OPINION
When Tasmania's Local Govt. Act was framed in 1993 the very first web page had only gone live on August 6, 1991. That web page was dedicated to information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim Berners-Lee. Since then the world has changed.
That web page ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html . Nowadays, the Internet is ubiquitous, it is everywhere, all the time and all at once.
SECTION 62/2 of Tasmania's Local Government Act 1993 is a clear demonstration of its redundancy. In a kind of a way it it is 'the canary down the coal mine' and it is teetering on it's twig. That it might have anything at all to do with TRUST a MUSEUM and CULTURALlandscaping is really troubling. Sadly, it does everything to do with all this down at TOWNhall7250!
That any of this might have a bearing upon accountability and transparency in a 'public musingplace' it is more than concerning. That it might afford the kinds of follies, the malfunctions, the failures, any paucity in the management of cultural and intellectual property, well that is non-trivial. That the monies involved are such as they are, that is troubling. That the 'trustee' seems not to be caring, thus seemingly unworthy of 'trust', well that is really concerning. That any of this goes on in an paradigm that distances itself from criticism and critique, that too beggars belief.
That the institution's Community of Ownership and Interest has, essentially, been sidelined is signal that the blurring of the functions of governance and management is deeply rooted in a paradigm discretionary accountability – and let's not even talk about transparency!
How the world has changed and it seems in ways that are BUREAUCRATICALLYinconvenient for EMPIREbuiilders in local governance. It seems that the default position is to do with being on a 'good thing', so why entertain change – fundamental change at least.
That any of this might have a bearing upon accountability and transparency in a 'public musingplace' it is more than concerning. That it might afford the kinds of follies, the malfunctions, the failures, any paucity in the management of cultural and intellectual property, well that is non-trivial. That the monies involved are such as they are, that is troubling. That the 'trustee' seems not to be caring, thus seemingly unworthy of 'trust', well that is really concerning. That any of this goes on in an paradigm that distances itself from criticism and critique, that too beggars belief.
That the institution's Community of Ownership and Interest has, essentially, been sidelined is signal that the blurring of the functions of governance and management is deeply rooted in a paradigm discretionary accountability – and let's not even talk about transparency!
How the world has changed and it seems in ways that are BUREAUCRATICALLYinconvenient for EMPIREbuiilders in local governance. It seems that the default position is to do with being on a 'good thing', so why entertain change – fundamental change at least.
IF, as it seems, you have a MACHIAVELLIANstreak the opportunities ‘digital communication’ offers can/might put way too much power in the hands of constituents. Worst of all, it opens possibilities up for PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY where ‘ordinary people’ get an opportunity to have a say and DISRUPT the status quo, that factor even Ronald Regan acknowledged was “Latin for the mess we are in.”
In order that bureaucratic corruption/excess/incompetence can be curbed and governance can be TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE there must be change – fundamental change.
The team at TOWNhall7250 that operates 24/7 and simply lets SECTION 62/2 slip by without challenge have much to answer for. Arguably they do it in order to maintain the status quo’s lingering redundancy while ever they can rely upon their stipend turning up in the bank whenever.
Ronald Reagan hit the nail right on the head when he talked "the mess we're in" and his observation pertains at TOWNhall7250 24/7 right now in 2020.
Just look at the Medieval ANARCHIC nonsense on display with 'council around the table'! It's palpable rubbish in the 21st C and the regalia, garb and symbolism of YESTERyear is everything that Ronald Reagan spoke so elegantly of, is right there for all to see. Sadly, it is almost comedic!
AS FOR THE TRUSTEESHIP OF THE QUEEN VICTORIA MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY THAT IS A SORRY TALE.
In regard to the QVMAG’s governance and everything that entails, these people that make no real attempt to even masquerade as 'trustees'. They sort of talk the talk when required, but make no attempt to walk the walk, yet they collect a stipend and leave everything to the HIRED HELP. They, the hired help, got busy some time ago blurring the functions of governance and management.
Functionally, THE COUNCILLORS HAVE ABDICATED thus any trust invested in ‘The Council’ is SERIOUSLY MISPLACED.
Over time a great many people have invested vast quantities of cultural property, historical treasures and scientific reference material in the QVMAG and its collections. So much so that today the QVMAG COLLECTIONS have a ‘value’ beyond calculation.
It is time to draw the curtain on the all the dysfunctionalism and bring the institution into the 21st Century. Now is almost too late but it can and must be done.
SEE
Ray Norman Feb 2020
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