Craig Pickering - Empowering Community Voices

25/06/2026

This page was set up for the SA state election in March 2026.

I will be shutting this page down on July 1st 2026. My personal page will remain - https://www.facebook.com/share/1H69eQRiHk/

21/06/2026

All the money has gone to golf courses, Walker Tower 2, MotoGP.... because apparently feeding egos is more important than feeding people.

These shoes are full of holes and allegedly belong to a child in care. No child under the guardianship of the Chief Executive of the Department for Child Protection should be wearing shoes like this.

DCP & residential care workers have told me that they’ve ‘allegedly’ been told that the Department is broke and they can’t spend money on the kids, surely not? At the same time, volunteer Foster and Kinship Carers continue to be denied financial support for children in their care. Budget blow out - where’s the money ?

When the State becomes a child’s legal parent, it should provide at least the same high standard of care expected of Foster and Kinship Carers. Children in care deserve better.

Workers, Carers, young people, parents, grandparents, and many others are telling me nothing has improved in child protection over the last 4 years. Recently, I was told I was wrong but how can so many people be wrong ?

17/06/2026

This is what One Nation stands for. Division, persecution and nuclear power.

If you're looking for a protest vote look for a decent independent, don't fall for the "we have all the answers" slogan.

Pauline herself only turns up to Parliament around 30% of the time, whilst collecting a full salary and voting against the 25% gas export tax, so she is definitely not serious about wanting to make changes.

She also opposed wage rises, affordable childcare, higher pensions and affordable housing measures. Inform yourself before you vote

A mid-speech protest has marred Pauline Hanson's first address to the National Press Club after decades in politics.

17/06/2026

Council elections being postponed until April 2027 will cause chaos within all councils.

The additional financial cost, including the money already spent creating awareness of the elections and encouraging people to vote (which should be compulsory), will have to be paid by ratepayers again next year. The ECSA budget should reimburse all councils for these costs.

It is also a complete admission of incompetency by the ECSA, and an acceptance of that incompetency by the state government, instead of demanding that the ECSA do its job properly.

The ECSA has had 3.5 years to prepare for an election that involves a mailout and counting postal votes. Has nothing at all been done? What has our tax dollars been spent on? Where was the oversight? Dozens of people are, and were, involved at senior level, not just one.

16/06/2026

: Twenty-seven of South Australia’s 28 government departments have blown their budgets, prompting the Opposition to introduce laws forcing ministers to publicly justify every fiscal failure. 🔗 READ MORE: https://bit.ly/4eqJmVs