{"id":272918,"date":"2020-08-19T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T03:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=272918"},"modified":"2020-08-19T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T08:13:09","slug":"so-where-were-you-kingaroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/08\/19\/so-where-were-you-kingaroy\/","title":{"rendered":"So Where Were You, Kingaroy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cr Danita Potter, CEO Mark Pitt, Mayor Brett Otto and Council staff … waiting for the residents who didn’t show up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"by Anne Miller<\/strong><\/p>\n

August 19, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

So Kingaroy residents … you must be all happy with the South Burnett Regional Council?\u00a0No issues you’d like to discuss, no questions you’d like to ask or any praise and thanks you’d like to give?<\/p>\n

Mayor Brett Otto has been holding a series of Rates Information sessions around the South Burnett.<\/p>\n

The Mayor was happy with the good turnout at Murgon – the first of the sessions.<\/p>\n

But it seems the folk in Kingaroy must be totally contented with their rates.<\/p>\n

And they must also be fully informed about the issues that surround Council’s annual decision-making process.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, Mayor Otto, Division 3 (Kingaroy) councillor Danita Potter, Council CEO Mark Pitt and Council staff were all ready to field your curly questions in the Town Hall Reception Room.<\/p>\n

Except no one showed up at 5:30pm … well, besides me and my camera.<\/p>\n

It’s not as if the meeting was “secret”. It was well-advertised by Council in local media and on Facebook.<\/p>\n

Decisions are made by those who show up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People who can’t find the time (or can’t be bothered) to take part in the democratic process – ie. talk to their representatives about issues that concern them – have absolutely no right to become keyboard warriors and complain all over social media about what’s happening around them.<\/p>\n

In the old days, the loud and disgruntled ignorati bored people witless in the public bar or over the back fence, testing their friends’ patience but doing very little damage to society.<\/p>\n

Now they jump online in a micro-second to whinge to hundreds and stir up trouble.\u00a0But apparently they also don’t have the guts to talk to people face-to-face.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are interested in the future of your towns, the next rates information sessions will be held on:<\/strong><\/p>\n