Terry Battla Press Release
‘I have had a gutful. While the Lord Mayor and his cronies on Council are more than happy to go on junkets to Italy and Japan dining at five star restaurants and sleeping in luxurious hotels, we are left to fend for ourselves, scrummaging through bins at the back of Coles and forced to sleep in cardboard boxes’.
Download flyer: poshv3-1.pdf
Action Group proclaims ‘Be P.O.S.H not posh!’
LATE last night, as the majority of Hobartians slept, members and supporters of Tasmania’s homeless community letterboxed houses surrounding Hobart City Council Alderman, imploring them to vote for compassion at the upcoming HCC Elections. The group calling themselves People Opposed to Selfish Householders — or P.O.S.H for short — are threatening to letterbox every single resident in Hobart unless the Hobart City Council starts showing some heart in its dealings with the marginalised.
Terry Battla the spokesperson for P.O.S.H. commenting:
‘I have had a gutful. While the Lord Mayor and his cronies on Council are more than happy to go on junkets to Italy and Japan dining at five star restaurants and sleeping in luxurious hotels, we are left to fend for ourselves, scrummaging through bins at the back of Coles and forced to sleep in cardboard boxes’.
Every resident living in the vicinity of Hobart City Council Aldermen was letterboxed. The flyer proclaims that ‘Your local Aldermen voted to protect property prices and misguided prejudices over the basic human right of shelter for the disadvantaged’ and calls on local residents to ‘support the Fitzroy Place development’.
According to Fiona Luklys:
‘A beautiful house in Sandy Bay sits vacant while the establishment of Sandy Bay fight to protect their property values. While they sip on their lattes and worry about living in the best street in the best suburb we are standing in queues fighting over $20 food stamps and wondering where we will sleep that night’.
