Politicians and their staff need to be reminded of their station/status. They are OUR elected PUBLIC SERVANTS. I often remind them of their status when they don’t respond (eg not returning correspondence). My local State MP (Provost, NSW) has been poor in the past in that regard. He told me when he rang the other day it was because he received at his office ‘200 letters every day’.
So I wrote a letter to his leader (O’Farrell) which stirred Mr Provost up enough to ring and write to me.
For three years he has not responded to my FXX, Letters, Ph calls and E mails–yes–three years. (I once wrote to his office requesting some particular details in NSW Law about the growing and harvesting of trees). It was not until I read a Letter to the Editor by a constituent as concerned as I was about his lack of proactivity that I decided to do something about the matter.
I have even offered my voluntary services to Mr Provost to assist him in instituting strategies so in fact he can handle the compendious communciation that apparently floods into his office at Tweed Heads.
Warren James
