled by minorities but we can still consider what they have to say.
At the following meeting of the Adelaide Hills Council on 9 April 2024 John Tate, Edna Tate and Andrew Nelan all read out part of a one page statement shown below as a testimony to what they saw as the racist views decision of the council in banning Australia Day.
