3AW broadcasts news I trust, but question too. It is not unthinking trust as with the defence of Hillary Clinton’s confession that she had emails the Russians hacked. Leftists follow Clinton and Clinton takes her followers for granted. My trust is that I can question their material and place it within my world. The issue was driven home to me today when Neil Mitchell, who tends to lightly favour the left, was interviewing a Green former mayor. He was asking for what the secret was for Green success in recent Greater Dandenong election. I listened to a few absurd declarations, and then called in to provide a reply. 3AW has never accepted any of my calls. The Green vote is increasing in local councils. But that is not because of improved garbage collection or trust in Green administration. In my ward of Red Gum in Greater Dandenong, three Greens sympathisers hold the seats. They all look to have been re elected. The most ambitious of them, the best performer, has 27% of the first preference vote. That, after taking a year off work to focus solely on politics. The last act of the last council was to deny 100 houses approval to be built. They were medium development in Noble Park and Keysborough and the land was zoned medium development. But they were knocked back on spurious grounds. Several investors will lose money because they wanted to develop land in Greater Dandenong. Green policy is to prevent overdevelopment. But none of them can point out to me what has been over developed.

Businesses I have visited tell me they need things, like more flexible opening hours and car parks that make their business more accessible. Greens oppose this. Garbage collection is weekly and recycling is fortnightly with vegetable waste collected alternate weeks to recycling. There might be a reason for it to be that way. In Italy, garbage collection is daily from a local depot. Recycling seems expensive when land is abundant for landfill. Maybe people are fooled and vote Green. But the questions should be put to them. If they can justify their decision, they should. And if they can’t, they shouldn’t be protected. To be fair to Neil Mitchell, he did ask about BDS. But then Mitchell said BDS might be harshly judged as being labelled anti-semitic. In fact, BDS is almost by definition anti-semitic.
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