So much for democracy

Local government is controlled by the State Government and, on the Central Coast, the Government chose to amalgamate the two councils without the ratepayers and citizens having any say in the matter.

So much for democracy, and it gets worse.

I wrote to all the ward councillors and the mayor regarding many local issues and did not receive one reply.

A perceptive commentator remarked: "We do not live in a democracy but in an elected party dictatorship."

And the people?

Well, who cares?

Letter, 16 Apr 2018

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy