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24.01.2022 Conflict of interest This is a letter from the Progress Association to the CEO of Darebin ... Dear Sue September 2020 Darebin Progress Association been approached by a resident who asked a question during question time at council on 7th September and advises that he was refused answers to his legitimate questions by the Mayor Susan Rennie because ‘they had been asked before’. Question Time at Darebin Council is a vital component of democratic procedures and transparency. Unfortunately, it has become a bureaucratic game with questions rarely answered satisfactorily. The questions asked concerned conflicts of interest and related to a grant of $350,000 given to Darebin Falcons and of which Cr. McCarthy and the Mayor have children members and players for that club and that Cr. McCarthy is a junior club coach. This resident saw this as a conflict of interest and sought why that was not declared. He also raised a conflict of interest by Deputy Mayor Susanne Newton in relation to the Strathallan Golf Club, which is owned by LaTrobe University and that Cr. Newton is an employee of that University and is an industry member on the Academic Board there. There appears to be a conflict of interest at play here that merits an explanation. Could you explain why these legitimate questions were not allowed? Yours sincerely MARION HARPER HON.SECRETARY

21.01.2022 It’s very clear that more and more of the community are questioning how our society operates. Asking, what is an economy and who should it serve. Post pandemic will we be satisfied with corrupt, unprincipled politics which result in a large section of the community living in poverty, with privatisation of our services, with thousands without a secure home. With a privately owned media telling us how to think/vote/live. With the gap between rich and poor growing daily. Tying us to a failed nation facing civil war led by a psychopath and whose coat tails our government is tied. Will we continue post pandemic with these unacceptable policies or will we demand change. Think about it, what kind of programme do you want for your family.?

17.01.2022 We surveyed all candidates these candidates said they would save Preston Market.

16.01.2022 eons ago before the state governments interfered councillors made decisions on behalf of their constituents. The same happened in community health. Remember when GOUGH introduced community health centres. They were community run to meet community needs. Quickly whittled away. You can’t have working class people making important decisions! Now councillors have no say over staffing! That is now the prerogative of the richly paid CEO. So when the meals on wheels programme was recently merged with Moreland, how many Darebin staff were made redundant at a time when there’s no jobs. I have written to CEO asking this question no answer as yet

11.01.2022 Are you concerned?

10.01.2022 At no previous time in my memory as a political activist have I witnessed the degree of corruption emanate from the stench of federal parliament as is currently emerging. It’s not just the criminality of it, but the arrogant acceptance that the monied class are entitled to criminality without consequence.

05.01.2022 The pandemic is catastrophic, but it has achieved a notable exposure of the gross failure of our system. World wide, the greed, corruption and exploitation of millions of innocent people have been laid bare. What kind of a system allows acute poverty, hunger, no access to health care while a small number abuse the system to increase their already gross wealth. How can tiny socialist Cuba, under savage sanctions, manage to avoid the homeless, hungry and health denied mass of people in other Latin American countries? What should we be demanding post pandemic? We certainly can’t go back to poverty, homeless, unemployed,under employed, privatised mess we were in. We need a charter of demands setting out what we will accept.

03.01.2022 Darebin https://www.theage.com.au//darebin-council-fails-employer-