Ah here's what wixxy says
The last time there was talk of reform and new party rules to be put in place in NSW I attended the Labor Western Sydney Regional Assembly. It was to launch a change in rules aptly entitled “A New Standard”.
John Robertson – Setting the standard
The room was full of MP’s and Party leaders all there to hear NSW Labor Leader John Robertson’s speech. However after the speech was finished and the media had left so did all the MP’s and the Sussex St staff. Nobody was left to listen to the rank and file members, it was as if nobody cared what we thought.
Personally I found this disgraceful, and I left with a sour taste in my mouth. We are the membership, we are the ones who hang corflutes, stand outside election booths all day, campaign at shopping centres and train and bus stations faithfully every election. You guys couldn’t spare a couple of hours of your time?
We all ventured into Parramatta on a Sunday morning to have a say, however it seems those running the party, despite organising the event, had somewhere better to be so didn’t hang around to listen to us.
I hope you will show a little more respect for your members and listen to us when it comes to reforming OUR party.
Lastly and a little more light-heartedly, we need to stop the functions at 630 pm on a Friday night in the city.
Most members don’t live or work in the city. This makes racing out of work, venturing into town in peak hour traffic, finding a parking spot, all with no time for a change of clothes or freshen up quite an unpleasant prospect.
I’m sure that stretching the start time to 730 won’t put anybody up past their bedtime.
I sincerely hope that this intervention is a genuine one and not something to be used as a campaign tool to woo back NSW voters as is being suggested in many circles.
I would also welcome the involvement of Labor politicians that have made calls for reform before, people like John Faulkner and Nathan Rees.
We are the political party of the “fair go” and at the moment we are not even offering that to our own members. This is why we need to embrace change not fear it, and have the guts to move forward and change our party for the better.
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The party of a fair go not giving anyone a fair go, Kev will sort it.