Hi All, There are still protests going on because: (a) The organisers are thinking tactically, not strategically. (b) The organisers don't know when to give up. This horse is well and truly dead. They've got no hope of turning around something this far advanced. (Labor has even said it will honour any contracts signed by the Lib Government on this, if they win.) (c) The organisers may be attempting to maintain negative impacts on the Libs, thus ensuring the lead that Labor has in the upcoming election does not slide back. (Self-defeating, actually. This will pull the Greens and the micro parties out of influence, as Labor won't need their votes with an outright majority.) (d) The intel the organisers have isn't sophisticated enough to identify the UPCOMING issues that are still "winnable", be it a Labor or Liberal initiative. (e.g. "We can't go ahead with an airport railway, as we've got to give these big tax cuts and incentives to (major donors)." (e) The organisers are expending more energy on making their active membership and supporters happy, than focusing on what will most effectively impress the most important voters. Sure, public opinion seems against it. (Only 43% for it. But details of the Age survey were not disclosed.) What do the swing voters living in the marginal seats think? They're the only ones who really matter to the pollies. And one needs to show me the methodology of a survey before I'll put much faith in it. Besides: Protests, particularly if they inconvenience people, are excellent at =backfiring= on the organisers. (Excellent at turning the "undecideds" against the protest.) That's why, in the vast majority of instances in contemporary Western countries, protests are the tool of the losing side. e.g. The Vietnam War was called off in the USA in SPITE of the protests, NOT because of them. First-year introductory Public Relations case study material. Carl Turney Bayswater On 29/06/14 15:39, Brent Wallis wrote:
Why? Seems to me that every weekend protest notches up the compo payout for the rich landowners around the proposed development. The greens in particular seem to be the instigators and that beggars comprehension.
? I don't understand..... how does this weekends protest do anything other than up the taxpayer price for an infra need that is long overdue?
Sure, public transport needs to be a priority, but in the end, what about moving freight? They can't catch a train or bus. ????
BW
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