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Lady Thatcher (1925-2013), who has just passed away in London, made a particular point of attending the central event of the Australia Week celebrations in 2000. It is said of Lady Thatcher, that she of all politicians was known for exactly what she believed in and that moreover that she unswervingly followed those beliefs. Her attendance indicated her strong belief and appreciation of our country, our traditions, our values, our institutions and our successes, as well as our great contributions to the Commonwealth, the English speaking countries and indeed, to freedom itself. This is short anecdote concerning the event relayed to 2GB's Alan Jones.

On Foxtel's Sky News programme "Richo" on 3 April 2013 Opposition leader Tony Abbott faced tough questioning from Graham Richardson and 2GB's Alan Jones, ranging over renewable energy and CSG mining on prime agricultural land as well as superannuation changes.

Why is NSW Liberal Premier Barry O’Farrell siding with the Gillard government and Attorney General Nicola Roxon in proposing further restrictions on free speech? Why is Alan Jones to be called before the inquiry Premier O’Farrell set up? To find the answers, Andrew Moore interviewed Alan Jones on 2GB on 16 January 2012.

In an interview with Alan Jones broadcast on 2GB on 12 December 2012 the NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell, the Premier said he was bound by coal seam gas (CSG) licences and exploration rights on prime agricultural and urban land and even near major dam catchment areas granted by the previous Labor government. If he did, he says, the government would be liable to pay massive compensation. Now in this interview broadcast on 14 December 2012 Alan Jones speaks to CANdo’s Professor David Flint. Flint argues that there is no constitutional or legal barrier to stop the Premier from acting in the way the voters at the last election expected. Parliament, he says, could stop these activities. Indeed he wonders why Parliament did not enact immediately after the last election a Protection of Prime Agricultural and Urban Land (including Water Catchments) Act, 2011 It will be said that if such a law empowered the government to act acts, investors would lose confidence. Some CSG miners who are lusting after prime agricultural land and urban land will. But this is only because the land is close to infrastructure. Infrastructure funded by the taxpayers. Do we really need them? The country is sitting on a sea of CSG – so why don’t they leave prime agricultural land to future generations? Governments –especially in NSW and Queensland – will be more and more on the nose if they don’t do what they were elected for. More evidence – if there need be – for the people to be empowered with the tools of direct democracy.

You think you own the dream property you scrimped to buy? That if it has to be taken for some public purpose, at least you will get fair compensation. Only Marxist, communist states take property without compensation. And that doesn’t happen in Australia . Not in our democracy. Well it does. Beware – governments can effectively steal your property, and give you nothing in return. Not only can they do this, they are doing it now along the New South Wales coast. Another reason why the people must be empowered to make our politicians accountable more than only once in every three or four years. They have to be made accountable on every day, of every week, and of every month. As they are in some other countries. All this is happening in the twenty first century in New South Wales as local councils rezone land as E2 and E3 zones under Local Environmental Plans (LEP’s)authorised by the NSW Parliament under previous Labor governments. The Coalition government has not been in a hurry to reverse this. The agenda is not to protect pristine undeveloped land. It’s to sterilize existing agricultural or developed land, eventually to remove all human activity,including farming and tourism. And who is to pay? It’s the landowners – they’re to lose the use of their property, and there will be no compensation on just terms. And as vast tracts of privately owned land are frozen, governments have decided to cram even more people into high rise developments in our overcrowded cities. Urban consolidation led by big developers is being encouraged. It’s an alliance we have seen in the United States – politicians, often claiming to be on the left, enriching themselves and working with wealthy forces against farmers and small business people, forcing them into overcrowded cities. In New South Wales, some farmers have found that if they leave a field fallow, they have to spend thousands of dollars to seek bureaucratic approval just to use their land again. Property values have been slashed, banks refuse to lend and nobody will buy. You can’t clear regrowth to minimize bushfire risks. Take one example. Bernard and Rikki Grinberg’s Ballina Beach Village is a small business and small businesses are the biggest source of employment in the country. But the politicians have targeted small business like these, limiting their plans to employ young people, and threatening their viability. As Rikki Grinberg explains here, the Ballina Beach Village was inexplicably rezoned E2 and although there is an existing use exemption, “every time they want to change anything, whether it is to use crockery at their kiosk, hire a singer to play in their piano bar, renovate the interior of an old shed to turn it into a yoga studio, even trim a branch off a termite-infested tree that might fall on a tent, they have to submit a development application and prove to Ballina Shire Council they are not “intensifying” the use of their land.” ( Miranda Devine in The Daily Telegraph 28 July 2012) They have spent enormous sums on lawyers and town planners just to keep their business. It's wrong. It's undemocratic. It’s un-Australian. And it's happening now. We must stop it. All of us - or we will suffer too.

Caught out trying to stop the funding of troops flying home for Christmas – while ministers fly the world first class going to nothing more than photo opportunities - the Gillard Government has worked out a new way to run down our defences. Now they’re putting the boot into those patriotic school boys and school girls who have volunteered as cadets. There are around 14,000 of them. Now among the core functions of government are the defence of the realm and securing our borders. On both counts this Gillard government has failed. They’ve reduced defence spending to the disastrous levels which prevailed when we went, unprepared, into the Second World War. They’ve thrown the borders open to illegal immigrants who are housed by the taxpayer, who invite in their relatives and most of whom are unemployed and on welfare even after five years here. Among some groups the employment rate is less than 10%. The Gillard government has showered the world with so called “aid” to buy a next to useless seat on the United Nations Security Council so Julia Gillard, Bob Carr and even Kevin Rudd can grandstand in New York. They are cutting by almost one third the allowances for supervising staff, the cadets exchange program has been cancelled, and funding for national and regional activities dropped. This is an unbelievably petty attack on the youth of our country. It's not as bad as the Whitlam government’s arrogant decision to disband the cadets but it's coming close to it. And this from a government which throws around billions of dollars, losing, for example, several billion dollars on the so-called Building the Education Revolution.

Four polls came out today and Labor is celebrating. Prematurely I think. Of the four, Newspoll alone gives Labor any comfort. Perhaps Mr. O’Shaughnessy should have run it again. Newpoll puts the two parties equal at 50:50. This is an improbable - but not impossible jump from last time. This result was 45: 50 in favour of the Coalition. What makes it look like a rogue poll is that all the other polls say the Coalition would win at least comfortably, although there is a warning in one aspect of Morgan. Newspoll says Julia Gillard is easily preferred as prime minister, rising from 39:38 to 46:32. Her disapproval rating fell 5 points from 57 to 52, and her approval rating rose similarly from 31 to to 36. Tony Abbott’s hardly changed – falling one point to an approval rating of 30% and rising up one on his disapproval rating to 60%. Nielsen says the Coalition prevails comfortably in the two party preferred 53:47. Worse for the government, Labor friendly Essential agrees but at 55:45. Roy Morgan comes in with a finding in favour of the Coalition at 53.5-46.5. Unlike the other polls Morgan is face-to face. Also Morgan actually asks people how they would apply their preferences. Everybody else applies them as in the last election. If Morgan did this, the coalition lead would fall to 50.5:49.5, closer to Newspoll. Neilson also found that if Kevin Rudd replaced Julia Gillard, Labor would prevail over the coalition, 53: 47. This result is unlikely to be followed in an election. Were the ALP to overthrow Julia Gillard and return to Kevin Rudd, the Coalition would campaign on the many very vicious attacks on the public record made on Kevin Rudd by his own front bench during his last challenge. He would become the issue in any election. Neilson also found that Malcolm Turnbull, who is by far Labor voters preferred Liberal, is now also preferred by Liberal voters 53: 45. In the last poll Tony Abbott was preferred by Liberal voters by a close 50:49. It’s unlikely this will affect the Liberal backbench - unless the polls indicate, over time, that Labor would win. And the crucial measure is the two party preferred, not who is the most popular leader. This is not America. These polls probably entrench Ms. Gillard in the Labor leadership. The caucus would have to be desperate to change leaders now, and Newspoll gives them hope. In the unlikely event that Newspoll’s conclusions hold and are followed in the other polls - and this continues over a few months - an early election is on the cards.

Congratulations. People power - including the petition many of you signed on this site - has worked. The government has taken notice of your message to stop kicking our soldiers, sailors and airmen in the guts. They've given in – they've reinstated free flights home for single defence personnel over 21. Opposition spokesman Stuart Robinson MP says it's an embarrassing back flip for the government. He moved a motion in the House to disallow the regulations, and the government caved in. Now, he says, Australian sailors, soldiers and airmen and women can plan their leave While the budget measure was aimed at single defence personnel over 21, it was clear from what was being said that the Gillard government had younger and married personnel in their sights. This was decided while ministers and bureaucrats were happy to fly the world in first or business class, staying in five-star accommodation for talkfests, the communiqués for which have been written in advance. These important meetings are too often no more than photo opportunities for government propaganda. And the Gillard government is still kicking our defenders in the guts. Plans to properly equip and upgrade the service have been set aside – the Gillard government has slashed defence spending down to the levels applying before the Second World War. Surely it's time that the Australian people were given the right to petition for a recall election government which is failing them

I might expect my accountant, my lawyer, or even my web hosting company to refer to me as a client. Why? Well, they all have one thing in common - they are professionals for whose services I have paid. So what's with politicians, bureaucrats and now even the media elites referring to asylum seekers as "clients". Remember, doesn't a client pay you? Since when do you pay your clients? In my confusion, I sought clarification from the dictionary. But you could have knocked me over with a feather when I discovered that a client now includes "a person being dealt with by social services". I know that dictionaries must reflect the usage of a word, but surely not when it's only by the political class? This is an entirely new phenomenon, certainly not reflected in earlier editions of The Oxford English Dictionary. However, I shouldn't discriminate, this isn't restricted to asylum seekers - even Centrelink refers to its new breed of welfare dependants as clients! This is a transparent device used by politicians, bureaucrats and media elite to disguise their plans to create a welfare dependant class, redistribute income, spend other peoples money, and steal their property. My message to the bearcats and politicians is to stop this Orwellian 1984 newspeak and to use English honestly. Worse, will the mainstream media give up reproducing the spin the politicians dish out - instead do you jobs properly and report the news objectively. Australians are sick and tired of listening to your drivel and spin.

Christians are subject to shocking persecution in Muslim countries, as the following report from Raymond Ibrahim of the New York based Gatestone Institute reveals. At the same time Muslims are paying criminal people smugglers to come here from a safe Muslim country, Indonesia, claiming refugee status. Most hide their papers presumably to make misrepresentations to the Australian authorities. So why is the Gillard government still so half hearted in taking the necessary measures to stop illegal immigration? Raymond Ibrahim says that several reports appearing in July indicate that Christian minorities all around the Muslim world—especially women and children—are being abducted, tortured, raped, forced to convert to Islam, and/or enslaved. . In Egypt, at least 550 such cases have been documented in the last five years. They have increased since the revolution. He says Christians who manage to escape back to their families often find the government siding with the Muslim abductors. One young mother who recently testified before the Helsinki Commission explained how she was snatched in broad daylight, as her abductor shouted to bystanders while dragging her to a waiting taxi, "No one interfere! She is an enemy of Islam." Mr Ibrahim says that identical reports are emerging from Pakistan, where "persecution, kidnapping and abduction of Christian women and girls," including many married women with children, are on the rise. Last year the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said that 1800 Christian and Hindu girls were forcibly converted to Islam. Most recently, the under age sister of a pastor was "kidnapped raped and forcibly converted to Islam." She "was kidnapped around a month ago by some Muslim men while returning home from college. She was held for days, suffered sexual abuse, threats and violence. In such a state of terror and exhaustion, first she was coerced into converting to Islam, and then marriage. Her family reported the incident to the police station in Chunian, but no investigations have been conducted and instead her abductors have presented a report to the court attesting to the girl now being Muslim and legally married. He says that the tiny Palestinian Christian community in the Hamas-run Gaza strip is also under siege, and charges that five Christians were abducted and pressured into converting to Islam. Because they made this forced conversion charge known, "members of the Christian community now fear reprisal attacks by Muslim extremists." One said that if the West continues to turn a blind eye to their tragedy, “in a few months there will be no Christians left in Palestine. Today it's happening in the Gaza Strip, tomorrow it will take place in Bethlehem." While this is going on in Muslim countries, the Gillard government is still, as they say, ” intercepting” boats loaded with illegal immigrants. Intercepting? Make that welcoming. Read more: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3318/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012

The Australian Building and Construction Commission, the ABCC, was well armed and tough. This was especially so for the bully-boy unions in Victoria and Western Australia, where builders had to pay for peace, says Andrew Bolt. KPMG says that as a result the community was $5.9 billion a year better off. Labor promised to get rid of it in the 2007. Kevin Rudd didn’t move fast enough for the union bosses. Money talks. At the last election the Electrical Trades Union gave a $325,000, not to Labor, but to the Greens. You see, the Greens had opportunistically promised to help abolish the ABCC. Its failure? It had brought peace to the construction industry. The union bosses - and the Greens - didn’t like that. Presumably the ABCC was doing terrible things to the environment. Or do the Greens support thugs punching police horses? As Andrew Bolt says, Julia Gillard understood this unsubtle message. She delivered.. The powerful ABCC was wound up . Almost as soon as this happened, the thugs were out on the streets. Just as the people smugglers took their cue from Rudd and Gillard winding up the Pacific solution. The ABCC was replaced with the Fair Work Building and Construction agency. There’s that word “fair” again. It means weak and useless. This is the tactic of the Gillard and Rudd governments. They create powerless agencies like Fair Work Australia. Remeber Fair Work Australia took over three years to investigate Craig Thomson and the Health Services Union. Even then they didn't produce a brief on evidence the prosecutors could use. Remember too, the powerless Corgill inquiry into the five or so billion dollars BER rort. Compare that with the open powerful Royal Commission into the Australian Wheat Board under a respected judge which John Howard established. He also agreed that if the judge needed additional terms of reference these would be given. The hearings gave Kevin Rudd an evening TV platform to attack the government. But John Howard did the right thing Is it the government doesn’t know what it is doing? Or are open borders, thugs on the streets and thugs ruling the construction industry part of the Gillard government agenda? To read Andrew Bolt's comment go to: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/union-thugs-free-rein-to-punch-police-horses/story-e6frezz0-1226461084986

Is what has happened in Sydney the same across the country? As an example – just one example - of the absence of law and order on the streets of Sydney, you’re not even safe on the footpaths in the CBD broad daylight. When a correspondent complained in the Sydney Morning Herald that despite extreme caution, she and her dog nearly became “road kill” cyclist when crossing the infamous Bourke Street, Surry Hills, cycleway, one of the cyclist associations quoted statistics suggesting bicycle pedestrian collisions were extremely rare. But as Donald Urquhart of Rozelle replied (27/8) “many pedestrians have simply given up on reporting such incidents....” He says “.. the chances of identifying the offender are almost nil in light of the lack of ways of readily identifying the cyclist” . He says the bicycle apologists “.. should spend some time in Sydney's CBD on any weekday...” He complains about cyclists “riding through red lights, riding the wrong way on one-way streets and, most annoying and dangerous of all, riding illegally on footpaths.” He concludes “It really is time that some protection is afforded to pedestrians.” “While most cyclists behave sensibly, the small but growing number that do not must eventually lead to consideration of registration for all cyclists.” Well most Sydney pedestrians would agree. It seemed better to me when I was in Melbourne recently. Is it just that Sydney’s authorities can’t be bothered doing their jobs?

Australians will be amazed that taxpayers are actually spending $150 million dollars a year on a veritable battalion of government spin doctors – about 1600, according to The Australian (14/8). But that’s not all. There are also more spin doctors in the parallel public service that governments now surround themselves with, the so-called ministerial advisors. Among the Prime Minister’s, there is her chief spin doctor, John McTernan. He was imported -no doubt at great expense from the UK. He had gained -shall we say - certain notoriety when he spun for the Blair government. He became better known here when he phoned 2GB’s financial commentator, Ross Greenwood, who described the call as an ''absolute tirade'' laced with incessant use of the ''F bomb.'' And you the taxpayer are paying every cent of this. But not content with this, and with a curious readiness of some in the media to report these spin doctored press releases as fact, the Prime Minister and her Communications Minister Senator Conroy are now threatening to gag those journalists who try as best they can to report the facts rather than the government spin. We are going down a dangerous path indeed.

There are still hard questions to be answered to put the AWU scandal to rest. As Michael Smith has explained on a series of videos on www.cando.org.au , a sham AWU non-profit entity was set up in the nineties. Its purpose was to siphon funds to two AWU organisers, Bruce Wilson and Ralph Blewitt. Bruce Wilson was romantically involved with Julia Gillard, then a partner in a Melbourne law firm. Vast sums were withdrawn in cash. The sham entity was even used buy a house. Ms. Gillard’s firm acted without charge. They even arranged a first mortgage. And when the solicitors asked for a bank cheque to pay for the balance, this was actually paid by a cheque on the sham entity. But when the fraud was exposed, Ms Gillard denied knowing anything about Wilson and Blewitt’s illegal activities. She said that she was young and naive. Although she had said that she was not going anywhere, she soon left the law firm. When she is asked about this, she says her answers are on the public record. They aren’t. Robert McClelland, who subsequently became Kevin Rudd's Attorney General, called for a Royal Commission but there was no enquiry into the fraud. When she became PM he was replaced as Attorney General.. The affair has resulted in some significant collateral damage, as the Americans say. This is the law firm Slater and Gordon. They have one of the largest and widest networks of law offices in the country specialising in insurance claims, commercial, family and asbestos-related law. Slater and Gordon's managing director, Andrew Grech, put out a press release last Friday. They are asking their former clients permission to reveal details of the transactions. You see communications between lawyers and their clients are privileged. Only the client can waive this Understandably, the present partners of Slater and Gordon are tired of being dragged into the mud by this scandal in which they are no way personally involved . And isn’t it time there was a Royal Commission into the financial affairs of the AWU, the HSU and other unions? The public is sick and tired of these powerless enquiries that cannot compel the production of documents or the sworn testimony of witnesses. Only a Royal Commission can get the answers to the “hard questions” which Australians are demanding be answered. CANdo, on a tiny budget and using volunteers has done what the mainstream media cannot or will not do. Once Julia Gillard huffed and puffed, they all went to water.

Is there anything the Gillard government cannot handle competently? That socialist monopoly, the NBN, was born on the back of an envelope when communications minister Stephen Conroy managed to obtain an audience with Kevin Rudd on the prime ministerial jet . There is no cost benefit study and the billions - over $40 billion - are all off budget. They could pour $100 billion into the NBN and it wouldn't appear in the budget. It would have no effect on the surplus or deficit. What an appalling scam. The initial NBN plan was released in December 2010 by Julia Gillard. Kevin Morgan, who was the ACTU member Kim Beazley's advisory committee on telecommunications, says that plan is now in tatters. At the time, corporate advisers Greenhill Caliburn reported that “that, taken as a whole, the corporate plan for the development of the NBN is reasonable." That report cost $1.1 million. But the NBN has achieved only 9 per cent of its rollout target for homes passed by fibre and 3 per cent of the planned connections where customers are hooked up to broadband. Based on its initial estimates, by June this year 317,000 households should have been passed with fibre and 137,000 homes actually connected to a broadband service. Writing in The Australian on 7 August 2012 Kevin Morgan points out that fewer than 25,000 homes had been passed and fewer than 4000 connected. He says this is not just a debacle. Its an abject failure by NBN Co, especially in new (greenfield) housing estates. Lessr than 20 months after predicting that 172,000 greenfield premises would be passed and 132,000 connected, 0.6 per cent of the coverage target and less than 0.2 per cent of the active service target have been met. Kevin Morgan says many homeowners will have a long wait for new telephone services. But if NBN Co is failing dismally on delivering the fibre promised to 93 per cent of homes, he says it is at least making progress on its wireless and satellite services for the other 7 per cent. That's because NBN Co has little active involvement in building either. These have been fully contracted out, albeit at considerable cost. The average capital cost of the wireless and satellite services will be about $14,000. Given each service will yield less than $300 a year in revenues; these rural services will require ongoing annual subsidies of at least $3000 a year per service. In contrast, Optus and Telstra are building far faster new-generation mobile networks at a cost in the hundreds of dollars, not thousands, for each customer. To repeat, is there anything the Gillard government cannot handle competently?

Intercepted? The people smugglers boats are not intercepted. They are welcomed. With open arms. According to the Encarta dictionary, to intercept is “to prevent people or objects from reaching their destination or target by stopping, diverting, or seizing them.” Encarta gives this example “The contraband was intercepted by police at the dock.” The Gillard government doesn’t intercept smugglers’ boats. The smugglers clients are welcomed, given government homes and put on welfare. So far 1278 clients have been welcomed this month, 6535 this year. Ms. Gillard and her ministers have welcomed 91 boats this year. The government’s spin doctors won’t tell us, but 2GB’s Ray Hadley revealed on 24 July that once again, smugglers’ clients at the Villawood detention centre have jammed blankets into smoke alarms and set their more than ample taxpayer funded accommodation on fire. Meanwhile, moving smugglers’ clients from the crowded facility on Christmas Island to the mainland is costing up to $180,000 a flight, according to Gemma Jones in The Daily Telegraph (24/7)

Something strange and rather ominous is happening in Australia. The Gillard government plans to do something no democratic government should. It's trying to work out how to gag the media. They are especially targeting one newspaper-The Australian. Now for most of history, a national daily newspaper was a pipe dream for such a large country. But back in ‘64, Rupert Murdoch decided to start a national newspaper - even before the technology was ready. He kept the newspaper going at a loss for decades. The Australian took on causes even before they were fashionable. Such as aboriginal disadvantage. They ran with others, like the republic, which turned out to be a dead loss. Most importantly The Australian has given both sides a go. And thrashed each side when they believed they deserved it. But the Gillard government can't take it. Just as they can't take the daily exposure of their failings by talkback radio - especially by 2GB’s Alan Jones and Ray Hadley. This is dangerous stuff. The government is now working out ways to control the media, to make it more compliant. They talking about a star chamber- called a media council -to do the controlling. Then there's to be a a special law to deal with Gina Rinehart. We haven't had special laws against individuals since the bills of attainder. They were used to declare someone guilty of a crime, often treason. Without a trial. And then they were executed. They were declared unconstitutional in the US. This bill of attainder against Gina Rinehart is to stop her acquiring Fairfax. The camouflage is to be a so-called public interest test. It will be a political interest test. Is this acquisition in the political interests of the Gillard government? And now we have the extraordinary news that Fairfax’s chief executive,Greg Hywood, has refused to sign a letter of protest from media organisations to the government. He told The Australian “We're not about to sign a form letter penned by News Limited to deal with the problem it created for the media industry in this country.” The problem The Australian created for the media? What does he mean? The media doing theirs job – exposing government failings and not just publishing government press releases -creates a problem? Isn’t this the clearest reason for Fairfax to grab the help that Gina Rinehart is offering. Fairfax is in a mess because the ownership that is the board long ago abandoned its responsibility. It handed over control of its once proud journals of record - the Herald and The Age - to left-wing journalist collectives. And in their now dire financial position Fairfax is panicking. Fairfax is desperately screaming out for leadership. Leadership of the sort that Murdoch offers News Limited. Isn’t it time to give Gina Rinehart a go?

They are intent on stealing your property. But they don’t have to actually take it. But the politicians can- at the stroke of a pen- make your property worthless. And they are doing it. In so many ways. That’s why we are campaigning to ensure the politicians become the servants of the people. And not the masters. We say this people’s power should be in the constitution. In the meantime here’s one example of the people winning over our politicians. Gosford City Council on Monday night agreed to withdraw a message on planning certificates saying: "This land has been identified as being potentially affected by sea level rise of up to 0.9m by the year 2100''. And now Jacques Laxale of the Consumer and Taxpayer Association has called a rally this Saturday at 2pm against the nearby Wyong Council. It’s at the Frank Ballance Memorial Park 20a Margaret St Wyong. This rally will highlight the issues of sea level rises and the carbon dioxide tax. According to the Daily Telegraph the Gosford decision means thousands of coastal property owners have been given relief after their council dumped the controversial clause on planning documents which labelled their homes as in danger of sea level rise. Coastal Residents Incorporated secretary Pat Aitken said home owners had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the values of their homes, and insurance premiums had risen up to 1000 per cent. Councillor Jim Macfadyen said there were 56 NSW councils affected but only 16 had put the message on planning certificates. "There has been a lot of concern and angst, of property prices falling because of that certificate, concern of insurance companies increasing their premiums, all for a report that looks at an event that may happen in 100 years,'' he said. Not that “may happen”. “May happen” according to a computer projection based on some disputed theory. That rally against Wyong Council is on Saturday 7 July at the Frank Ballance Memorial Park 20a Margaret St Wyong And let’s make our politicians accountable on every day of every week of every month every year. The politicians should be the servants of the people the masters.