Communication with MPs EN1252

Some of our MPs don't like talking with their constituents and this goes all the way to replying to emails and social media questions and answers.


 So a petition has been put to parliament, up to Llew O'Brien to approve it for signatures, whenever they bother going back to work.


Terms:

• Reason: Some members of parliament block voters on social media. Some mark emails as spam. Some just don't bother answering emails. Parliament House information sheet 15 says "communication skills are important in all aspects of a Member’s work, but are particularly so in working with constituents" My local MP Andrew Wallace said of Twitter " I find twitter to be an electronic version of the “Canberra bubble” and for the life of me do not understand why people use it." Another Sunshine Coast MP Ted O'Brien hasn't used Twitter since March 2016 and even the Chair of the Petitions Committee hasn't used Twitter since September 2019. A lot of the Petitions Committee aren't even members on Twitter. Nearly 5 million Australians use Twitter for regular communication and quite often political discourse. Hiding from voters in the Canberra Bublé is not the way democracy is supposed to work. You MPs are there for we the voter not you donors.
• Request: We therefore ask the House to instruct Members to begin communicating with voters by answering emails, stop blocking social media and email accounts, answering Twitter and Facebook questions posted by voters. 

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The link to the parliament house petition page is here.

 

EN1255 where are they

Our politicians go missing regularly.  And we don't know where they are.


So petition EN1255 has been lodged, hopefully they will accept the petition and start listing where the work shy bludgers are at any given moment.


Terms:

• Reason: A national fire emergency has been happening since at least August 2019 and is continuing into January 2020. Parliament has sat for just 20 days in that time. The emergency has been labelled the Hawaiian Holiday fires because our Prime Minster took off for a holiday and apparently no one knew where he was. My own local MP Andrew Wallace has done the same, emails to his office are answered with a message saying he is missing from 20/12/19 until 13/1/20. Mr Dutton the minister responsible for Home Affairs which is responsible for Emergency Management seems to have gone missing and we don't know where he are. We voters need to know where our Members of Parliament are so we can find them to ask for help if needed or to ask for information if wanted.
• Request: We therefore ask the House to arrange for a web page to be created and updated regularly showing where our elected representatives are. This must show their current location live and any future projected locations. 

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