What a surreal feeling being removed as Lord Mayor of Hobart is a few hours on!
Same milk carton in the fridge, still a half-finished dessert in the fridge but a post in the Electoral Commission website says that someone else is now the Lord Mayor.
The vision that you have still appears on your website, the aspirations still sit lonely and forlorn on the now redundant official page and life for the majority goes on unaffected and unmarked.
Congratulations to my successor; you beat me well and I hope that you love your new role.
I found it simply the most exhilerating, rewarding and giving role anyone could have had the opportunity to do …
I was humbled by the opportunities it provided to help the vulnerable, youth and the senior citizen.
I will most miss that gorgeous ballroom.
The people were asked and they spoke … as is democracy … but all the same there is a suddeness and a void that failure opens up.
To life then, in all its mysteries …
• Marti Zucco: Voting System is floored and must change
• Philip Cocker, in Comments on Marti Zucco’s Media Release, HERE I agree with Marti. In line with this should be the abolition of the General Manager’s role. Same rules and practices for all levels of Government.
• Barry Jarvis, LGAT: New Era for Local Government in Tasmania
