An alternate title to this post could well be Dick Adams staff don’t care about his constituents opinions.
Dear Mr Adams,
Yesterday I decided to ring your office in Perth, Tasmania and voice my concerns about the offshore processing of refugees.
Your own website Mr Adams clearly states that
My priority as the Member for Lyons is to listen to the community and work in the best interests of all my constituents.
As your local Federal Member of Parliament, please feel free to seek assistance from me if you have any enquiries in your particular area. My priority is dealing with those issues that are directly related with Federal Government such as Centrelink, Veterans Affairs, Health, Immigration, Superannuation to name a few. I know there are other issues that cross all government boundaries and I am happy to help with those as well.
So I felt pretty confident that I could ring your office, politely tell you that I was concerned about the offshore processing of refugees and then I could happily go about my business, secure in the knowledge that my federal member was listening to me.
What I didn’t expect Mr Adams was your female staff member to be extremely condescending and dismissive of my concerns. I did not expect to be rudely asked where I had received my information about the governments refugee policy. I certainly did not expect to hear a tone of condescension and incredulity when I told your staff member that I receive my information about current affairs via twitter.
Twitter? She scoffed, as if I had just said I received my news bytes via the fairy telegram service at the bottom of the garden.
That was the end of the conversation as far as the office lady was concerned, I could hear the derision and laughter in her voice as she dismissed me as another bleeding heart, lefty, greenie nutter.
And that stung.
Way to go Mr Adams.
I would like to remind you Mr Adams that it is the 21st century. It is also the 21st century in Tasmania.
I use twitter as my main means of information gathering about all world events.
I tweeted my displeasure at your offices condescension and dismissal of my concerns to my 1518 followers
My tweet was then retweeted by two twitter friends within Tasmania with a combined following of 4053 people.
You do the maths Mr Adams, three people in Tasmania with a follow count of 5571 people between them, tweeting the one message.
That is a lot of fairies at the bottom of a lot of gardens.
Yours in despair,
Kim Ponds Rock
Southern Midlands.
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