January 19th, 2022Your Say – Hepburn Hub at The Rex

Leadership is clearly hard work and not everyone is up for it. Scott Morrison for instance finds it much easier to let us look after ourselves than put his role on the line and actually make a decision about mask mandates.
However, there are certainly some golden rules when it comes to local government.
Rule number one is that if you are going to make a decision concerning millions of dollars, make sure you have consulted far and wide and flagged with everyone what you might be about to do.
I would argue that 99.9 per cent of the shire have been blindsided by the decisions made about The Rex building, and yet we are constantly invited to respond to surveys about sundry other minor things.
To an extent, councillors can’t be expected to ask for guidance on every vote, but they certainly should resist making heady decisions in the heat of the moment without making sure the community knows about it before it comes to a hands-up.
Guaranteed, if it was put to a vote, most of the community would endorse only minor renovations to the existing Daylesford buildings at minimal cost.

• Pat Hockey, Clunes