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People power

John Bird made a vital point in his column [Issue 1543, December 12], and that is the community voice is the one that can guide the way in a democratic nation. Years of promises by political parties that somehow always end in failure can no longer be acceptable.

Ideologies are out of touch because they exclude too many people. The nonsense of the over-paged newspapers seldom reflect the

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