Oh, woe is me, for  I feel quite undone.

Yesterday, our rates notice for the City of Darwin Council arrived in the mail. Inclusions apart from the Bill itself, include a statement about all the wonderful things that Council has done.

However, there was one glaring omission! In past years the council has included an insert in rates notices that this year was missing. 

What was missing, was a detail about our Lord Mayor and our councillors in the various awards – which now leaves me wondering who they all are, because you never hear from ward councillors from one election to the next – or so it seems.

I haven’t been contacted by a councillor in our ward for at least the last eight or nine years. Who are they and where are they? Without that inclusion reminding me of who our councillors are, I have completely lost touch with them.