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.