Twinned Towns

[bah]

At least here in Aus, there's sometimes 'sister cities' in other places in the world.

It's generally accepted its an excuse for local town councilors to make overseas trips that have no other justification in terms of any benefit to those paying for it.

[VampDude]

At least here in Aus, there's sometimes 'sister cities' in other places in the world.

It's generally accepted its an excuse for local town councilors to make overseas trips that have no other justification in terms of any benefit to those paying for it.

So in Australia they do it for no reason whatsoever but to get a FREE trip, that kinda sucks really.

[bah]

Oh they give the same (dubious) reasons like 'good will' etc as they do elsewhere, it's just widely understood (at least amongst all the people I know, of a wide age range) that that's just pollie-speak for free holiday.

Call me cynical but when a programs only effect is that local councilors get paid holidays to the place (with no real agenda and return with nothing of benefit), then I start to feel perhaps that is its purpose for existing.

I doubt its much different anywhere, the pollies from the other countries are pictured in the local paper on their free holiday paid for by their tax/rate payers now and then.

'Politics' is a compound word: 'poly', meaning many, and 'ticks', being blood sucking parasites.