Carol Altmann – The Terrier
The Keep Lyndoch Living community group has today launched a petition via the State Parliament, asking for the removal of the Lyndoch board.
You can read the full petition and sign it here: https://tinyurl.com/3nwac5nc
Sign it. Share it. Any Victorian resident can sign.
The petition to the Legislative Council asks for the State Government to work with the Federal Government to “take all possible steps” to replace the board with an administrator.
The administrator would remain until a new Lyndoch board can be elected via public nominations.
It has come to this.
Six weeks after more than 400 people gathered in the cold to call for greater transparency from the Lyndoch Living board, there has been nothing of the sort.
And judging by the non-sensical and insulting comments of the board Chair Sue Cassidy on ABC radio last week, the community will remain cut off, despite our many concerns around the care of our elderly and vulnerable.
The board has no interest or intention in engaging with the general community.
Trust in this board is now completely broken.
I hope this petition draws thousands of signatures between now and when it closes on 31 August.
It will then be tabled in Parliament by our local Member of the Legislative Council Bev McArthur, who delivered a statement to the rally on 5 June and who has continued to offer her full support to this cause.
A paper version of the petition will also be available at a public sign-up on the Warrnambool Civic Green next Sunday, 24 July, from 11am to 1pm. I plan to be there to help out.
Copies will also be available for you to take away to gather physical signatures from those unable to sign online.
All of the signatures – online and on paper – will be collated into one total.
Sign it. Share it. The message is clear: this board has to go.
[Disclosure: I assisted Keep Lyndoch Living to lodge this petition with the Legislative Council to ensure it met all the requirements.]