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	INNER WEST COUNCIL "PETERSHAM PARK 10-YEAR PLAN Mar 2020-2030"

PPWC Sep 2020 Newsletter - 

"Public Interest cf "Junk mail"-"Public Officials have over-arching obligation to act in Public Interest"

Mon 07 Sep 2020			IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST			Recipient: 61C2xxxx
REF: pPPNI7i1							Y/R: Parks 10-yr Plans 2020-2030

	PUBLIC INTEREST [PBI] COMPARED WITH JUNK MAIL [JML]

This email was sent on Mon 31 Aug 2020 

"Hi xxxxxxxxx - Thank for your 3rd email dated 14 Aug 2020 alleging you have 
received in your post box further "Junk" mail

Your resources may be able to provide an explanation as to how Councils 
purchasing Carbon Credits will reduce waste management and assist with Climate 
Change as nobody including those at Sydney University who conducted the research
for the Inner West Council "to assess carbon emissions resulting from Inner 
West residential Household consumption" can explain the issue

According to Google the definition of "Junk" mail is 

"unwanted or unsolicited advertising or promotional material received through 
the post or sent as email"

We believe we are researching issues in the Public Interest and not delivering "Junk 
Mail - unsolicited advertising or promotional material" (see on-line definitions below)

Examples of the Public Interest issues in our newsletters include:

1	On 19 Jan 2019 the Adelaide Advertiser published an article "Blood of slaves 
	in the bluestone of SA (South Australia)"

	This article identified that the British Government borrowed BPS 20 
	Million in 1835 "The BPS 20 Million in 1835 would equal BPS 16.3 
	Billion today. The debt the British Government secured to pay the slavers 
	was not settled until 2015" - 180-yrs later

	The article also states that the people who loaned the BPS 20 Million 
	were among the largest slave owners who reaped the benefits

2	In August 2019 the Inner West Council published its "Climate + Renewables 
	Strategy [CRS]" as a response to the Climate Emergency - Climate 
	Change Mitigation which the Council had declared in May 2019 along 
	with over 75 other Australian Councils and 286 British Councils

3	"Fig 7: Residential consumption-based emissions in the inner west" p17 of the 
	2019 Innerwest Council Climate + Renewables Strategy has identified 6 
	tonnes per household per year as transport, waste and energy.

	Fig 7 also identifies 41 Tonnes per household per annum as 
	"unsustainable consumption caused through the supply chain of goods 
	and services they (the households) purchase" - this was the research by 
	the School of Physics at Sydney University

4	In 2007-2009 Mosman Council could not explain why Mosman Council was 
	purchasing 253,000 Tonnes of Carbon Credits per annum on behalf of Mosman Rate-payers

Consequently we enquire if you or your company may be interested in sponsoring some of the 
waste management projects identified by members of the Petersham Park Waste 
Collective [PPWC] ?

We look forward to a positive response from you and improving the waste-management and 
Inhabitants' health around all the Parks in the Inner West

There are a number of ways including using Biogas techniques to convert park waste 
including dog faeces into energy and mulch rather than let them (the dog faeces) 
leach into the Water Table

Regards

Clare GARDINER						
Researcher							
PETERSHAM PARK WASTE COLLECTIVE [PPWC]	

B: PO Box 117 Petersham 2049
E: PPWC.rs1@gmail.com
M: {61}(4)4827-8153
W: www.oic.org/SAN/612131


According to the Australian Austlii site "Public Interest" is

THE PUBLIC INTEREST WE KNOW IT'S IMPORTANT, BUT DO WE KNOW WHAT IT MEANS 
Chris Wheeler*** 

The issue 

Acting in the public interest is a concept that is fundamental to a 
representative democratic system of government and to good public administration. 

However, this commonly used concept is, in practice, particularly complex, and 
presents two major obstacles to governments and their public officials acting in the 
public interest: 

o firstly, while it is one of the most used terms in the lexicon of public administration, 
it is arguably the least defined and least understood - few public officials would have 
any clear idea what the term actually means and what its ramifications are in practice. 

o secondly, identifying or determining the appropriate public interest in any particular 
case is often no easy task - as Lyndon B Johnson once said: 'Doing what's right isn't 
the problem. It's knowing what's right'.

The concept - acting in the public interest

The over-arching obligation on public officials

Public officials have an over-arching obligation to act in the Public Interest.

They must perform their official functions and duties, and exercise any discretionary 
powers, in ways that promote the public interest that is applicable to their official 
functions. 

The primary purpose of non-elected public officials is to serve. Serving the public 
interest is one of the four dimensions of this primary purpose, the other three 
dimensions being: 

1  to serve the Parliament and the government of the day (not applicable to all public 
   officials); 

2  to serve their employing agency (where applicable), and 

3  to serve the public as customers or clients. 

Associated with each of these four dimensions of service are various conduct 
standards with which public officials in democratic countries are commonly expected 
to comply, each with its own objective(s). 

Experience has shown that there will be times when a public official will need to 
balance conflicting or incompatible conduct standards or objectives - where the 
public official has to make a decision that will serve one objective, but not another, or 
one more than another. 

While there is some flexibility inherent in the various conduct standards with which 
public officials are commonly expected to comply, the fundamental principle must be 
that public officials must resolve any such conflicts or incompatibilities in ways that 
do not breach their obligation to act in the public interest.

*** Deputy NSW Ombudsman. Chris has over 20 years experience in investigations and 
extensive experience in management and public administration. 

He has worked in State and local government organisations in NSW and Victoria, and 
in private legal practice.

According to Wikipedia the definition of Public Interest is

Main article: Public interest law

"Public interest law" is a term that became widely adopted in the United States during 
and after the social turmoil of the 1960s. 

It built upon a tradition exemplified by Louis Brandeis, who before becoming a U.S. 
Supreme Court justice incorporated advocacy for the interests of the general public into 
his legal practice. 

In a celebrated 1905 speech, Brandeis decried the legal profession, complaining that 
"able lawyers have to a large extent allowed themselves to become adjuncts of great 
corporations and have neglected their obligation to use their powers for the protection of 
the people." [6] 

In the late 1960s and 1970s, large numbers of American law school graduates began to 
seek "relevance" in their work - wishing to have an effect on the social issues that were 
so visibly and hotly debated within American society at that time. 

They defined themselves as public interest lawyers in order to distinguish themselves 
from the "corporate adjuncts" referred to by Brandeis.[7]

Public interest law does not describe a body of law or a legal field; the term was adopted 
to describe whom the public interest lawyers were representing, rather than what matters 
they would work on. 

Instead of representing powerful economic interests, they chose to be advocates for 
otherwise underrepresented individuals".

According to Google the definition of "Junk" mail is 

"unwanted or unsolicited advertising or promotional material received through 
the post or sent as email"

from:	xxxxxxxxx
to:	Clare GARDINER 
date:	14 Aug 2020, 15:40
subject:	RE: Junk Mail

Dear Clare

Are you serious???

My address shouldn't matter - if there is a NO JUNK MAIL sign on the letter 
box, don't deliver said Junk Mail into the letter box. It's that simple!

I received a further copy of your (alleged) 'Newsletter' on the 3rd of August 
and so I followed up my initial request (which you failed to acknowledge), with 
a repeat request. 

Are you trying to say to me that I want to waste my time liaising with you, to 
request you cease doing something I have already asked you to stop doing, 
because I am bored or enjoy these interactions with you?? Please…….

The fact you didn't acknowledge my first email AND failed to take account of 
your (repeated) mistakes by accusing of lying is as preposterous as it is 
laughable.

Like I said above, this is very simple:

Don't deliver your 'Newsletter' to mailboxes that don't want to receive 
Junk Mail - which is what your newsletter is!

Enjoy your weekend

Warm regards"

xxxxxxxxx


This response to the email 15:40 14 Aug 2020 from XXXXXXXXXX has been reviewed 
and approved by the Sponsors of the "Petersham Park Waste Collective [PPWC]"


Stephen GOULD				Peter AXTENS LLB (Retired)
Sponsor Co-ordinator		Legal Officer
OPEN INTERCHANGE CONSORTIUM	SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN]

E: ehn.1a3posgg@gmail.com
M: {61}(4)1600-9468

Below are examples of support emails including:

1	support email received on 16:25 Wed 02 Sep 2020:

Hi Stephen & Clare

Unlike your correspondent I am very interested in the PPWC news and work but 
as a matter of practicality don't you think it would be easier to just not 
deliver the newsletter to the person in question rather than wasting your 
time and energy explaining the difference in junk mail and public interest 
and engaging in correspondence with the person?.  

It is a bit like trying to deal with a troll on social media.

I thank you for all you do on behalf of us all

2	Councillor Fiona
Fri 8/21/2020 1:50 PM

Dear Clare,
 
Thank you for the care you are showing to our world.
 
Kind regards
 

3	Councillor Geoff

Hi Geoff – thanks for your response 
 
Hope it helps explain what we believe is 
happening behind the scenes 
 
regards 
 
 
Clare GARDINER    

Cr Geoff 
Wed 8/19/2020 8:02 PM

It does


I	Other Inner West Council Documents that are part of the CSP2036

	a	Strategies
	b	Plans
	c	Statements
	r	Research References

a	Strategies

Is1 Resourcing Strategy [ReS] 2018-2028 Adopted Jun 2018- PDF File		
Is2 Climate + Renewables Strategy [CRS] - draft On-line		
Is3 Employment and Retail Lands Strategy [EaRLS] - PDF File		
Is4 Housing Strategy [HS] - PDF File
Is5 Integrated Transport Strategy [ITS] Adopted 03 Mar 2020 - PDF File
Is6 Asset Management Strategy [AMS]2018-28 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is7 Workforce Management Strategy [WMS] 2018-22 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File		
Is8 Information and Communication Technology [ICT] Strategy 2018-2022 Adopted Jun 2018 - PDF File

b	Plans

Ip1 Community Strategic Plan [CSP] 2036 Endorsed Jun 2019 - On-line
Ip2 Economic Strategic Development Plan [EDSP] draft - On-line
Ip3 Long Term Financial Plan 2019-2029 Adopted Jun 2019 - PDF File

c	Statements

It1 Local Planning Statement [LPS]		

r	References

R6 2019-01-19 Adelaide Advertiser: Compensation paid to Slave Owners 1835 - 2015 (180 yrs)

R5 2003-2014 Value of Volunteers to Australian State Economies

R4 2014-11-07 IBM "Blockchain" solution for the Diamond Industry Video

R3 1997 Lessons from a Dozen Years of Group Support Systems Research - 4,000 IBM projects

R2 Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Director De Beers 1977-1994 & IBM UK 1972-1995

R1 1987-04-23 RUBAC Automatic eProcess Synchronisation Video

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