Bob Murphie
Thanks for you very generous thoughts and a great contest.
Now it's up to ALL of us to harness that corporate vigour to go forward together.
It behoves other members to run at elections to make a contest of things.
And a contest it was, in itself helping to generate more interest.
Long may it continue to be so.
The voting numbers as a percentage were not a surprise to me from my past experience in participation in similar organisations.
Australian Governments are elected on similar margins and they seem to work, it's only the compulsory voting that whilst it makes the number look bigger encourages a donkey vote.
Paul Sheehan in his brillant read, "Amongst the Barbarians" sugests that Oz electors "strike with surgical precision", never letting the balance go too far one way or the other.
We should all be ever mindful of that.
I look forward to having a beer with you at Murray Bridge.