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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
... contact your state member and get in their face. ...
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The good old days of writing to your local member are gone I'm sorry to say. Perhaps it's because of the sheer volume of stuff they get, but the realities are that incoming emails/letters from constituents and others is so great that pollies have staff who read this stuff and filter it. They send out a stock reply usually enclosing some link to some speech some pollie has made and boasting what great things their party has done etc etc. If your email/letter is about an energy issue, you'll get stock replies about that. If it's about health, education, law and order, etc etc, you'll get stock responses about that as well.
You WILL NOT get any meaningful response to the issue you have raised.
So while I applaud the sentiment, I regret that it is just micturating into the wind.
Peter