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Old 23rd Nov 2019, 00:39
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Senators Susan McDonald and Rex Patrick are leaders in this and there are others. We should support them, ring write contact your local MP and State Senators with that message.
Indeed. Senator Susan McDonald even crossed the floor to support Senator Patrick's motion to disallow the CASA community service kneejerk.

But they lost.

Most of the Laborials voted against the motion, with their spokespersons expressing bipartisan trust in CASA.

And Senator McDonald may find herself being disendorsed if she makes a habit of crossing the floor (the Liberal policy of purportedly tolerating such behaviour, notwithstanding). The Laborials are about maintaining the comfy duopoly - sorry, I meant 'safety' - and that requires unity.

The only glimmer of hope is in voting the Laborials out. Even then, the people who replace them won't get anywhere unless they have an executable plan to dismember the regulatory Frankenstein and create something that isn't left to merely develop into yet another Frankenstein.
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