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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

There's a steady stream of reasons for all this voter apathy

Picture by Sylvia Liber

REPORTS that many people were unaware of the local government elections does not surprise me ("Call to 'do better' on election awareness", Newcastle Herald, 16/9).

Between longer hours of work, a move to streaming rather than live television and an indifference to printed news, this communication deficit was inevitable.

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