This is Spot. Spot can run. Spot can jump. (That sounds familiar...)Being a well-behaved dog with a good understanding of OH&S legislation, Spot is wearing a new high-visibility vest.
But wait…. It seems to have a maker’s logo on it. No, it says, ‘Vote 1 Cathy McGowan’.
What a naughty dog!
Spot is a political animal. He is trying to influence the way we vote.
Spot does not think that the inhabitants of Indi are getting value from their federal representative.
Spot does not think that the major political parties are seeking to do what is best for the nation. They are too busy seeing who can be meaner to refugees. And the local member is certainly too busy nodding in the background of all the news-grabs of Tony Abbott to be representing her safe electorate.
Spot sent a spy to a “Meet the candidates” gathering, and was very disappointed in most of the aspiring and sitting MPs. Spot even considered drawing horns and a bifurcated tail on the Vote For Sophie placards.
Spot has a dream.
Lots of people vote for Cathy. Cathy goes to Parliament as our representative. Things get better.
Cathy cares about Indi. Cathy expects the community and the politicians to solve problems together, and they do.
But the big question is whether most people will be tempted by the promise of a tax cut and wealth trickling down from Gina Reinhart’s mines to the poor people, or whether they will use their brain.
Spoken and authorised by Spot, in Wodonga, not that far from the Indigo Valley.
Especially not as the dog runs.
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