Protest or persuasion
It is hard to understand why Australians would choose to protest https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/minns-might-have-lost-in-court-but-he-knew-failed-protest-laws-were-a-winner-20260416-p5zoil.html instead of persuading their elected politicians to do what they want. Since the introduction of Votergrams 40 years ago MPs in every parliament have shown themselves more than willing to consider and act upon good sensible, fair and just constructive suggestions from voters. Why wouldn’t they. Voters absolutely control the careers of politicians!
Protest is confrontation
Protest is about confrontation. It makes politicians look stupid, negligent and incompetent. That is not the way to convince anyone to do anything. One can only imagine that protest is an ego trip for the protesters.
No justification
In the case mentioned in today’s SMH, surely it would have been obvious to the protesters that the NSW Government could not do anything at all to stop the horrific destructive and deadly bombing of Gaza that has killed so many innocent people. Few would justify the October kidnaping, murder, imprisonment and torture of Israeli citizens, but it hardly justifies the mass murder and destruction of tens of thousands of innocent people.
No impact on invasion
It must also have been obvious to the protesters that their demonmstration in Sydney could not possibly make any difference to the attitudes and action of the Israeli leadership or their supporters in Australia.
Futile protest
That the protesters went to court and beat the elected NSW government, delivers another message about social cohesion or the total lack of it
Ask by and receive
There is an old saying, “Ask and you will receive”. For 40 year now Australians have used Votergrams to ask their elected parliaments to have government do or stop doing things. In about 90% of cases the government has done what was asked. Parenting courses, road safety, generic medicines and no smoking on commercial aircraft all testify to that.
Try Votergrams
Don’t protest when you really want to have government do something. Use Votergrams for polite persistent political persuasion in the privacy of parliament.
